Health for a Lifetime

Native American Health Practices

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Participants: Don Mackintosh, David DeRose

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00:45 Hello and welcome to "Health for a Lifetime"
00:46 I'm your host, Don Mackintosh, and today, I'm delighted to have
00:50 Dr. David DeRose with us from what...
00:52 Oklahoma, The Lifestyle Center of America
00:54 That's exactly right; that's home for me
00:56 ...has been for about 4 years.
00:58 Now, I drove down there recently and I saw these signs for
01:02 the Chickasaw Nation.
01:03 What's that all about?
01:04 Well actually, Oklahoma used to be called Indian territories.
01:09 So we have very deep roots in Native American traditions,
01:14 and Native American peoples.
01:16 A number of our staff members have Native American roots.
01:19 One of our board members, I know, has Native American roots
01:23 So, it's something that's really part and parcel of Oklahoma
01:27 Not just that, many different places, of course,
01:29 up the road a little bit, I drove through a town called
01:32 "Wichita" which is an Indian name,
01:34 and the so-called "Chisholm Trail"
01:36 with Jesse Chisholm who spoke about 14 or 15 different
01:38 Indian dialects.
01:41 The only reason I mention that is because today,
01:44 we're going to be talking about Native American health practices
01:48 and I know that there may be many Native Americans watching
01:51 3ABN in those areas, and this will be something,
01:53 of course, especially interesting to them,
01:55 but I think that it can benefit the rest of us too, I hope.
01:57 You've published something on this,
02:00 or you've given some talks on this subject?
02:01 Actually, we presented a paper at the
02:04 American Public Health Association meeting...
02:06 It's the largest meeting of public health
02:10 and preventive medicine professionals.
02:11 Each year this meeting takes place, and in 1999,
02:15 in Chicago, we presented a paper dealing with
02:19 2 Native Americans who came to our program;
02:22 one of them was a tribal leader.
02:24 Both he and his wife had diabetes.
02:28 He also had blood pressure problems, cholesterol problems
02:31 Miraculous things happened when he came to our program
02:34 at the Lifestyle Center of America.
02:36 He is just one, of probably some now 50 or 60 Native Americans
02:41 who have come through our program.
02:42 As I've worked with Native Americans,
02:44 as I've traveled to some of the reservations,
02:46 and presented talks... including just recently
02:49 I was out in Arizona speaking to the medical staff of
02:52 one of the Indian Health Service Hospitals,
02:54 they're excited about what scientific research is showing
02:58 that REALLY SAYS that the program that
03:00 God gave us in His Word is something that ironically...
03:04 ironically to some people, Native Americans had many
03:07 insights into before they even KNEW about the Bible!
03:11 So you're suggesting that maybe their health practices
03:13 are not only scientific when they look at the roots of them,
03:17 they also have a Biblical basis.
03:18 That's right and this SHOCKS people, Don
03:20 I gotta tell you, because in public health circles,
03:23 when you say Native American, you know what they think?
03:25 They don't think "health," they think "disease"
03:27 They think "alcoholism. "
03:29 They think "diabetes. "
03:30 They think... diabetes in Native Americans
03:34 I mean, this is a HUGE problem.
03:36 But what we're finding at the Lifestyle Center of America,
03:38 when Native Americans go through our program,
03:41 they can reverse their diabetes.
03:43 What the research is showing is that 100 YEARS AGO
03:46 ...Well, let me give you an example.
03:49 Have you heard of the Pima Indians in Arizona?
03:51 I haven't but... That's okay What's it called again?
03:54 The Pima Indians... Pima!
03:56 The Pima Indians are probably the most well-studied
03:59 population group in the world when it comes to diabetes.
04:02 You should have heard of them but that's okay
04:04 I know it's a little out of your field.
04:05 In fact, our National Institutes for Health,
04:08 for those of our viewers that don't realize this,
04:11 this is the big RESEARCH ARM of our government.
04:14 They fund research; they do their own research.
04:16 Based there in the Washington, DC area
04:18 they have a branch of the National Institutes of Health
04:23 in Phoenix, Arizona... ... Studying this group
04:26 Studying this group in particular.
04:28 What they found in looking at records over the last 100 years,
04:33 back around the turn of the century, around 1900,
04:36 1 case of diabetes among Pima Indians.
04:40 Wow, so some BIG changes came from some reason.
04:42 In the 1940s... How many? 21 cases
04:47 TODAY, today... 50% of Pima Indians,
04:53 over 35 have diabetes. Amazing!
04:56 If we look at the historical records, Don,
04:58 Native Americans seem to have excellent health before
05:02 European influence, and they were also following a program
05:06 that I believe is VERY, very similar to the kind of program
05:09 that God wants us to follow today to optimize our health.
05:14 And it WASN'T because Native Americans were reading the Bible
05:17 So how did they get this...
05:19 I mean some Christians out there or different people that are
05:21 Christian, you know, and also scientific-type people
05:25 are saying, "Wait a minute, it's one thing to say that they
05:29 have these diseases that have come because of
05:31 Western lifestyle, but it's quite another to say
05:34 that they had some kind of divine revelation that came.
05:37 How can you make a case for that?
05:39 To me, the interesting thing is that Native Americans
05:43 traditionally have had several very important roots
05:47 in their culture.
05:49 One is a strong sense of respect for the Creator
05:53 and for creation.
05:55 A very healthy respect for their bodies,
05:58 and for all of nature... And the environment.
06:00 And the environment, yes. All of nature.
06:03 The laws that God has given us in the Bible
06:06 have that same respect throughout.
06:10 God is desiring to help us to optimize this blessing of life
06:15 that He has given us.
06:16 And even... To me, the argument that I make, Don
06:19 The argument I say to people...
06:21 They say, "Look-it, even if Native Americans didn't have
06:24 a divine revelation of this, and some would argue that...
06:27 I mean, some Native Americans would say,
06:30 "God was leading our people, even though we didn't have a
06:32 Bible, and I believe that God DOES speak through nature
06:36 and He communicates in other ways,
06:38 although the PERFECT revelation
06:40 is clearly through His Son, and through His Word.
06:43 He has been communicating through His spirit,
06:45 through revelation.
06:46 In fact, the book of Romans, right? Romans 1...
06:49 It says that, "Everyone's guiltless cause God has revealed
06:53 His character... where?
06:54 Everywhere in nature... Yeah, in nature, in what He's created
06:57 So here's the argument I make...
06:59 Regardless of where it comes from,
07:01 Native Americans traditionally seem to have some insights
07:05 into optimal healthful living practices...
07:08 But here's the bottom line, this is exciting! Really exciting!
07:12 People today, when I work with them,
07:15 they say, "Dr. DeRose, it's not going to work for me. "
07:17 "I got bad genetics. "
07:19 "My dad had this. My mom had this. "
07:20 "My grandfather had this. "
07:21 "I can't help it. I'm going to get diabetes, heart disease. "
07:24 "I'm going to have amputations, dialysis, stroke... whatever!"
07:26 Native Americans show us that even in a people group,
07:30 that is predisposed to disease, like the Pima Indians,
07:33 they didn't have that kind of disease in 1900
07:37 on their more traditional lifestyle...
07:39 It had changed even by that time.
07:41 Here's the point... No matter what genetic
07:43 hand you've GOT, LIFESTYLE can make a tremendous difference
07:47 And there is ongoing research in Native Americans
07:49 including OUR work at the Lifestyle Center of America
07:52 that says... even if you've got
07:54 Even if you're not a Native American;
07:56 if you've got a lousy hand, genetically dealt to you,
07:58 you can change it, and that's the amazing thing.
08:02 And Native American practices, these are things, many of them
08:07 and I'm not, you know, putting my seal of approval on
08:10 everything that was done by any Native American tribe.
08:13 You know, you can go out and get dream catchers,
08:15 and all the other stuff, even though...
08:16 Well, I'm not here to point, good and bad in everything.
08:22 Even in my cultural traditions, I have European
08:25 cultural traditions.
08:27 We could pick out some things that aren't so desirable.
08:29 But I want to focus on the positives,
08:31 and when I speak to Native Americans, there are so many
08:34 things in their cultural traditions that are POSITIVE
08:37 that help all of us.
08:38 So did they have a basic plant-based diet?
08:41 I mean, you usually think of Indians out there
08:43 on the back of a horse or a buffalo shooting another buffalo
08:47 or this or that, and many times you see these pictures
08:49 and all going and getting the kill.
08:52 Was it a plant-based diet, or
08:54 was there a lot of meat in the diet?
08:55 This was a shock to me, Don.
08:57 When I started working more with Native Americans
09:00 in Oklahoma, and I have to tell you, I really had
09:02 very little experience with native Americans
09:04 before I moved to Oklahoma,
09:06 and to the Lifestyle Center of America.
09:08 But, I started visiting; you know, reading
09:13 historical documents, traveling, speaking on reservations
09:16 like I said... It's amazing!
09:19 Throughout the country, you look at the Coastal Indians
09:22 on the northeast, the southeast...
09:25 You look at the Indians in Wichita, you mentioned
09:27 There is an early account of a Spanish explorer
09:30 in the 1500s, who comes into Kansas.
09:33 You think you know the plains. Yeah... Buffalo, right?
09:36 Indians, bows and arrows, and rifles on horses... Right?
09:40 Catching the buffalo?
09:41 Hey! Those were all European introductions.
09:44 The rifle and the horse?
09:47 Traditionally, what did the Spaniards find?
09:50 They found FIELDS of corn, and squash, and
09:54 an agriculturally-based society in the DESERT in Arizona!
09:59 The whole desert was irrigated.
10:01 The Hohokam people, the ancestors of the Pimas
10:05 had the whole desert irrigated.
10:06 Aerial photographs of the Phoenix River Basin today
10:11 still show shadowy lines of irrigation canals. It's AMAZING!
10:17 Agriculturally based, but then when the Europeans came...
10:20 Yes, some of the Plains Indians shifted their diet
10:23 to a meat-based diet when they could hunt much more
10:25 efficiently with horses and guns.
10:28 Interesting. So now some people that are listening today say...
10:30 "Wait a minute, not only do I disagree" and you already
10:34 cleared up this disagreement, that maybe they're plant-based
10:36 and you've certainly spoken to that eloquently...
10:38 But they might say, "I'm a Christian, and even in the Bible
10:41 it doesn't say I can't eat meat. "
10:42 What do you say to a person like that?
10:44 You know what, at the Lifestyle Center of America, Don
10:47 we never tell anyone they can't eat meat.
10:49 People come to us because they have medical problems,
10:52 and we say, "Look-it, we have you here for MAYBE 19 days"
10:56 That's the longest program we offer... we say,
10:58 "Look-it, we want to see the maximum results
11:00 in the shortest time. "
11:02 And we do use that plant-based diet, a vegetarian diet
11:05 because that, in our experience, and in the medical research
11:08 that we've reviewed, and some of the research we've done,
11:10 that gives quick results.
11:12 When people go back home, I've had Native Americans
11:15 who have gone home, and they follow a total vegetarian diet.
11:19 There was a woman, a Sioux woman;
11:21 they refer to themselves as "Lakota"
11:24 She actually went back to her tribe.
11:27 She had me speak out there, on her reservation,
11:29 and she adapted a total vegetarian diet to all the foods
11:34 that were readily accessible there in her culture.
11:36 Other Native Americans have gone back and they say,
11:39 "Look-it, it's important for me to have some wild game"
11:42 but you know what?
11:43 Wild game is actually very low in fat.
11:46 Buffalo? You have any idea how much fat is in buffalo meat?
11:50 Percentage-wise? You mean wild buffalo meat?
11:55 Yeah, a wild buffalo... wild game.
11:57 Are there even wild buffalos left?
11:59 There are. You know, they're protected like in
12:04 natural protected areas.
12:07 I wouldn't probably eat it because I'd be afraid of
12:10 the disease and different things It's not really inspected.
12:13 Well, I wasn't trying to get you to eat it.
12:15 I was trying to get you to hazard a guess as to how much
12:17 fat is in their tissue.
12:18 What would you say?
12:19 Well let me give you a frame of reference.
12:21 Lean, ground beef, baked, EXTRA lean ground beef,
12:26 only about 60% fat.
12:28 So what do you think buffalo? 40
12:32 15... 15% fat? That's all.
12:36 So, I mean, if you were going to choose meat,
12:38 and you're watching your fat consumption,
12:39 which is very important when it comes to diabetes,
12:42 animal fat seems to be a factor in the development of diabetes.
12:47 Hey, if you're going to eat fat... Yes, wild game is
12:49 really a pretty good choice.
12:50 Deer is less than 20% fat.
12:52 Now, we still have some concerns ... Sure
12:55 because there are other risks... Diseases and different things
12:58 Yeah, sure, like you've mentioned, but STILL
13:00 Native Americans, even the wild game they ate,
13:03 was very low in fat.
13:04 It wasn't the chips. It wasn't the lard.
13:06 This is not what they were raised on traditionally.
13:09 We're talking with Dr. David DeRose
13:11 from the Lifestyle Center of America
13:13 He's been doing some fascinating research on the
13:16 Native American diet, and how it's related to
13:19 God's principles as seen in Scripture,
13:21 but even more interesting, or at least as interesting,
13:25 is that being the same thing that science is telling us today
13:28 And when we come back, we're we're going to look
13:31 a little further at that.
13:32 How can we have the Native American benefits.
13:35 How can we avoid any pitfalls
13:37 that they came across in their particular culture.
13:40 Join us when we come back!
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14:45 Welcome back! We've been talking with
14:47 Dr. David DeRose about Native Americans and
14:51 really about their health practices,
14:52 and this is fascinating research that you've started to uncover.
14:56 Evidently, they had a predominantly plant-based
14:59 food or very low in fat if they were having wild game
15:03 and they had a lot of the health practices that really lead
15:06 to positive things today.
15:09 Now you mentioned that they NOW, as we are living now,
15:16 they have a lot of problems with diabetes,
15:18 and a lot of problems with other illnesses...
15:20 are there any other illnesses besides diabetes
15:23 that they seem to suffer from?
15:24 Well, the group like I mentioned earlier that has been
15:27 MOST well-studied are the Pima Indians,
15:29 and their weight concerns and diabetes as far as
15:33 chronic diseases, and of course the substance abuse issues
15:37 have also loomed large in native populations.
15:41 So these issues, though, are things that affect
15:44 you and I as well.
15:46 Whether we have obesity or diabetes diagnoses,
15:50 we ALL are at risk for this because as we tend to get older,
15:56 we tend to put on weight, and with weight comes
15:58 the risk for diabetes...
15:59 So I think as we talk about these conditions,
16:03 there is something that is applicable to everyone
16:06 regardless of what their cultural background is.
16:08 So we should ALL be thinking about a plant-based diet
16:11 like they have in their cultural past...
16:14 Yeah... I should mention one other thing
16:16 because a lot of people still may be a little skeptical.
16:19 Very interesting study, 1994, the journal "Diabetes Care"
16:23 Researchers from the National Institutes of Health
16:25 there in Phoenix, Arizona, traveled down to Mexico
16:29 and they found another cultural group, Native Americans,
16:33 that were from the same ancestry as the Pimas
16:36 in Arizona; 2 Pima groups basically.
16:39 Pimas in Arizona, Pimas in Mexico
16:42 The Pimas in Mexico were on a very different lifestyle...
16:46 High fiber diet, more active, and, interestingly,
16:52 VERY interestingly, eating meat only about once every month or 2
16:58 Basically, a vegetarian diet.
17:01 What they found in the men, for example...
17:03 Average man in his 40s, in the Pimas in Arizona,
17:07 over 50% of the them had diabetes.
17:10 Less than 10%, well under 10% of those in Mexico
17:14 Yes, they had a genetic predisposition, but LIFESTYLE
17:18 makes a huge difference, and that's the message...
17:20 Whether it's heart disease, or stroke, or diabetes,
17:23 or weight, we can't reverse ALL the genetics,
17:27 but we can make a big difference with our lifestyle...
17:30 And Native American traditional practices gave these people
17:33 tremendous health... that's what the records suggest
17:36 But NOW, it's adopting these Western practices
17:40 that have contributed to this decline in health status.
17:43 This is the same thing that we've seen with these
17:46 studies of rural China, and all these different things
17:48 but the interesting thing about this,
17:50 is that it is right here on this continent...
17:54 What about Native Americans, and their ability to
17:57 say "yes" or "no" to certain substances,
17:59 so-called "temperance?"
18:00 This is REALLY interesting, Don.
18:03 There was a famous French explorer named "le Moyne "
18:07 Jacques le Moyne and he came to what is modern-day Florida
18:11 before the Spanish had come there.
18:14 His party came there, and he observed Native Americans
18:17 really for the first time... these native peoples there.
18:21 And the accounts that he wrote about them are fascinating.
18:24 Not only did he write historical descriptions,
18:27 but he made some beautiful watercolor illustrations
18:30 that were then reproduced by another Frenchman,
18:32 Theodor de Bry into copperplate engravings.
18:35 These have stood the test of time; we have these today.
18:38 I've seen many of these illustrations.
18:40 A number of them show Native Americans eating!
18:44 And le Moyne says things like this...
18:46 These native peoples... he didn't call them native peoples
18:49 I got to tell you, he often used terms that
18:52 Derogatory... Very derogatory.
18:54 He mentions these derogatory terms like... um
18:58 I don't need to mention them.
19:01 But he says things like this, "They never overate"
19:06 "We Christians would be well to learn lessons of sobriety
19:11 from these people that we consider in such
19:15 derogatory terms"... Amazing! It's AMAZING!
19:17 He's saying, look-it, I mean and he said, "These people are
19:20 so long-lived. " They have such long lives
19:23 because they're temperate in their eating. Hmm
19:27 I'll tell ya, it's a powerful lesson, and it's something
19:29 that I believe God wants to have Christians power over.
19:32 As you and I have talked before...
19:35 So how did we get in this predicament of being,
19:37 you know, a Christian nation or a Christian people
19:41 and you're a Christian, and I'm a Christian minister...
19:45 Why is it that so MANY Christians have a problem
19:47 with this very area?
19:49 Why is it that they have used their very religion, it seems,
19:52 in a way that harms themselves?
19:53 Well you know what, this is the irony...
19:55 I talk about like traditional Native American practices
19:58 with Christians... They say, "Hey, I don't want
20:01 anything to do with that. "
20:02 That wasn't Bible-based. You see...
20:06 Or, did you hear who is a vegetarian?
20:08 It's some of these people in these... and they use some
20:12 derogatory terms, NOT Christian.
20:16 So if I'm going to be a vegetarian,
20:18 then I'm not really going to be a Christian
20:20 because the Christians aren't doing that.
20:22 You know what the irony is to me?
20:23 Native Americans do the same thing.
20:26 Let me tell you... this is a parallel explanation,
20:29 parallel situation.
20:31 You go into some Native American communities,
20:34 and what are their traditional foods?
20:36 Fried bread, you know, dough fried in lard.
20:39 Where did the lard and the fat come from? Okay
20:42 That wasn't part of their traditional foods before
20:45 European influence.
20:46 But it has now become their tradition.
20:49 They identify with this as part of their cultural identity.
20:53 Christians do the same thing.
20:55 They say, "You know, we eat meat... this is what we do
20:57 in our church. " This is what we do in our fellowship meals"
21:00 "We're not going to be like these non-Christians,
21:03 and eat like that. "
21:04 What I'm saying is, "Hey, wait a minute, Jesus came to give us
21:08 abundant life...
21:10 If He tells me to change my lifestyle,
21:12 I'm not going to look around and who else is doing it,
21:14 or who's not doing it.
21:16 And what the medical research is showing us,
21:18 and what Native American practices show us in a
21:21 group of people who have the odds stacked against some
21:24 chronic diseases like obesity, and diabetes.
21:27 It shows us that that Genesis diet...
21:30 that that Genesis lifestyle of moderate useful exercise
21:34 that God gave Adam and Eve in the Garden
21:36 of a plant-based diet, of a trusting relationship
21:39 with the Creator, of a stress-free existence...
21:42 these THINGS are things that we NEED today
21:45 and it doesn't matter if indigenous Australian,
21:49 the aborigines are adopting them or practiced them.
21:52 It doesn't matter if the Chinese have done this
21:55 traditionally from a perspective it didn't
21:58 incorporate Christ...
21:59 Many of these indigenous peoples knew their BODY
22:02 better than we Westerners do.
22:04 And who created our bodies? God
22:07 So these people have insights into the way
22:10 the Creator made them, and they lived that way traditionally.
22:14 So why should we DISTANCE ourselves from those
22:17 practices as Christians? Sure
22:18 We should just build on it.
22:20 So, they believe in the Creator,
22:21 they're very much into protecting the earth,
22:25 and their own bodies, and their cultural history.
22:27 You kind of made them aware of this,
22:30 and it's probably an "ah-ha" experience for them.
22:32 They are temperate in terms of these
22:34 things that you've seen in the artwork...
22:36 What about exercise?
22:37 Exercise is very interesting.
22:40 You know, exercise today, for many Americans
22:43 is either something to avoid, or, if a person is exercising,
22:48 it's with great fervor, and religiosity...
22:51 "I exercise 45 minutes a day...
22:53 and I check my pulse, and I see what it is...
22:56 Kind of an obsessive compulsive type thing.
22:58 Now don't misunderstand, I'm not depreciating that,
23:02 but what Native Americans did is
23:03 exercise was a part of their daily life.
23:06 It wasn't something they DID...
23:07 They exercised as part of their life.
23:09 They were physically active people,
23:11 even in some of their ceremonies.
23:13 They were physically active.
23:15 Of dances and all that... Okay
23:17 Not just dances, they even had
23:18 organized sports in the southwest.
23:21 They had ball courts that had both physical fitness,
23:26 and religious connotations... some very interesting parallels
23:30 What I tell people today, not that we've got to build
23:34 Native American ball courts and start playing out there
23:37 in some kind of worship ritual...
23:39 What I tell people, Don, is we need to make exercise
23:44 a part of our daily routine.
23:45 It's just like... you don't get up in the morning and say,
23:48 "Boy, am I going to eat today?"
23:49 Now you could choose to fast... but isn't the given for you
23:53 like it is for me that you're going to eat?
23:54 How about sleep? Is that kind of a given?
23:57 Ah, that's a given!
23:58 What about exercise? You don't have to answer
24:00 but the point is, most Americans They don't even think about it.
24:03 They don't even think about it, it's something they add,
24:05 or maybe if they have time.
24:06 Native Americans with part and parcel the way they lived
24:09 I say, "Hey, all of us need to get on that mode. "
24:12 A day without a meal, a day without sleep,
24:15 a day without exercise... You can choose that,
24:17 but that should be the exception.
24:19 The rule, all of those things should be part of our
24:21 daily activities.
24:23 Did they ever fast, or use natural remedies?
24:25 Definitely... and these are some of the
24:27 most amazing things.
24:28 FASTING was something that was used by almost...
24:31 I mean very pervasive among many Native American tribes.
24:36 FASTING has some profound benefits for diseases like
24:39 high blood pressure, and diabetes.
24:41 Some fascinating things... maybe some time we'll
24:43 have a chance to explore that.
24:45 But other natural remedies... Herbs!
24:49 Herbs are just blossoming in America.
24:53 Today we're starting to realize that these things
24:55 have some unique health-giving properties.
24:58 One of the herbs that Native Americans use was ginseng.
25:02 American ginseng in the year 2000 was studied,
25:06 was published in one of the prominent medical journals.
25:10 Sore throats... No, it was actually for diabetes
25:11 Diabetes? And they found that using
25:13 ginseng could actually LOWER blood sugar levels,
25:17 after a meal.
25:18 We do use some herbs and natural supplements
25:20 at the Lifestyle Center of America,
25:22 in addition to a lifestyle program...
25:24 And this is a tradition that Native Americans espoused.
25:28 You know what... The Lord, Himself, in the Bible
25:32 often used natural substances.
25:34 I think of Hezekiah's healing...
25:36 Yeah, used a fig poultice.
25:39 A lot of people say, "Ah, you know, that was just
25:41 someplace to focus his faith. "
25:43 But I think we should be very careful about how we dismiss
25:48 God's use of illustrations of remedial agencies in His work.
25:53 So all of these things...
25:56 They had a Lifestyle Center of America Native American
26:01 approach... kind of a sanitarium approach to life.
26:04 You know what? They did have that.
26:06 They had a place outside the camp
26:08 where people went for healing based on natural remedies.
26:12 They were also very advanced.
26:14 Throughout many Native American tribes, there is evidence, Don,
26:17 well before European influence, they were doing brain surgery!
26:22 Successful brain surgery.
26:24 How do we know?
26:25 We see surgical holes in skulls
26:29 that show bone regrowth indicating that brain surgery
26:32 was done by Native Americans and it was successful.
26:36 So they not only used the natural, but where it was
26:38 appropriate, apparently they used surgical techniques as well
26:41 They actually had an advanced healthcare system
26:44 that included a sanitarium model...
26:46 People coming away from their village for a time
26:49 to get intensive healing, and that's what we're doing today!
26:52 That addresses the issue... so many people say,
26:54 "We evolved... we have to be hunt or gatherers,
26:57 or this or that, and now are more and more advanced"
27:00 Really, this is the model of the Bible... that people were
27:03 very intelligent, very in-tune with what God
27:06 wanted for their bodies, and their lifestyle,
27:08 and then they fell away.
27:11 This is the plea I'm making...
27:12 Get back to the way God created us.
27:14 He wants to reveal it to us,
27:16 and He wants to give us the power to live that way.
27:18 Fascinating information if you're a
27:21 Native American, or even if you're not...
27:23 And some real principles that can help YOU,
27:25 and, of course, myself, and Dr. DeRose to live healthy
27:29 and to have health that lasts for a lifetime.
27:31 If you'd like more information about this and other
27:33 papers that are published by the Lifestyle Center of America,
27:35 or their programs, please contact them at their website
27:39 which is... www. lifestylecenter. org
27:47 lifestylecenter. org
27:49 or contact us here at 3ABN, and we'd be happy to
27:52 get you in touch with them.
27:53 Thanks for joining us today and have a GREAT day!


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