Participants: Don Mackintosh (Host), Neil Nedley
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000224
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00:01 The following program presents principles
00:03 designed to promote good health and is not 00:05 intended to take the place 00:06 of personalized professional care. 00:09 The opinions and the ideas expressed 00:11 are those of the speaker. 00:12 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own 00:14 conclusions about the information presented. 00:50 Hello, welcome to Health For Lifetime 00:51 and I'm your host Don Mackintosh. 00:53 And today we're joined by Dr. Neil Nedley, 00:57 he is a specialist in internal medicine 01:00 but also really a doctor. A doctor the word 01:03 means a teacher, and he travels around 01:05 the country. And I am thankful 01:07 not only for your medical practice but for 01:10 expanding that, that takes a lot of 01:11 of extra energy. But you felt that call 01:14 of mission and we appreciate 01:15 it here at 3ABN. And then personally 01:18 I have seen and worked with you 01:20 and thanking for that. Well, thank you, 01:23 I am certainly here to help as many as we can, 01:26 and hope this program is helpful to you 01:28 that is that who are watching. 01:30 Now you know you've written several books 01:33 Proved Positive and Depression, the Way Out. 01:38 A lot of these things though come down 01:40 to the subject that we are going to be 01:41 dealing with today which is our frontal lobe. 01:45 The decisions we make concerning 01:47 all this information, so I would say this 01:50 is probably one of the most important programs 01:52 that we could have. Yeah, I think so, it actually, 01:55 the frontal lobe is what really separates us 01:58 from the rest of the animal kingdom. 02:01 You know animals have brains as well, 02:03 and when I was in high school biology class 02:07 I had to dissect a cat. And the last thing we 02:10 got into was the brain and what I was 02:14 surprised at was how small the cat brain was, 02:18 of course in relationship to human brain. 02:20 But what r eally surprised me even more 02:22 than that afterwards I didn't learned 02:24 it at that time, but only 3.5 % of a cat 02:28 brain is in the frontal lobe. 02:31 Not much morality in a cat. 02:34 And what makes us moral creatures actually 02:36 is our frontal lobe. And cat's also don't 02:41 have a very good judgment or analytical ability. 02:44 Got great instinct but you'll be easily 02:46 fool a cat into doing something he or she 02:49 knows she shouldn't do, 02:52 just by the virtue of the fact that the 02:53 frontal lobe is so small. So now all you cat 02:56 lovers out there, I know that you're 02:57 thinking the frontal lobe of your cat is 02:59 much larger than that. 03:01 Then maybe that's true but, 03:03 so I think you have a graphic that kind of 03:05 goes through a number of animals. 03:07 It does, yeah. And talks about 03:08 their frontal lobes. Yeah, the average 03:09 cat 3.5%, dog 7%, a dog's brain is in 03:15 the frontal lobe. Dogs are more trainable, 03:18 they also exhibit more empathy for 03:21 other creatures, for human beings; 03:24 they won't hesitate to murder if they have 03:26 to but they won't torture their victims 03:27 to death like a cat will. Seventeen percent 03:31 of the brain is in chimpanzee of the brain 03:33 frontal lobe in the chimpanzee. 03:36 And that is the most of any other 03:38 animal creature. And then when we get 03:41 to human beings 33 up to 38 percent 03:45 of a human brain is in the frontal lobe. 03:48 And that really is what sets us apart from 03:51 the rest of the animal kingdom. 03:52 And of course it's really hard to describe 03:54 by evolution there too when we don't have 03:56 anything between 17% and 33% double 04:02 the frontal lobe size. So it's just a completely 04:05 a market difference and that's related to 04:08 accountability probably? Yes, and it's also one 04:10 of the reasons why we as human beings worship, 04:14 you know you have to have a frontal lobe 04:16 to be able to worship. Cats and dogs don't have 04:18 any interest in coming to church or worshiping. 04:22 And there is a reason for that, 04:23 their frontal lobe is not capable of that. 04:26 But every human being that has a 04:27 frontal lobe worships. The question is, 04:30 who are they worshiping? 04:32 What are they worshiping? 04:33 And are they really worshiping the true God? 04:37 So what are some of effects of a compromised 04:40 frontal lobe? Well, there are a number 04:43 effects that science has discovered, 04:46 we have a graphics on this as well. 04:49 There is an impairment of moral principle 04:52 that occurs across the board. 04:54 There is also a social impairment, 04:56 it's natural to love your sisters, 04:58 brothers, children, parents, 05:00 if that natural love for family is gone it's 05:02 often due to a frontal lobe problem. 05:05 Lack of foresight, our ability to reason 05:07 from cause to effect as a frontal lobe 05:09 phenomena and our ability to see into the 05:11 future is a frontal lobe phenomena. 05:13 And you can follow your child's frontal lobe 05:15 development by how far they can see into 05:18 the future and how far are they planning 05:20 for the future. Abstract reasoning 05:22 is impaired, our ability to interpret 05:23 proverbs is a frontal lobe function, 05:26 mathematical understanding 05:27 is diminished. Advanced math, 05:29 calculus, algebra, geometry requires 05:32 some frontal lobe function. 05:34 Loss of empathy occurs across the board 05:36 in people with frontal lobe problems. 05:39 And lack of restrain occurs where you 05:41 get into boasting, hostility, 05:43 these type of things you can see that lack of 05:46 restrain exhibited on Sunday afternoon often 05:48 after the touched down is scored. 05:51 And it's clearly when there is a lack of 05:56 restrain emotionally it's due to the inhibition 06:00 or I should say impairmen of the frontal lobe. 06:03 Is it an impairment or is it a choice that's 06:05 just a bad choice? Well, there is impairment 06:09 that can occur, now that impairment 06:11 can be transient, okay, it's not a you know 06:15 permanent and that can be due to the choices 06:17 that we are making that are impairing 06:19 our frontal lobe. And then this 06:21 mathematician you know, high mathematical 06:23 functions, I have know some 06:25 pretty immoral highly trained mathematicians 06:30 as well. So in other words you can have 06:32 a very developed frontal lobe but still decide 06:36 against what it's telling you to do? 06:38 Yes, that's correct and you could be 06:41 blessed genetically with a very good 06:43 frontal lobe and actually even be living some 06:46 lifestyle habits that are conducive to a great 06:49 frontal lobe. But at the same time making poor 06:52 choices that the frontal lobe is really as 06:54 what gives the power to choose. 06:55 It's really the ability to choose our 06:57 own destiny. And people with large 06:59 frontal lobe including Solomon could make 07:03 some very bad choices that are for the 07:07 purposes of self indulgence or 07:09 selfish gratification which actually end up 07:11 impairing for the frontal lobe. 07:13 Okay well, you know, you do a lot of work 07:18 with people that are depressed as well, 07:20 is there any connection between 07:23 the frontal lobe and depression? 07:25 That's one thing that is characteristic 07:27 across the board of virtually every 07:29 depressed individual. We have found this 07:30 out by a way of pet scans, 07:33 we have taken depressed individual 07:35 and given them a pet scan. 07:38 And the pet scan is like a Doppler 07:40 weather scan. The brighter the color 07:43 the hotter the activity, 07:44 and what we find out in virtually every 07:46 depressed patient is that they have a 40%. 07:49 At least a 40% decrease in circulation activity 07:52 of the frontal lobe of the brain. 07:54 I think we have a picture of that as well. 07:55 Yes, and there is compelling evidence that 07:58 it's the frontal lobe impairment that produces 08:02 the depression. First, the frontal lobe goes 08:05 down in circulation and then depression occurs, 08:07 there is a pet scan interestingly that's the 08:10 same patient, depressed. And you can see 08:13 the entire brain is depressed. 08:15 But the biggest before and after difference 08:17 after they have recovered from depression. 08:20 And this patient recovered as a result of 08:23 cognitive behavioral therapy and a change 08:25 in diet and lifestyle. Okay. And so although 08:30 some of the drugs will also improve frontal lob 08:31 function transiently. But here we have 08:34 the greatest before and after difference 08:36 being in the front of the brain that's 08:37 the top portion of the brain that's the cross 08:40 section of the brain there. 08:41 And so the front portion our top of the brain. 08:44 Is really lit up there. Is lit up and that is a 08:47 mark difference in frontal lobe function 08:49 after they have recovered from depression. 08:51 That's interesting, so you said that some 08:53 of the medications actually will increase 08:55 frontal lobe function transiently 08:57 like which kind? Well, the selective 08:59 serotonin reuptake inhibitors drugs 09:02 like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, 09:06 Effexor by improving the serotonin level. 09:09 Serotonin is used extensively in the 09:11 frontal lobe. You'll get an increase 09:14 in activity of the of certain areas of the 09:18 frontal lobe , it's not comprehensive 09:19 improvement of the frontal lobe but 09:20 there are certain sub unit areas of the 09:22 frontal lobe that are improved as a result 09:24 of these drugs. So you can do that 09:26 through diet as well. Yes. And we'll probably 09:31 talk about that but another thing you 09:32 mentioned here is just passing was 09:34 that this patient was depressed but then 09:36 came out of that as a result of cognitive 09:39 behavioral therapy, what's that all about it? 09:41 That's truth therapy, that analyzing 09:44 our thoughts for distortions. 09:45 You know those Ten Commandments in the 09:47 Bible and there's ten ways of 09:48 distorted thinking. And if we are trained 09:52 the ten ways of distorted thinking we can 09:55 analyze our own thoughts for 09:57 distortions in them. And people with 09:59 depression have habitual distortions in their 10:02 thought processes across the board. 10:05 And so if they can recognize the distortions 10:07 in their thought and then instead line up 10:09 their thoughts with what's accurate. 10:11 And this at first requires them to write 10:13 down the accurate thoughts so when they 10:14 are tempted to thin the inaccurate or 10:18 distorted belief, they will then think an 10:21 accurate thought in its place. 10:23 And once they do that, that improves 10:25 frontal lobe function. Okay, and that's not 10:27 to say that everything is all on your head, 10:29 I know your book depression the way out, 10:31 you have all kinds of hit categories and that's 10:34 just one of many. That's correct. 10:36 And by the way those that are watching, 10:38 you can go to the Dr. Neil Nedley's website 10:40 www.nedleypublishing.com or doctornedley.com 10:45 either way. And you can get a hold of 10:47 that book and it gives an overall comprehensive 10:49 view of that. What about sugar in the brain? 10:53 Sugar actually impairs frontal lobe function, 10:57 large amounts of sugar in the diet will impair 10:59 frontal lobe functions in school age children 11:02 in particular. And this was first studied in 11:06 Iowa that man has been studied in a 11:09 number of places. And what sugar does, 11:12 the brain actually utilizes carbohydrates; 11:14 carbohydrates are good for the brain generally. 11:19 But the simple carbohydrates when we 11:20 have sugar, the body thinks that we've eaten 11:23 a large amount of food, grains, 11:25 nuts and vegetables because that's normally 11:26 where we get our natural carbohydrates from. 11:29 And so it begins to crank out a tremendous 11:31 amount of the insulin and as a result the 11:34 blood sugar then goes down within 11:36 twenty minutes, thirty minutes lower 11:38 than it was before we ate the sugary substance. 11:41 And so hypoglycemia occurs. 11:43 Once that hypoglycemia occurs, 11:47 the frontal lobe is impaired, 11:49 and even after we snack to bring it up 11:51 the child might feel little shaky or a 11:53 little hungry like the side of the snack it can 11:55 take 4 hours for the brain to fully 11:57 recover from that. And so if they have 12:00 to memorize the material they can get 12:02 the answer right, the memory is not 12:04 effected but if they have to think about what 12:07 they have memorized and be able to problem 12:10 solve based on the facts that they have, 12:12 they're gonna miss the question vast 12:15 majority of the time simply by getting too 12:17 much sugar in the diet. You know in your 12:19 book Prove Positive on your chapter on sugar 12:22 I remember reading when I first got the 12:24 book about how someone eats a candy bar 12:27 and takes a large amount of time for them 12:30 to come back and to be able to think like 12:32 you've said. So if you're a parent, 12:35 you're a mom, you're a dad, 12:37 you're a grand parent, probably grand parent 12:40 especially because they seem to give 12:42 things to kids that maybe parents wouldn't. 12:46 My grandmother does that, not my grandmother, 12:48 I should say my mother has a tendency to do 12:51 with my own children. And, and, and 12:53 basically you have just taken them out 12:55 of the game. Yeah that's right, 12:58 it's like driving a car with a faulty fuel pump, 13:00 you know sometimes you press on the gas 13:02 and it's there and other time you press 13:03 on and it's not there. And these kids 13:06 need their frontal lobes. 13:07 Now you know I have to say I got three 13:09 kids and I know that this is true I mean 13:12 as I have learned what you have said 13:13 you know. I gotta to say some time I have 13:17 made a bad decision as being a leader of 13:19 the family it's alright that you can have that. 13:20 But then I pay for it over the next four 13:22 hours because I can't reason with the children 13:25 and different things. And they are not 13:27 bad kids, alright, they just don't have 13:29 a frontal lobe at that particular moments. 13:32 That's right. What else should we avoid if we 13:36 wanna have optimal frontal lobe functioning? 13:39 Well, there's a number of other foods that 13:41 can actually cause some significant impairment 13:44 of the frontal lobe. One of those 13:45 actually is cheese. Cheese. Yeah. Well we 13:50 need to talk about this more, 13:51 we are talking about Dr. Neil Nedley. 13:53 He probably go oh no cheese but join us 13:56 when we come back we'll talk more about it. 14:01 Are you confused about the endless 14:03 stream of new and often contradictory 14:05 health information, with companies trying 14:08 to sell new drugs and special interest 14:10 groups paying for studies that spin the facts, 14:13 where can you find a common sense approach 14:15 to health? One way is to ask for your 14:17 free copy of Dr. Arnott's 24 realistic 14:20 ways to improve your health. 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We've been talking about 15:05 that which separates us from the animal 15:07 kingdom that being our frontal lobes. 15:09 And we have learned that there are some 15:11 things that we can do to enhance or actually 15:15 very much minimized our frontal lobe function. 15:18 Dr. Neil let's just review that a little bit, 15:19 we've talked about eating sugar and we were 15:25 introducing the idea of eating cheese. 15:29 Cheese has tyramine in it, 15:31 and tyramine actually can cross the blood-brain 15:38 barrier and get into the cells and it's an 15:40 false neurotransmitter. And so it can stimulate 15:45 cells that were never meant to be stimulated 15:48 and so it can confuse the brain, 15:50 can confuse the frontal lobe. 15:52 And it's one of the reasons why, 15:54 why cheese has been associated with a 15:56 decline in frontal lobe function. 15:59 Now the cheeses like cottage cheese won't do 16:01 this but it's the hardened cheeses, 16:06 that have the tyramine in it, 16:07 that can produce this effect. 16:09 And I think we have a graphic that also 16:11 shows that not only is tyramine found in 16:14 cheese but also. Yeah, in wines and 16:17 also rich foods, very rich foods will have 16:20 tyramine in them as well. And it's one of the 16:22 reasons why rich food should be avoided. 16:25 So really if you have an enemy you don't 16:28 want them to think straightly just send 16:29 them over a big double cheese pizza. 16:32 That's right, particularly before the meeting, 16:36 if you're wanting to beat them up in 16:37 the meeting. And they will not be able 16:40 to have the higher level frontal lobe 16:43 function? Not the critical abstract 16:45 thinking level, they'll be able to you know 16:47 think well enough to drive a car and to 16:49 do routine activities and no problem as far 16:53 as the real complex things. 16:56 It can cause a decline, they won't be able 17:00 to think that on a level of principle sometimes 17:02 when those principle challenge particularly 17:05 their desires. So how long does it take, 17:09 you know you send the double cheese 17:10 pizza over, you are trying to take 17:12 your enemy out, ho long does it take? 17:14 Oh! Thirty minutes, thirty minutes, 17:16 as the effect starts, yeah, it can last 17:18 several hours. Alright, what about other foods? 17:22 What about say, you know we often 17:24 talk about fruits, nuts, grains and 17:26 vegetables being the. 17:28 They're the ideal source of the brain, 17:29 okay, yeah, they have the complex carbohydrates 17:32 in there, carbohydrates with fiber that's 17:35 not gonna produce the big ups and downs 17:36 in blood sugar. And so they're very 17:39 good for our frontal lobe function and brain 17:42 function. Meat on the other hand is deficient 17:44 in carbohydrate high in fat, high in protein, 17:46 virtually no carbohydrates and thus 17:48 it's not best food for the brain. 17:51 In addition it can stimulate the pituitary 17:53 gland and that siphons blood from the front 17:57 top portions of the brain down to the lower 17:59 brain functions and that can cause an 18:01 imbalance of the brain as well. 18:03 So why would God ever allow meat then? 18:08 Well, when there was nothing else around 18:11 after the flood, you know, 18:12 you really didn't have the plant foods there, 18:15 they needed to survive first of all. 18:19 So, it's kind like of emergency rations. 18:20 Yeah, emergency rations and that's really 18:23 the only time meat should be thought of really 18:27 as far as something to persevere life. 18:31 Interesting, what about television? Well, 18:36 television does have, entertainment 18:38 television reduces the frontal lobe activity. 18:43 So 3ABN is okay, 3ABN is okay because 18:46 it doesn't do the rapid scene of 18:47 reference change. The average 18:49 entertainment program changes its scene of 18:52 reference every three seconds and so that 18:55 rapid scene of reference change will actually 18:58 cause a hypnotic effect on the brain. 19:00 And it will shut down the frontal lobe functions. 19:03 And so the individual will no longer be able to 19:05 categorize things appropriately, 19:08 he won't be able to put things in their 19:10 appropriate subsets. He can laugh or cry 19:12 with the scene and can actually remember 19:16 the memory still working so that if he sees 19:18 the re run he'll notice that you know he saw 19:20 that years earlier. But he's no longer able to 19:24 critically analyze the material coming in. 19:26 So the rapid change of reference throws the 19:30 mind off, it gets the information that the 19:32 people put to the video together want you 19:34 to have the DVD but you can't critically 19:36 analyze it. That's right and they do it so 19:38 that you can stay focus on the set, 19:40 you know without that rapid scene of 19:41 reference change, you know if you ever 19:42 seen c-span for instance just one camera view, 19:46 never changes. Now it's abnormal to stare at 19:50 a set where it's not changing the persons 19:53 diverting their eyes continually they're 19:55 listening to c-span. They may be and their 19:58 frontal lobe can be fully intact when they 20:01 are listening to c-span they can disagree or 20:03 agree with the presenter and learn new 20:05 information. Their frontal lobe 20:07 can be highly affected and can be enhanced 20:10 actually by the c-span presentation. 20:13 But the brain needs time to be able to do 20:15 that when a scene of reference changes 20:17 every three second the frontal lobe gives up, 20:21 it's too fast for it to be able to do the subset 20:24 information so it shuts down. 20:27 Certain lot like commercial as well 20:29 I mean they get their information across 20:30 but it's always they're fast. Yeah they are 20:32 bombarding you with scene of reference 20:34 changes and they are doing that on purpose. 20:38 What about music, is there a kind of music 20:40 that's better for the frontal lobe 20:42 then another? Yes I have the opportunity 20:45 of studying music therapy under the mother 20:47 music therapy Dr. Wania McClain. 20:51 And this study was actually done to 20:54 University of Florida not by her but by others, 20:57 music psychotherapy in which people are 20:59 encouraged to reflect on their past, 21:00 present, future while listening to classical 21:03 music improves mood and reduces stress. 21:07 Six sessions of classical musical therapy were 21:09 held over a 12 week period in 21:11 23 to 45 year olds. These subjects showed 21:13 on improved scores on test of overall mood. 21:16 They reported feeling less depressed and their 21:20 cortisol levels improved, so there were objective 21:23 levels of improvement. And this was a study 21:27 that was a randomized prospective trial, 21:30 in other words it was a gold standard study. 21:33 And the only type of music that has been 21:35 shown to be beneficial in that regard is 21:36 traditional classical music. Okay. 21:39 These people were young people, 21:40 they had never seriously had been exposed 21:42 to classical music it wasn't because they 21:44 enjoyed it. But just because you might 21:47 enjoy alcohol and I don't enjoy alcohol. 21:51 No matter if you enjoy or not alcohol is gonna 21:54 suppress the frontal lobe of the brain. 21:56 And the same is true with certain types of music 21:59 whether you enjoy it or not has very little 22:01 to do with how it's suppressing or enhancing 22:05 the frontal lobe of the brain. 22:07 And some types of the music particularly 22:09 the syncopated rock n' roll music also 22:11 produce that hypnotic effect which decrease 22:14 the frontal lobe function. 22:16 And that's why in many of these clubs where 22:20 some pretty raucous entertainment is done 22:23 that music and alcohol is part of it because 22:25 the frontal lobe has to be significantly 22:27 suppressed for people to start to behaviorally 22:31 act in ways that they would never act 22:33 otherwise. Now, you know we used the term 22:35 classical music but I mean there is some 22:39 very bad classical music too, you know, 22:42 you have people like some of the composers 22:47 that were around world war two. 22:48 And their music would be considered 22:50 classical but it was very depressive. 22:53 Yeah, that's why I say traditional 22:54 classical. Okay, traditional. Yeah, 22:56 a lot of the contemporary classical doesn't 22:58 have the rhythm, doesn't really have 23:00 any melody. And it pretty haphazard and 23:04 random and that music is not been shown 23:07 to be beneficial. Traditional classical 23:09 music is where most of our hymns are derived from. 23:13 It in fact you know there is something 23:15 about classical music that's worth mentioning. 23:18 There are more varieties of traditional 23:21 classical music than they are all other 23:24 musics combined. Well good, 23:26 so at least it's available. Lot of people 23:28 think that classical music means the 23:30 funeral music because that's the only time they 23:32 have ever heard it in their life that's the 23:34 time most people are likely to hear 23:36 classical music 'cause when they go to a 23:37 funeral. But there is all sorts of varieties 23:41 of classical music. There is very lively 23:44 classical music, there's march music, 23:47 there are all sorts of classical music for 23:49 every mood and of course that's what we 23:52 promote actually on our site is these classical 23:56 CDs for different types of situations. 23:59 And it can be thoroughly enjoyed. 24:02 Interestingly the average vegetarian 24:04 has more variety in his diet than the 24:07 average meat eating American. 24:09 And that is paradoxical to the meat eater 24:12 because they think that you are cutting 24:14 out whole aspect of the diet and so your 24:15 diet is gonna be more restrictive. 24:18 But it's more ample. Its greater variety 24:21 and actually better taste. 24:23 And so life can be benhanced sometimes 24:27 by restricting a life so to speak. 24:30 And this is the paradoxical thing to 24:31 human beings here we're restricting music 24:34 to the traditional classical venue. 24:36 But then it opens up a variety and an 24:38 enjoyment that can't be found in the other forms. 24:41 So, as a physician if someone deals with 24:43 the depressed patients and deals with 24:46 Frontal lobe hits all the time, 24:47 your recommendation no matter what age 24:48 you are is classical music, 24:51 traditional classical music. Traditional 24:52 classical music enhances frontal lobe function, 24:55 it improves depression and even in normally 24:58 healthy people it enhances their mental 25:00 performance. How do we take care of our 25:03 frontal lobes? Well, we have a graphic 25:06 that summarizes how we can best take care 25:09 of our frontal lobe, we must protect it 25:11 from mechanical injury. That means wearing 25:14 the seat belt, thatv means not participating 25:16 in sports where there is high likelihood 25:18 of head injury. We must supply it with good 25:21 oxygen that means deep breathing and exercise, 25:24 we must give it good nutrition by eating 25:26 the foods that are healthiest for the brain. 25:29 And we must exercise it like a muscle if we 25:32 don't use it we gonna lose it. 25:34 And that means we need to contemplate 25:35 on moral and abstract themes. 25:37 We must control the inputs what's coming 25:39 into our brain. Making sure we're avoiding 25:41 those things that are gonna suppress 25:43 frontal lobe function like the entertainment 25:44 TV and the forms of music. Alright, 25:47 and also sexual stimulation outside a 25:50 marriage will suppress frontal lobe activity. 25:52 And then we must prevent or control diseases 25:54 that affects us and that means even like 25:57 high blood pressure over time can cause 25:59 us a decline in frontal lobe function, 26:03 we must prevent that. You know some of 26:05 the things you've said, but there is a man, 26:08 I don't, I don't want to change that 26:09 but that's really not the question, 26:11 the question is whether not you will really 26:13 want to have the optimal function of 26:15 your frontal lobe. Yes, and I ask them 26:18 a series of questions that we have up 26:21 on the screen, do you want to be 26:22 more intelligent? Do you want to be 26:24 more analytical? Do you want to make 26:26 better decisions? You want to have a 26:28 greater capacity to empathize with others? 26:32 Do you want to have a greater or better 26:35 discernment? Do you want a greater 26:36 ability to see into the future and you want 26:39 to have a greater ability to overcome 26:41 an addiction? And do you want to 26:43 be more open to understanding and doing 26:47 the will of God and have a greater power 26:49 to follow your conscience? 26:50 If you answer yes to any of those questions 26:53 you really need to review what you're doing 26:55 is part of your habitual life and to see 26:59 what you can do to instead of detracting 27:01 from frontal lobe function and enhancing 27:03 frontal lobe function because it will 27:05 allow you to do all of those things that we 27:07 have mentioned. That is the key text 27:08 that you really like concerning this 27:11 would you share that with us? 27:12 Paul wrote it in Roman chapter 12, 27:15 "I beseech you therefore brethren, 27:16 by the mercies of God, that ye present 27:18 your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, 27:21 acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable 27:24 service." He goes on to say, 27:26 "Be not conformed to this word: 27:27 but be ye transformed by the renewing 27:30 of your mind, that ye may prove 27:31 what is that good, and acceptable, 27:33 and perfect will of God." 27:35 This is not extremism Paul says it is your 27:37 reasonable service but he says be willing 27:40 to sacrifice and on the surface it seems 27:44 like a sacrifice but God never asks us 27:46 to do anything that is not for our best good. 27:49 Thank so much for joining us today. 27:51 Thank you Dr. Nedley for being with us. 27:54 We hope that as a result of today's program 27:56 you have health that lasts for a lifetime. |
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