Participants: Don Mackintosh (Host), Dr. Neil Nedley
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL00234B
00:01 Welcome back we been talking with Doctor Neil Nedley
00:03 and we talked in the first half Doctor Nedley about 00:06 caffeine and those high caffeine drinks and if you miss 00:10 that you need to come back and watch that program again. 00:12 It had very vital and important information and then 00:15 we talked about the importance of vitamin D as it relates 00:18 to longevity colorectal patients, or cancer patients. 00:22 How common is colorectal cancer, isn't it like number one 00:25 and number two? - it's number two is far as cancer 00:28 deaths are concerned. 00:29 What you said was is that if you have a high level of 00:32 vitamin D, which you can get either from supplements or 00:34 from sunlight, if you increase that you decrease your 00:38 risk of dying even after getting colorectal cancer. 00:41 Exactly. - so it is important to know what your level is 00:45 you said there was a specific blood test, what was it? 00:48 25 hydroxy vitamin D level. Really you would like to be 00:52 50 or above on that level. 00:54 25 to 50 you might be in the medium part, but really to be 01:00 in the top fourth people in America you need to be 50 and 01:04 above and that will extend your life span significantly. 01:07 If you are below 25 that is when you need to start taking 01:10 supplements in addition to sunlight. 01:12 So how old should you be when you find out what your 01:14 vitamin D is? Really that is a good question. 01:18 Researchers are trying to get consensus on this. 01:22 I don't think it's ever too early to get 01:24 a vitamin D level. 01:25 It is so related to so many health giving benefits 01:29 that even if you are coming in for a physical as a kid, 01:34 if you get a 25 hydroxy vitamin D level it could save 01:38 you a lot of problems down the road by getting 01:41 enough of that vitamin. 01:42 You know both of us have been associated with the NewStart 01:45 program at Weimer in California. 01:49 One of the acronyms they have is nutrition, exercise, water, 01:53 sunlight, it is very important then? 01:57 Sunlight is very important, it is actually emerging as 02:01 possibly as important as virtually everyone of those 02:07 other natural remedies such as nutrition and exercise. 02:10 There are studies actually indicating that vitamin D may 02:14 be just, if not more important than regular physical 02:18 exercise. - so you probably could do both because you 02:21 are out in the sun while exercising. 02:24 Yes it, it is not that you should choose one or the other 02:25 really you can do both and should do both. 02:27 Well let's move on to another study that you mentioned which 02:31 is hip fractures and recovery from them as it 02:35 relates to social relationships. 02:37 Yes, and we have a graphic here in regards to that. 02:41 It actually shows that contact with friends is tied to 02:47 hip fractures recovery and I thought this was 02:50 quite an interesting study. 02:52 Elderly adult who fracture their hip have better 02:55 odds of surviving if they have a little help from their 02:58 friends, as the study suggests. 03:00 Researchers found that among a large group of elderly hip 03:03 fracture patients, those who had regular contact with 03:06 friends in the weeks before the injury were more likely 03:09 to be alive two years later. 03:11 What about friends verses family? 03:13 Well they did look at that, family is important as well. 03:16 If you have close relationships with your family it does 03:19 help, in extends your life as well. 03:22 But this study showed it is actually more important to 03:25 have close friends, and this wasn't a very high bar as 03:33 close friends were concerned. 03:35 What they did is that they took a look at patients who 03:37 had seen or phoned a friend at least once a day before 03:41 the hip fracture and compared it with people 03:45 who have hip fractures and hadn't phoned a friend or 03:47 a least talked to them on the phone, or had contact with 03:52 them on a daily basis. 03:54 They found that those people were five times, five times 03:58 more likely to die than those who had daily contact 04:03 with friends. 04:04 So it's probably not a good time to get new friends 04:06 after you have a hip fracture, get your friends now. 04:09 Get the friends now. 04:10 Try to avoid the hip fracture to begin with, but this is 04:14 an interesting study is showing social relationships. 04:17 Yes and we are social beings and more studies are 04:21 being done on social support and social relationships. 04:24 We find that they've play a role improved mental health 04:28 improves physical help, but I never really anticipated 04:31 looking at hip fractures. 04:33 Let me ask you one other question about this study and 04:36 then we want to go on to another study. 04:37 Did they look at whether or not the person called their 04:42 friend or did the friend call the person? 04:44 No, they didn't. - so what I would say is if your 04:47 friend had a hip fracture call them, go and see them 04:50 and make them know they have a friend. 04:52 Visitation to your family members what you would say 04:55 is very vitally important. - that's right. 04:58 A few years back I looked at another study of ministers, 05:01 I was Pastoring at the time and it just showed the impact 05:04 in this particular study of a Pastor going to visit 05:07 someone and touching the patient and praying with them. 05:10 How powerful that was, this seems to be the same kind of 05:13 thing, same kind of things. 05:15 It is important to go visit the people and the sunshine 05:19 band's of the hospital and take some people to sing to 05:21 them and talk to them and not just once but everyday touch 05:24 bases. - yes that is right you can definitely help 05:28 your friends and acquaintances that way. 05:30 Well let's go on, pregnancy and high vegetable and 05:35 omega-3 intake verses allergies in children. 05:38 Yes we have a study published just recently from the 05:43 Journal Thorax in June of 2008. 05:46 We have a graphic on this showing the Mediterranean diet 05:49 in pregnancy does help to reduce allergies in pregnant women. 05:56 Women who ate a Mediterranean diet while pregnant stave 06:00 off not only allergies but asthma in their children. 06:04 So it not only helps them it also helps their children 06:08 to not develop allergies and asthma. 06:11 This is a problem that is increasing in America. 06:12 There is a lot more allergies in children today than there 06:15 used to be a couple generations ago. 06:17 So the Mediterranean diet would be like, Hummus and taboli 06:20 olive oil, what would you say? 06:27 Well they actually took a look at the ingredients 06:30 of it, vegetables, fruit, whole grain breads, cereals, 06:35 legumes, nuts, olive oil and omega-3 foods. 06:39 Omega-3 foods can include things like flax seed, walnuts, 06:45 or healthy fish, clean fish that are higher omega-3. 06:49 This is not really a low-fat diet, it's a low trans fat 06:53 low saturated fat diet, but it does have fats that are 06:57 omega-3's. - Right and the people on this diet ate less 07:02 meat, less white meat, very infrequently ate red meat if at 07:07 all and had low consumption of dairy products and eggs. 07:09 So was much more of a plant- based regime of Mediterranean 07:15 diet that seem to produce the benefit. 07:17 So if you don't want your kids to get allergies eat the 07:20 Mediterranean diet or basically almost a Genesis 1:29 07:24 diet, the diet that is in the early part of the Bible. 07:27 Another study, or do you have anything else on that? 07:30 No, it just made a significant difference. 07:33 Okay another study that you mention was longevity 07:37 as it relates to exercise. 07:39 Yes and this was a study in regards to running and 07:44 it took a look at those 50 and older. 07:46 So those that are starting to press 50 take note. 07:51 If you take up running they significantly improve their 07:57 chance of living a long time. 08:00 So in other words 50 years old, you haven't run before 08:04 and you hear this today and say I'm 49 and 50 tomorrow 08:07 should they just go out and start running or check with 08:11 their Doctor, what should they do? 08:12 It really depends whether you have a history of heart 08:16 problems or not or if you are at risk for heart problems. 08:19 If you don't have a family history of heart disease, 08:22 you don't have high cholesterol, high blood pressure 08:24 you don't really need a stress test, just go out 08:27 starting running program, just start judiciously lighter 08:31 at first and then build up where you are doing more 08:35 miles and up to an hour a day or a least a half hour or 08:38 so isn't really should be the goal. 08:40 If you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, 08:43 high family history of heart problems, it's a simple 08:45 thing to get a stress test. 08:46 Go to doctor and get the stress test and prove that 08:49 you're going to be fine on this running program. 08:51 If so it will definitely increase your risk 08:55 of a long life. 08:57 So again out there Weimer in the NewStart program they 09:01 have like 15 miles of trails and that is exactly what 09:05 they said, they do the stress test. 09:07 People that haven't walked or run, or anything even for 09:11 years, once they get that simple okay they start walking 09:14 and it is amazing what happens in 10, 15 or 19 days. 09:18 A completely turns people around, this study seems to be 09:22 indicating that the impacts of running go far beyond the 09:25 things we normally talk about which is like losing weight, 09:29 and all these other things. 09:30 One of the other types of studies bringing out? 09:32 Well it is bringing out reduced risk of heart disease 09:35 significantly, reduced risk of cancer which is also 09:39 significant, and even a reduced risk of neurological 09:42 diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. 09:44 Did they say why that happens? 09:46 I'm not sure of all the reasons, exercise actually does 09:52 produce some endorphins and it does produce some 09:56 anticancer chemicals. 09:58 Even interferon is produced with vigorous exercise, 10:01 interleukins are produced and these things can help 10:04 prevent cancer and maybe even help with heart disease. 10:07 Of course exercise improves insulin resistance and we 10:10 know that is going to reduce the risk of heart disease. 10:13 It also of course is going to help high blood pressure, 10:16 if you have high blood pressure one of the best therapies 10:18 is to go out and get on a vigorous exercise program. 10:22 So what is vigorous and what is not vigorous? 10:24 Vigorous will be running, this study was done on running. 10:27 Not vigorous would be just a mild stroll in 10:30 the park you know. 10:32 So some people say intermittent training, or IT, is this true 10:36 running to you a little bit and rest, run little bit and 10:39 rest. - yea run and then walk really can be 10:43 helpful, we went necessarily recommend complete rest but 10:46 running an then when you are to the point of exhaustion 10:49 go ahead and do a brisk walk for maybe 40 seconds, 10:53 less than a minute and then go ahead and go back to 10:56 running for again less than a minute. 10:58 This is a good way to start out your running program. 11:01 As you get more fit you can run for longer periods of 11:04 time and walk for less periods of time. 11:06 You just keep building up and building up. 11:09 Building up to no more than 8 miles a day. 11:11 No more than 8 miles day? That is interesting I was 11:15 studying the life of Christ at one point and in this 11:18 particular study they took all of the distances that 11:21 He had walked or whatnot with His disciples and the 11:24 average amount that someone would walk in those days was 11:27 like 21 miles day. - yeah you can walk more 11:31 than you can run. 11:33 Not running these miles. 11:35 What happens is when you get more than 8 miles 11:37 you increase the risk of orthopedic problems. 11:39 So you are going to end up with knee surgery, ankle 11:42 surgeries, stress fractures all those types of things. 11:45 Which cuts down the amount of time you can run. 11:47 Exactly. - we've been talking with Doctor Nedley and 11:50 talking about some fascinating things on this program. 11:54 Everything from high caffeine drinks to looking at 11:58 vitamin D, to look at what foods to eat during pregnancy 12:02 to decrease the allergies in your children, and looking 12:06 at of course now running and longevity. 12:08 Doctor Nedley we are glad you are there any 12:11 final thoughts as we close? 12:12 Well what that study actually showed was after 15 years 12:17 15% of the runners had died, and those who were not 12:22 running 34% had died. 12:25 And that's action after 19 years, so their chance of 12:28 living to age 70 or beyond was doubled by running. 12:31 We are glad that you have join us for Health For A 12:34 Lifetime and remember also we studied here to have a friend 12:37 and maintain a connection with someone else. 12:40 We are glad you joined us for Health for a Lifetime. |
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