Participants: Dr. David DeRose (Host)
Series Code: LIF
Program Code: LIF000001A
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00:28 Welcome to Extend Lifespan Naturally.
00:30 I'm Doctor David DeRose, president of 00:32 CompassHealth Consulting, 00:34 and your host on this journey 00:36 into a glimpse of how we can live 00:39 longer and live better. 00:42 Have you ever thought about it? What does it really 00:44 take to live a long and healthy life? 00:46 I'd like to suggest to you that it involves 00:49 at least two basic strategies. 00:51 The first one is avoiding the major 00:53 disease processes that we face. 00:56 The second involves not just 00:58 avoiding disease, but optimizing health. 01:01 Let's look at that first area initially. 01:04 What are the major diseases that can rob us of longevity? 01:09 If you look throughout most of the world, you'll find that 01:12 there are two diseases that stand at 01:14 the top of many lists. Things like 01:17 coronary artery disease, the cause of heart attacks, 01:20 and cancer. Those are typically 01:22 the two leading causes of death 01:24 in many cultures throughout the world. 01:27 Also up there are things like stroke, 01:30 chronic lung disease, 01:31 infectious diseases, 01:33 high blood pressure and 01:34 diabetes as contributing factors 01:36 to some of those conditions. 01:40 One of the questions always is, 01:42 how do I know which one 01:44 of those disease processes 01:45 I should be most concerned about? 01:47 Is it heart disease, cancer? 01:49 Is it stroke? Do I need to look at my 01:52 family history and then try to decide 01:55 a natural approach to prevent 01:57 that most likely killer (at least in my case) 02:00 from coming and knocking on my door? 02:03 Actually, the good news is quite 02:05 revolutionary. Basically, it's the same 02:09 lifestyle approach, the same 02:11 natural approach that can help us 02:13 avoid most of the leading killers. 02:16 We've made easy in this presentation 02:18 to remember 9 essential elements in that 02:22 disease preventing lifestyle. 02:24 We call it simply LifeStart. 02:27 That's right--LifeStart. What does that mean? 02:31 Of course, the phrase is trying 02:34 to encourage you to look at 02:35 starting your life anew, based on 02:37 the information that we're reviewing 02:39 in this presentation. I say 02:41 reviewing, because much of this 02:42 information has been out for many 02:44 years. It's likely not to be something 02:46 totally unfamiliar to you. 02:48 We've also called it LifeStart because 02:50 LifeStart is a mnemonic. It's an 02:52 acronym, where each letter in that 02:55 phrase refers to a specific health-enhancing 02:59 strategy. 9 of them, all told. 03:02 LifeStart. Let's look at it in some detail. 03:04 Before we go there, let me just 03:07 highlight one other thing. We said we're 03:08 going to be looking at two strategies. One 03:10 strategy is preventing the 03:13 leading killers from visiting us. 03:16 The other is enhancing the quality 03:19 of our life. We'll find that the 03:20 LifeStart elements help us in 03:23 both of this domains. So, just what 03:25 are they? Well the "L" stands for 03:28 Liquids. That's right--our choice 03:30 of beverages, in particular, has a 03:33 profound bearing on our 03:35 likelihood of living longer 03:36 and living better. We'll look at 03:38 that in some detail in today's 03:39 presentation. The "I" stands for 03:43 Interpersonal Relations, or Interpersonal Relationships. 03:47 This may not sound like something 03:49 that you've heard that much about. It's 03:51 been relatively recently that researchers 03:54 are realizing that this is not 03:55 just something that involves our 03:57 quality of life, but it actually 03:58 has role in helping us live longer. 04:01 We'll look at that data. I don't want 04:02 you to get discouraged just as we're 04:04 starting on this set of strategies 04:08 to help you, because 04:09 if you're watching this, perhaps 04:11 over the Internet, maybe you feel 04:12 quite isolated. We actually have help 04:15 for you. We have personalized 04:17 coaching opportunities available 04:20 on the lifestartseminars.com 04:23 Website. So you can tap into opportunities 04:26 to connect with other people. 04:28 For those of you who are watching 04:29 this in a group, maybe in a 04:31 community center, a church--some 04:32 other place where faith community 04:34 gathers. We're glad that you're 04:37 on this journey with other people 04:38 because we'll see that interpersonal 04:40 relationships are one of the key 04:42 elements in the LifeStart program. 04:45 The next letter is "F," and it stands for 04:48 Foods. This is not surprising, is it? Dietary choices have 04:52 a lot to do with how long we 04:54 live, as well as our life quality. 04:56 We'll explore that as well in 04:58 today's presentation. Exercise 05:01 is critical. We're learning more and more 05:03 about the health-giving benefits of 05:04 exercise. We will explore that 05:06 component as well. 05:08 Then we come to the word "Start." We've 05:09 gone through "L-I-F-E," now we're 05:11 looking at "Start." The "S" stands for 05:14 Sunlight. Sunlight has been 05:16 something that, of course, no life 05:19 could exist on the earth without it. 05:21 We'll be looking some of the 05:22 health-giving properties for us 05:24 individually when it comes to 05:26 that important ingredient. 05:28 Then we move to something called 05:29 Temperance. I know it's an old- 05:31 fashioned word, but it's a powerful 05:33 concept. Many people toady have 05:35 set aside temperance and in its 05:38 place they've put--that's right-- moderation. 05:43 Temperance includes moderation 05:45 but it's moderation in things are 05:47 good. Temperance also includes the 05:49 idea of total avoidance of things that are harmful. 05:52 We'll explore that shortly. 05:55 "A" stands for Air, "R" stands for 05:58 Rest, and T for Trust in Divine 06:01 power. Ready to embark on our journey, 06:04 looking at these elements just a little bit further? 06:06 I hope so, because that's 06:07 where we're going, right now. Let's look at 06:11 these 9 elements and take a 06:13 careful look just a few examples. 06:15 We can't cover every one in detail. 06:17 By the way, if you do want more 06:19 information or want this in 06:21 writing, we actually have a free e-book 06:23 on the Website that walks you 06:24 though the LifeStart paradigm. 06:27 You can get it there at that very same 06:29 Website, lifestartseminars.com. 06:33 Let's talk about liquids. 06:35 One of my favorite studies when we 06:37 speak about liquids grew out 06:38 of research performed at 06:40 Loma Linda University in Southern 06:41 California. Dr. Jacqueline Chan 06:44 (I can remember actually visiting 06:45 with Dr. Chan) had this belief 06:48 that if we looked at liquid 06:51 consumption, we could get a window 06:53 on why some people die sooner than others. 06:56 Others, even of our peers, who are saying, 06:58 "This is ridiculous! This is not a big factor." 07:00 When the research was published in 07:02 2002 in the American Journal of Epidemiology, 07:05 everybody who read it took notice. 07:08 Take a look of what they found. 07:10 What this is illustrating here is, 07:12 in the bars on the left, you see 07:15 individuals who were drinking 07:18 little water. They're drinking small 07:20 amounts of water. You can see it here-- 07:23 less than 2 glasses per day. 07:26 If you move over to the right side 07:29 of the graphic, you can see now 07:31 individuals who are drinking 07:33 greater than 5 glasses of water 07:36 everyday. What's so remarkable is 07:39 the height of the graphs. What we're looking 07:41 at here--these bars-- are representing 07:44 the likelihood of dying. Dying 07:47 from a heart attack, or other causes 07:49 of heart disease. What you 07:50 notice is, those who are drinking 07:52 more water cut their risk of 07:55 dying from a heart attack roughly 50 percent. 08:00 Granted, if you're looking very carefully at the graphic, 08:04 you'll realize women didn't do quite 08:06 that well--maybe a 40 percent decrease or so. 08:09 Men were better than that-- over a 08:10 50 percent decrease in the likelihood of 08:13 dying from a fatal heart condition. 08:17 You say, "This is great news Dr. DeRose. 08:20 This give me some ammunition now. 08:22 I'll be getting a lot of flack from my significant other 08:25 when it comes to all that soda pop that I drink. That's the 08:29 only way I can get my water in. 08:31 I'm going to take screen shot of this-- 08:33 take a photograph of it 08:35 (if you're watching this in a meeting hall), 08:38 and bring it right home with me." 08:40 Well, before you use this as ammunition for your soda 08:45 consumption preferences, you've 08:47 got to see that there was another 08:49 graphic in that study. Let's take a look at it. 08:53 Now we're looking at individuals who drank less than 2 glasses 08:59 of other beverages. That's the 09:02 leftmost bars. You'll notice then-- 09:06 the rightmost bars are those 09:09 who are drinking more of other 09:12 beverages besides water. Do you see 09:16 the problem? Other beverages 09:18 were associated, not with protection 09:22 from heart disease, but rather an 09:24 increase in the risk of fatal 09:26 heart disease. That's right-- 09:28 drink more of other fluids, other 09:31 liquids, and your risk is increased. 09:34 Some of you, no doubt, are saying, 09:35 "Surely this couldn't be every other 09:37 fluid besides water?" Unfortunately, when 09:41 you do research, sometimes you have small enough numbers that, 09:44 in order to have what we cause a statistical 09:47 power, you have to clump 09:48 some things together. All Dr. Chan's 09:51 team could do was group together all the other beverages 09:55 that were being used. Presumably, 09:57 this represents the beverages 10:00 that are commonly consumed in our 10:02 culture. It was a study 10:03 done in America. The point here 10:05 is simple. Although we may not be able to parse out 10:08 whether every single beverage 10:11 besides water is less than optimal, 10:13 We can clearly say this from the 10:15 research: water drinking is health- 10:17 enhancing. One example we've 10:19 just seen. It can help you decrease 10:22 your risk of dying from a heart 10:24 attack. We need to move on 10:26 because there's other powerful things that can help 10:28 decrease our likelihood 10:30 of dying from killer diseases 10:34 and also increase the quality 10:36 of our life. Let's move on to 10:37 talk about interpersonal 10:38 relationships. There's no question-- 10:41 that these aspects of life increase 10:44 the quality of our life, 10:45 at least if those relationships 10:46 are supportive. I'm sure you could 10:48 think of some people that 10:49 you'd rather not be around. 10:51 Those people definitely are not 10:52 enhancing the quality of your 10:53 life when they show up. But the 10:55 point is simply this: 10:57 we are made as social beings and, 10:59 regardless of whether you thrive on a lot 11:01 of social contact, or 11:03 perhaps a little bit more limited 11:05 social contact. The point is, 11:07 most all of us do better when we are 11:09 connected with other people. 11:10 Indeed, that's the research shows. 11:12 It's not just for quality of life. 11:14 Look at this amazing study that 11:16 was done some years ago, published 11:19 in the cancer research literature. 11:21 Before we actually look at the graphic, 11:23 let me give just give you the background. The background is 11:26 one of the most prestigious epidemiological studies in the 11:29 world. It is what we call a longitudinal cohort study. 11:32 That means you have a group of people 11:33 and you're following them through time. 11:36 In this case, the people who are being followed are nurses. 11:40 It's a study known as the Nurses' Health Study. 11:42 It was conducted by Harvard University. 11:45 In this particular paper, the researchers actually 11:49 identified a 10-year period 11:53 between 1992 and 2002. What they 11:57 then found is that, in this group of 12:00 over 100,000 women, 12:02 nearly 3,000 of those nurses were 12:05 diagnosed with breast cancer 12:06 during that decade. This was 12:10 breast cancer, regardless of the stage. 12:13 We had early stage breast cancer, Stage I--all the way 12:16 through Stage IV breast cancer. 12:18 What the researchers did, though, was very interesting. 12:20 They looked at survival in relationship to social 12:27 connectedness. What they did find? 12:31 Look at the data with me. 12:33 If you look at the bottom bars in this 12:36 graphic, you'll see represented 12:38 in the light blue, the breast 12:42 cancer mortality among those 12:45 who were socially integrated. 12:47 You notice it's relatively low 12:50 compared to the dark blue bar 12:52 above it, which represents those 12:55 who were socially isolated. 12:57 Those who did not have a lot of 13:00 social connections had over 13:03 double the risk of dying from 13:05 breast cancer over the period 13:07 of this study. That was not 13:10 anywhere near as remarkable as 13:12 the upper bars, at least in the 13:14 eyes of this physician. 13:16 If you look at those upper bars, 13:18 now we're not just looking at 13:19 dying from breast cancer. 13:21 We're looking at what is called "all 13:23 cause mortality"--the likelihood of 13:25 dying from any cause. You see 13:27 here, those women who were socially integrated had 13:30 the lowest rates of death, whereas those who 13:33 were socially isolated had 66 percent 13:37 greater likelihood of dying from 13:39 from any cause. Social 13:42 connectedness, interpersonal 13:44 relationships--they are powerful 13:46 as far as helping you live longer 13:48 and live better. Let's move on now to the "F" in our LifeStart 13:55 paradigm. The "F" stands for Foods. 13:59 Let me just give you one example 14:00 on this topic. If you've explored 14:04 our Website, you know that we've got a lot of health resources. 14:07 Many are free resources, others there's some fee for. 14:11 One of one the products that's there is 14:12 my "Reversing Hypertension 14:14 Naturally" DVD series. 3 hours of 14:17 DVDs that walk people through 14:19 natural principles to control 14:21 high blood pressure. In that 14:23 series, I learned a powerful thing 14:25 about foods and how it impacts 14:27 high blood pressure, which many of you realize is a risk factor 14:31 for dying prematurely from 14:33 things like stroke and heart attack, 14:35 as well as kidney failure. 14:39 Hypertension has an interesting 14:40 relationship with diet. Let me 14:42 just share with you one salient insight. 14:45 This was one that was new to me when 14:46 I was doing research for the series. 14:48 I learned that, in plant products, 14:51 in a variety of plants, whether they're oats or 14:55 peas, legumes or a variety of 14:57 plants, there are something 14:59 called Ace Inhibitory Compounds. 15:03 For some of you, that may not 15:04 mean much. Let me just give 15:06 you a little bit of background. I'm going to use 15:08 Some big words, but I'll walk you 15:10 through it. There's a hormonal 15:12 system in our body called the 15:13 Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System. 15:17 That system integrates the brain, the kidneys, various 15:21 hormonal mechanisms, that actually control blood pressure. 15:27 If that system is out of whack, it will 15:30 raise your blood pressure. One of 15:31 the ways to tone that system 15:33 down is by using ACE inhibitors. 15:37 Some of the most popular blood 15:39 pressure medications that have been 15:40 around for many decades are the ACE 15:42 inhibitors. It's actually a class 15:44 of drugs that you can take in 15:46 prescription form. Other drug 15:49 classes, not just single agents, feed into the same system 15:54 Here's the point that I'm trying to make about diet: 15:57 if you eat more plant products, more 16:00 fruits, more grains, more vegetables more seeds, 16:04 you will be eating more Ace inhibitory 16:07 compounds. It requires no 16:09 prescription from a doctor to 16:10 take these. They're in regimented amounts 16:12 in these natural plant foods. 16:14 Research study after research study shows the same thing. 16:18 Eat more plant of foods, blood 16:21 pressure comes down. Don't get worried 16:24 if your blood pressure runs on 16:25 the low side, like mine does. I eat 16:27 a lot of plant products and I am 16:29 not laying on the floor in shock. 16:32 It's not going to cause you to become 16:34 what we call "hypotensive." I've 16:35 never seen that. Eat more 16:37 of these plant foods. You'll find 16:38 these are the same foods that lower 16:40 your risk of cancer and heart disease 16:42 by other mechanisms. They help you with 16:44 diabetes, and they have quality of life benefits as well. 16:47 Let's hasten on now to exercise. 16:49 Exercise has far-reaching effects 16:52 when it comes to enhancing 16:54 our health. Remember, we talked 16:56 about optimizing health, as well as 16:58 preventing killer diseases. 17:00 Exercise not only helps to 17:02 decrease the risk of cancers, 17:04 like colon cancer. By the way if you've never smoked 17:07 cigarettes, colon cancer is the 17:09 single most likely cancer to 17:11 kill you. I'm speaking across gender lines. Even though 17:14 many women die of breast cancer, and many men of prostate cancer, 17:18 if you combine the genders and 17:20 you take cigarette smoking out of the equation, 17:22 colon cancer is the leading killer. In part, 17:26 colon cancer deaths are related to lack 17:28 of exercise. I know, I know-- 17:31 one of you is thinking about that friend of yours 17:34 who ran marathons or 17:35 played tennis everyday and still 17:37 had colon cancer. I'm not telling 17:38 you exercise is a panacea, but 17:41 we know it does decrease risk. 17:43 Not only is cancer risk decreased 17:46 by exercise, but so is heart 17:47 disease risk, blood pressure is 17:49 lower, metabolism works better, 17:51 less risk of diabetes. You can 17:54 even prevent the development of 17:56 of diabetes if you have what we call pre-diabetes by doing 17:59 better with your exercise. 18:01 Let's stop there for a minute. 18:03 I told you that the same factors 18:05 that help us live longer, help us 18:07 to live better. Did you know 18:11 that exercise is one of the best 18:13 things you can do for your mental health? 18:15 That's right--if you have 18:16 a tendency towards depression, 18:18 exercise tends to boost your mood. 18:21 On the other hand, if you tend to 18:22 be anxious, exercise helps to calm you down. 18:26 Isn't that fascinating? Exercise has this mood and 18:29 mental balancing effect. 18:32 I recommend exercise to my 18:34 patients regularly for both 18:36 disease prevention and for life 18:39 enhancement. While we're on that subject, 18:41 exercise does something else 18:43 that's remarkable. it actually 18:45 improves blood fluidity. 18:48 The technical term for that is that it improves 18:50 hemorheology. Some of you perhaps have seen 18:53 my mini series on "Longevity Plus." 18:56 It actually builds on a lot of the things 18:58 we're talking about in this short 18:59 presentation, and it looks at it especially from the window 19:02 of improving our circulation. 19:05 That's right-- improving circulation 19:07 through things like exercise, diet 19:08 and other natural processes. 19:10 Exercise is boon to mental health, 19:14 it's a boon to quality of life in general. 19:19 That's "Life." What about the "Start?" 19:23 Let's look at the letter "S." Sunlight 19:26 is a powerful health-enhancing 19:28 commodity. You know that there would 19:30 be no life on earth without 19:31 sunlight. It is sunlight which 19:33 allows plants to engage in that 19:36 process known as photosynthesis, 19:39 which is really the foundation 19:41 of life on our planet. Sunlight 19:44 is health-giving as well when 19:46 it comes to human frame. We've 19:48 known for decades how important 19:50 the sunshine was for making 19:53 vitamin D. Vitamin D is a very 19:55 interesting vitamin. You don't have to ingest it by mouth. 19:58 In fact, some would argue that vitamin D is 20:01 best optimized by judicious exposure to the sun. 20:05 When the sun's rays hit your skin, 20:09 they actually create vitamin D. 20:13 Vitamin D is important for bone health. Without vitamin D, you 20:16 can't optimally manage calcium functions in your body. 20:21 To have strong bones, you need good 20:23 levels of Vitamin D. But that really is old news. 20:26 The newer news of vitamin D is the cutting-edge 20:29 information, showing us that Vitamin D is important for 20:34 the immune system. That's right-- if you 20:36 have a tendency toward autoimmune 20:39 diseases, diseases where 20:40 the body's attacking itself, 20:41 vitamin D seems to be able to 20:43 tone down autoimmunity. On the 20:46 other hand, vitamin D has the 20:49 ability to enhance the immune system 20:51 to help you fight infectious diseases. For some years I lived 20:55 in Northern New England. 20:57 In Northern New England, we 20:58 saw a lot of multiple sclerosis, 21:01 an autoimmune disease that 21:03 targets the myelin sheaths, the 21:06 insulating covering of nerve fibers. 21:09 There's a connection between 21:11 living further from the equator-- 21:13 further north or further south-- 21:15 and developing MS, especially if 21:17 you lived in those areas during your childhood years. 21:21 The evidence is suggesting that this may well be an effect of 21:25 insufficient Vitamin D levels early in life. Here's an 21:30 example of an autoimmune condition 21:32 that's being linked to vitamin D. 21:34 Let me just give you one other piece in the puzzle. 21:36 A lot of people have been worried 21:37 about vitamin D and cancer. They say, 21:39 "I don't want to get out in sun 21:40 too much. I don't want to get skin cancer." It 21:42 is true that burning and too much sun exposure may be a 21:47 problem. Very interesting point: sun actually, sunlight 21:52 and the vitamin D that it creates, 21:54 actually is cancer-preventive 21:57 for a host of major cancer killers. 22:00 So get judicious sunlight 22:02 exposure (don't get too much) 22:03 and you'll be giving yourself another health-enhancing factor 22:07 that can help to extend your lifespan naturally. 22:12 Let's move on to Temperance. Remember, I told 22:15 you earlier in this presentation. 22:17 Temperance is not just moderation 22:19 when it comes to good things. 22:20 It's total avoidance of things 22:22 that are harmful. What is that 22:24 look like? What things do we 22:25 need to totally avoid? What 22:27 things in which we need to be moderate? 22:29 Of course, when it comes to good 22:31 foods, we need to be moderate in 22:33 our eating habits. It is true that 22:35 even when it comes to good food, 22:37 we can overeat. In fact, if you 22:39 look at data from the United States 22:41 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 22:43 we find that more Americans are dying from overeating than from 22:48 anything else, at least when it comes to nutrition per Se. 22:51 That's what the data seems to indicate. Here's my point: 22:56 yes, eat those good plant foods! 22:58 By the way, if you're eating plant foods, 23:00 especially vegetables. Especially leaf, 23:03 stem and flower vegetables. Let me break that down-- 23:07 things like spinach, cauliflower, cabbage, 23:11 broccoli (broccoli is a flower and 23:13 a stem). If you're eating things 23:16 like that, it is very hard 23:18 to eat so many calories that you 23:19 gain weight. Stock up on those foods, but be careful 23:24 not to overeat, especially of the 23:26 calorically-dense foods. Obesity is 23:29 driving epidemic rates in the United States with things like 23:33 osteoarthritis, the breaking down of 23:36 joints in the hips and knees 23:39 and in the low back. Obesity is driving 23:43 things like high blood pressure 23:45 diabetes and is associated with cancer. 23:47 You get my point. This is one area where we'd want to call 23:50 from moderation. What about 23:53 any area where we'd want to totally 23:55 avoid something? I know I don't 23:58 have a huge amount of company, but there's 24:00 a growing number of health professionals 24:02 that are lining up behind me (or I'm lining up with, 24:05 whatever the case might be, 24:06 I'm not trying to give a sense of preeminence) on the subject 24:09 of alcohol. Although many people have touted 24:12 alcohol as a health-giving beverage, the public health 24:15 evidence does not indicate that. 24:17 Alcohol, even in moderation, has problems. Since we're 24:20 speaking about extending your lifespan naturally, let me give 24:23 you a salient example from the cancer literature. 24:26 The cancer literature indicates that even 24:29 moderate consumption alcohol increases the risk of a 24:33 host of cancers. Let me give you 24:35 an example on the quality of life that actually overlaps 24:39 with longevity as well. Diabetes 24:42 and alcohol--they do not get along 24:44 well together. Dr. Joslyn, the founder of the famous Joslyn 24:47 Diabetes Clinic in the Boston area. Joslyn actually 24:52 took a notoriously firm stand against the use of alcohol, 24:55 not only by the patients of the 24:57 Joslyn Clinic, but also by his staff. 25:00 Joslyn was right--that's what the evidence indicates. Alcohol 25:03 is a huge source of calories, nearly twice 25:05 as many calories as pure sugar. 25:07 It contributes to obesity which, of 25:09 course, contributes to our epidemic of 25:11 diabetes. Drinking alcohol lowers your 25:13 willpower. If you're wanting to get on a better 25:15 lifestyle, it's going to undermine that. 25:17 Alcohol, in and of itself, can 25:19 raise blood sugar. On top of it, 25:21 if your blood sugar gets low-- if 25:22 you get hypoglycemic--alcohol interferes with your body's 25:26 ability to address that. Want to add one more quality of life 25:29 factor? I'll do it. In the absence of diabetes, alcohol 25:33 itself can cause nerve damage, 25:35 known as neuropathy, one of the 25:37 leading complications of diabetes. 25:39 Fresh air--a very important commodity. The leading pollutant 25:44 in America--tobacco smoke. If you're a 25:47 smoker, it's just one more reason 25:49 to quit. You may have thought the 25:50 damage was done. You've been smoking for many years. The good 25:53 news is, the minute you stop smoking 25:55 cigarettes, you stop feeding 25:58 any cancers that may already have begun. 25:59 You say, "But I don't have cancer, Doctor 26:01 DeRose." You don't know if you don't 26:02 have cancer. Are you aware of that? 26:04 When you have an early cancer, there are no tests 26:06 that can detect it. You can 26:08 switch the balance, get rid of 26:10 those tumor accelerators. 26:12 That's right--tumor accelerators that are in 26:14 tobacco smoke and you may never 26:16 become a cancer casualty. 26:18 Rest. We've got to talk about rest. 26:21 I know some of you may feel like you 26:22 want to rest after this high-speed 26:24 journey through the LifeStart mnemonic. 26:26 Rest is so important. It calms stress 26:29 hormone levels down. It helps us to have a better blood pressure, 26:32 better blood sugar. It's just 26:34 something that all the way around 26:37 is beneficial. Make sure you're not 26:39 cutting yourself short on sleep. It will also help your joints. 26:42 If you're cutting yourself short on sleep, inflammatory compounds 26:46 wrap up and you will tend to have more 26:48 join pain. The last element, Trust 26:51 In Divine Power, reminds us 26:53 that most all of us come to some 26:55 areas in our lifestyle where we need 26:56 help. We need help outside of ourselves. 26:59 From someone who once was agnostic, 27:01 it was a big change for me to recognize that there was a 27:04 power outside of me that was 27:06 willing to help. I really believe 27:08 there is. That's why we speak about Trust in Divine 27:10 Power. If that doesn't resonate with you, 27:12 we've got people with the LifeStart 27:15 Seminars who are willing to help you. 27:17 You can access them on our Website, 27:20 lifestartseminars.com. Remember, that is your 27:24 gateway for many other educational programs. 27:28 Free educational programs are there for you. We've got great 27:31 materials. You can learn more about living longer and better 27:34 by using my mini- DVD series called 27:38 "Longevity Plus." The bottom 27:42 line is, take advantage of what we've got for you. Make sure you 27:44 pick up our free e-book as well. It will walk you through that 27:47 LifeStart mnemonic, give you more 27:49 details, more practical insights We're here for you. We're trying 27:54 to help you in all the material 27:56 that we present to help you live longer and better. That is 27:59 what LifeStart is all about. For LifeStart 28:02 Seminars, and for all of us at lifestartseminars.com, 28:07 I'm Dr. Dave Derose, wishing you great 28:11 success in living longer and better. |
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