Participants: Dick Nunez & Jay Sutcliffe (Host), Lisa Nunez
Series Code: OFL
Program Code: OFL000005A
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00:01 One of the biggest problems facing us today is depression.
00:03 Do you realize that two thirds of it can be reversed 00:06 just with good life style habits. 00:08 Find out how to optimize your lifestyle, 00:10 next on Optimize 4 Life. 00:35 Hello, I'm Dick Nunez, exercise physiologist. 00:38 And I'm Jay Sutliffe, professor and registered dietician. 00:41 Dick, we're already into week five. 00:45 The interesting thing is that 00:46 some people who've been following us for five weeks, 00:48 maybe somebody's just jumping in now. 00:50 And so we wanna kind of get up the speed here, 00:52 five weeks, so that's roughly 35 days. 00:55 Right. 00:57 Okay, so people should be seeing some changes. 00:58 Absolutely. 01:00 In their lifestyles, adjusting to things, 01:02 may be they've detoxed a little bit, 01:04 may be they've gone through some headaches 01:05 and withdrawals from some of the things 01:07 they're no longer doing. 01:08 And that, of course, one of the things 01:10 we probably should address quickly 01:11 is they can change some of their elimination habits 01:13 as well which people might think as unusual. 01:15 Okay. 01:17 But the reality, that's a good thing. 01:18 That's right and then I remember a lady 01:20 we had at the health center back years ago 01:22 that was surprised that 01:24 how often she was eliminating... 01:25 I mean, bowel movement so she was alarmed 01:27 that there was something wrong with her. 01:28 Right. Right. 01:30 So and then also we want to get personal a little bit 01:33 but also the... 01:34 Also the diameter of the bowel of movement sometimes increases 01:38 'cause you're all putting up the release. 01:40 Absolutely. Okay. 01:42 There's an old saying, 01:43 "Big bowel movement, healthy culture, 01:45 small bowel movement, unhealthy culture." 01:47 That's right. 01:48 But we also wanna remind people 01:49 that sometimes their medications 01:51 are gonna need to be adjusted. 01:52 And we're not physicians, then so 01:54 and we're not trying to give out 01:56 medical advice here, 01:57 so we want them to be still consulting 01:59 with their primary care provider. 02:00 That's correct. 02:02 And going through their regular checkups 02:03 and things like that and so they don't wanna be 02:05 altering their medications on their own, 02:07 they can get into danger doing that. 02:08 Definitely. 02:10 Okay, so today, you started talking about depression. 02:13 So maybe the best place to start would be, 02:16 we're gonna talk about the brain 02:17 and the nervous system. 02:18 Why don't we talk a little bit about 02:20 the anatomy and the physiology? 02:22 Now those two words sometimes scare people 02:25 but the way I've always looked at it is, 02:26 anatomy is the parts. 02:27 Right. 02:29 And the physiology is the way those parts function. 02:30 Correct. 02:31 Okay, so why don't we talk a little bit about the brain, 02:34 the central nervous system and just to start right there, 02:36 why don't you give us a little understanding of that? 02:39 Well, it's very complicated system 02:41 because anybody who's having 02:43 any type of neurological impairment 02:44 can definitely identify 02:46 with how debilitating that thing is 02:48 and I know I've been through it myself. 02:50 So when we get these neural transmissions, 02:52 your body acts like a super highway, 02:55 some of these transmissions are going through it, 02:57 225 miles per hour. 02:58 Wow. 02:59 And you have extensive amount, you know, 03:02 there's more nerve clusters there 03:04 than there are stars in the Milky Way, 03:06 so, I mean, the body is absolutely incredible 03:10 and have the diversity, 03:11 you know, when you just hear the psalmist say, 03:13 "We're truly, fearfully and wonderfully made." 03:14 All you have to do is look at the physiology, 03:16 the body and you go, wow, this is absolutely incredible. 03:19 So the central nervous system, 03:22 you've got to have a clear pathway 03:24 and here's the thing, Jay, 03:26 well, lot of people don't realize, 03:28 they often times think 03:29 if something goes out of a line, 03:30 that like the vertebraes themselves 03:32 are putting pressure on the nerves, 03:34 now that can happen but in a very rare situation 03:36 but it's the muscles 03:38 that are actually impeding neurological function 03:41 and causing people not to feel good 03:42 or having a lot of extensive nerve pain. 03:44 Okay, so we have 03:47 the physiological, the anatomy part of it, 03:50 the parts, the structure, we talked about transmissions 03:53 coming from the brain to the central nervous system, 03:56 200 and some miles an hour? 03:58 225 miles an hour, yeah, it's pretty fast. 04:00 Okay, and so the interesting thing then is 04:02 what about our thoughts, our ideas, 04:06 those types of things, our memories? 04:09 Not so much, that's not so much physiological, 04:12 not the parts and so forth 04:13 but think about how that influences, 04:14 how about our negative thoughts and how we view ourselves? 04:18 I mean, how that can impact our health 04:20 and how we actually function physically? 04:23 Well, again when you think about the fact 04:25 that you have that many nerve cells, 04:27 that outnumbers the stars of the milky way 04:30 and that every thought you have 04:32 affects every cell in your body 04:34 then it becomes pretty overwhelming. 04:36 For example, I tell people all the time when they ask me, 04:40 "How do you warm up to exercise?" 04:42 I tell them, "In my mind," and they said, "Really." 04:45 I said, "I'm thinking about what I'm trying to accomplish 04:48 because you've been a weight lifter before, 04:50 still do lift weights 04:51 and you know that if we grab a weight 04:54 and we're trying to weigh the weight in our hands, 04:56 it's automatically got to feel hard. 04:58 So we have to grab the weight 05:00 and be focused on lifting the weight 05:03 with some enthusiasm if you will 05:05 or be ready to contract your muscles strongly 05:08 in order to lift it because if you don't, 05:12 the weight's gonna be overwhelming." 05:14 So and when I tell people like this, 05:17 I said, "You've ever been angry before?" 05:19 And, you know, obviously you're gonna tell me, yes. 05:22 And people will say, they made me mad. 05:25 Well, that's not true 05:27 because nobody can make you mad 05:29 because I could say something to you, 05:31 you might get mad, you might not. 05:33 I could say the same thing to somebody else, 05:35 they get mad or like when you're driving a car, 05:38 somebody pulls on in front of you, 05:40 I mean, how do people react. 05:41 Some people are going, 05:43 "Praise God, I didn't get an accident." 05:44 Somebody else is gonna have an entirely opposite reaction. 05:47 But here's the thing, Jay, when somebody gets angry, 05:52 you have to, just a second, what are you doing? 05:54 Well, I'm warming up because I'm getting mad. 05:57 No, there's no warm up, I mean, it's zero to hundred. 06:00 Yeah. 06:01 Because give me, those neural transmissions 06:03 are happening extremely quickly and so you're automatically, 06:06 your pulse rate goes up, your respiration goes up, 06:10 the chemicals have been released 06:11 because you are angry and it happens instantly. 06:15 When you get scared, it's instant, 06:17 you don't have to warm up to it it's right then and there, 06:20 so when thought processes effect that 06:22 or if somebody's driving too fast down the road 06:24 and also they go by a speed trap, 06:26 what happens? 06:27 They feel a flesh go from the top of their head 06:29 down to the bottom of their feet. 06:31 And they worry about 06:32 whether lights are gonna come on behind them, 06:34 so just that thought but here's the thing, Jay, 06:36 when we have positive thoughts, 06:38 it effects our body in a very positive way. 06:41 Laughter doeth well like medicine, 06:43 we've heard that before 06:44 because people have laughed their way to wellness. 06:47 When people have harsh or angry thoughts, 06:50 it's gonna have just the opposite effect. 06:53 There's a commandment in the Bible, it says, 06:56 "Honor thy father and mother" so what? 06:59 Your day should be long upon the earth. 07:01 Now that's a commandment 07:03 that actually gives a promise in there 07:05 and you realize, Jay, 07:07 for those who have nothing good to say about their parents, 07:11 by the age of 50, they have a 70% likelihood 07:14 of having a serious physiological problem. 07:17 Wow, so I've also read a proverb 07:20 where it talks about by, 07:23 "The way you think is what you become." 07:24 Right. 07:26 "As a man thinks in his heart so is he," okay, 07:29 so the things we dwell on and the things we think about 07:32 and then it also talks about enrollments, 07:34 talks about being transformed starting where? 07:36 By the renewing of your mind. Right. 07:39 So we need to think about that, 07:40 so don't wanna diminish the physiological part 07:43 but the thinking part is where it starts 07:45 and we can transform our thinking, okay, 07:48 in our brain structure by the way we process things. 07:52 So let's talk about then, when we go through there, 07:54 that the neurological pathways like a neuron, 07:57 I think we have a graphic we could show. 07:58 Okay, let's pull that up. Yeah. 08:00 And so I want you to take us through that 08:02 and show us what a motor neuron actually functions. 08:06 What you see there, there's a word called 'dendrites,' 08:08 now understand something, 08:09 this is not some alien that we put up on the board, 08:11 it is a real thing within the body but dendrites, 08:14 this is gonna sound a little overwhelming, 08:16 we're trying to simplify 08:17 and axon, those are nerve fibers 08:20 and taking it down to a muscle cell, 08:22 this is where muscle fibers are showing 08:23 how the transmission happens to get a muscle to contract 08:27 but between the dendrites and the axons, 08:29 there's actually what's called the synapses 08:31 and in that synapses, 08:33 there's a little thing called boutons, 08:35 they look like little buttons 08:36 and there's chemicals produced there, 08:38 to help with neural transmission happen 08:40 very effectively and so we have a acetylcholine being produced 08:43 so that neurological transmission happens, 08:45 instantaneously, 08:46 so it's like if somebody says, "Tie your shoe," 08:49 you don't have to think about it, 08:51 you can just go right down and you can tie your shoe 08:54 or if you have a bad habit, see that's the thing, 08:58 that acetylcholine comes into play 09:00 and now also and you have a bad habit 09:02 like smoking, drinking 09:04 eating too much chocolate, high fat diet, sugar diet 09:07 and see that's one of the thing people don't realize, 09:09 this sugar is addicting as crack cocaine 09:12 or things that people watch, 09:13 you know, you can get involved in stuff on the internet 09:15 or on television, you know, lot of people get addicted 09:18 to like soap operas, things like that 09:20 or certain movies that gets addicted to, 09:22 scary movies whatever it is 09:24 and so they have neurological transmissions take place 09:27 that give them an endorphin type high 09:30 when they watch these things 09:31 but we also realize that 09:33 the greater overall effect of it 09:35 is gonna be destructive, 09:36 so now we get to a place 09:38 where we need to change something 09:40 or you hear people say, and as a dietician, 09:43 you know this, comfort foods. 09:45 And especially women are notorious, comfort food, 09:49 I feel bad, I wanna eat something 09:51 'cause that's gonna make me feel better or now I ate that, 09:53 so I feel bad again, so I wanna eat some more. 09:56 And so it's a vicious cycle but what we got to say, 09:59 "Well, I'm gonna change this behavior, 10:01 I no longer want to be addicted to chocolate, 10:03 I no longer want to be addicted to alcohol or whatever." 10:07 You have to set up a new neuro transmission 10:09 and when you do that, there's strength in numbers. 10:13 So you set up a new neuro transmission 10:14 that says, "I'm not gonna drink, 10:16 I'm not gonna smoke, I'm not gonna eat bad, 10:19 I'm gonna start taking care of myself, 10:21 I am gonna exercise." 10:22 That transmission becomes developed, 10:24 so what happens to the old one? 10:26 Well, another chemical is released called GABA, 10:29 gamma-aminobutyric acid 10:30 and that's a neural transmit inhibitor, 10:33 so it's gonna stop that neural transmission 10:35 from happening as we work on this new one. 10:37 Now here's the dilemma, Jay, you've heard it before, 10:40 that an alcoholic is always an alcoholic, 10:42 then they reformed or and what do you call? 10:46 And they're active or... Remission. 10:50 Remission, oh, yeah. 10:51 Okay. Okay. 10:53 Well, we're as a sinners, we're in the same category. 10:55 We're either active or we're in remission, 10:58 you know, but we can always step back into that 11:00 if we go there because those neural transmissions 11:02 are still there, 11:03 so when you have that drinking neural transmission there, 11:06 it's been turned off like a white switch 11:08 but as soon as you go back and have a drink, boom, 11:10 it turns back on. 11:12 And you're no longer in remission, 11:14 you're back in full-blown at one more alcohol 11:17 or like a cigarette smoker, they'll stop smoking 11:20 and they'll go for six months 11:21 and they were, pack a day smoker. 11:24 Now so when they smoke again and boom, 11:26 that neural transmission gets turned back on 11:28 and now they're smoking two packs a day, 11:30 it's like their making up for lost time. 11:32 And so that's the dilemma we run into 11:34 and, of course, eating is the same way. 11:36 People fall off the way, 11:37 again they start eating badly and boom, 11:39 they're like making up for lost time. 11:40 I used to have a dessert a day and now I'm gonna have two. 11:42 That's right. 11:44 So, well, that, you know what? 11:45 I have a feeling that 11:47 we're really just touching the surface. 11:48 No, we aren't. Aren't, are we? 11:49 And the interesting thing is this, 11:51 we only get so much time for this segment 11:53 and so we can't really exhaust this subject, 11:56 so it's just a start to get people going 11:58 and the interesting thing is that 12:00 we're talking about the mental thoughts, 12:02 how we think through things 12:04 and how it goes through transmission lines 12:07 and down through the system 12:09 and now we need to turn and look a little bit more 12:11 at what about some of the nutrients 12:13 we put into our bodies, okay. 12:15 And so we're gonna talk about some of those things 12:17 because really when you start looking at the latest research 12:20 coming out on depression as we talked about 12:22 at the opening and also about mental function, 12:26 we're finding that there's a connection 12:27 between inflammation and depression, 12:31 so we're gonna go right now, Chloe is gonna show us 12:33 what somebody, everybody already knows 12:35 how to make a smoothie. 12:37 I mean, who has not made their own smoothie. 12:39 Yeah. You know what I mean? 12:40 But there is this many types of smoothies 12:42 as there are people in the world I think 12:44 and then some of us have 12:45 several types of smoothies we do, right? 12:47 And some smoothies can make you look like a smoothie. 12:49 So we got to be careful. That's a good one. 12:52 So what we're gonna do now is 12:54 we're gonna go to Chloe who's gonna show us a demo 12:57 on how to build a nice base for a smoothie, 13:00 how you can add some greens in there, some omega 3s 13:03 and different foods like that, so let's go to Chloe right now 13:06 and she's gonna show us a tip 13:07 on how we can put our smoothies together. 13:11 We're gonna be talking about smoothies today. 13:13 It just happens to be my husband's favorite food, 13:16 so we're gonna discuss some other things, 13:19 how nutrient dense they are and how they can be, 13:22 if not just for breakfast but for any time a day. 13:25 So we have a basic smoothie that we do everyday, 13:29 you can make a large batch 13:31 or you can make it individual size 13:33 so anybody can have the flavor that they want. 13:37 You can use a variety of liquids, 13:40 you can use ice in them if you want to, 13:42 you can use orange juice as your base 13:44 or an almond or a soy milk if you want as a base, 13:48 then you can choose your fruits. 13:51 We're always having bananas ripening in our house 13:55 so that when they're ripe, 13:56 we can peel them and freeze them 13:57 so we can have smoothies anytime. 14:00 You can use different types of frozen fruits. 14:05 And we even found this blend of different frozen fruits 14:10 that has a smoothie mix already, 14:12 so that's kind of exciting. 14:14 Don't have to do any of the stuff yourself, 14:16 it's already made for you. 14:18 That's kind of a basic smoothie, 14:20 then we move into some of the add-ons, 14:23 we'd like to make a green smoothie at times, 14:25 so we add the kale mixture to it, 14:28 we also wanna put a little fiber into it, 14:32 so we put the chia seed flax, pumpkins, 14:35 sunflower seed mixture into it and that's... 14:39 That can be added on. 14:40 I also have turmeric and ginger, 14:44 I cut up and froze 14:46 so that I can throw those in at times if I want to. 14:50 You can also use yogurt if you want to for a base 14:54 instead of these basic items. 14:57 You can hide the omega 369 oils in it, 15:03 for hiding the flavor of the oil, 15:05 the smoothie masks it really nicely. 15:09 Well, another kind of a desserty type smoothie 15:14 we make is we use a soy milk. 15:17 We put in a spoon full of almond butter 15:20 and four, five, dates and blend it up 15:22 and that is great with the bananas and the soy milk. 15:26 Such a nice, nice sweet treat type smoothie. 15:32 So we're gonna show you how to make a smoothie today 15:35 and use your imagination when you're making a smoothie, 15:38 anything can go in them. 15:40 They're just all around great nutrient dense, 15:44 fast post workout breakfast or whatever treat type meal. 15:51 All right, let's get started and let's make a smoothie. 15:54 So we're gonna take our little bullet 15:57 and we're gonna pour some fruit into it. 16:13 We're gonna add about a cup and a half 16:16 to two cups of fruit. 16:18 This totally depends 16:20 on how thick you want your smoothie. 16:23 We like them really thick 16:25 so we're gonna have about two cups of fruits in there. 16:29 For our add-ons today, 16:30 we're gonna add a sprinkle of our seed mixture 16:35 and a few greens. 16:38 Just a few, we won't put a lot in today. 16:44 Then we're going to add about a cup of soy milk, 16:48 today we're going to use soy milk, 16:51 we'll add that in, okay. 16:56 Actually, I'm ending up 16:58 only putting in about three-fourths of the cup. 17:03 We'll get that, the lid on. 17:11 Make sure that that 17:12 doesn't stick to the bottom too badly, 17:14 we might have to stop and get that to come down. 17:18 All right, we're ready to blend. 17:27 Smoothie is nicely blended. 17:31 So we can pour it into our cup. 17:39 Nice and thick. 17:42 If you want it even thicker, you add less moisture. 17:47 All right, we're ready to eat 17:49 a very nutrient dense smoothie. 17:54 Thank you, Chloe, 17:56 those looked absolutely delicious. 17:57 Now we're going to get into our fitness segment 17:59 and we're covering all aspects of the body 18:02 and then also we wanna remind you 18:03 that you can get full workouts 18:05 on our website at optimize4life.org. 18:08 Right now, we're just doing a body part at a time 18:11 and so today, Lisa, we're gonna work on the biceps 18:15 and this is important exercise even for women 18:17 because we all need to have strong muscles, 18:20 we're talking about neurological function today 18:23 and so forth but all joints in the body 18:26 have to have working muscles around them 18:28 in order to be strong. 18:29 So for the case of our elbow area, 18:32 we need to have both the biceps and triceps strong. 18:34 So, Lisa, go ahead and show us 18:36 a good standard dumbbell curl here. 18:39 Now when she goes all the way down, 18:40 all the way up, contracts the biceps, okay, 18:44 Lisa, do a swinging motion, 18:45 show them how to do it wrong, 18:46 whether you're doing it too fast, 18:48 swinging around, okay. 18:50 Sure you can do a lot of those but it's not proper, 18:52 so we wanna curl up, we wanna focus on contracting the biceps 18:57 and squeezing at the top, so you feel the muscles, 19:00 let it down slowly, you feel the muscle contracting 19:02 as you go down as well. 19:04 Okay, Lisa, sometimes we need to do 19:06 alterations to the curl and why is that? 19:09 Because when we may have an elbow injury. 19:11 Okay. Shoulder injury. 19:12 Okay, so let's go and show them a hammer curl. 19:14 Okay. 19:15 Now this is a hammer curl 19:17 and this is designed to still function as, 19:19 we're still flexing the elbow which is a biceps function 19:22 but we're bringing in some other muscles as well, 19:26 the brachioradialis is coming into play here 19:28 because there are other muscles that help flex the elbow 19:31 besides the biceps 19:32 and so you can work on this action 19:35 and you can still get some bicep 19:36 training out of that, even though 19:38 it's not gonna be as direct. 19:39 Now another thing we do, Lisa, is we get a, yeah, 19:43 we can do some rotations where the bicep function is 19:45 actually the curl and supinate. 19:47 So what Lisa's doing here is she's starting 19:49 in the pronate position to protect the elbow 19:52 but then she's coming up, 19:53 she's going into the supination, 19:56 turning with the thumbs out 19:58 and allowing her biceps to contract. 20:00 And either way, it's gonna be fine, 20:02 we tend to stay pretty much 20:04 with the palms up for the bicep curls 20:06 but if we have to do other things 20:08 or if we need to just shape it a little variety, 20:11 go ahead and do an alternate. 20:13 Alternate your hands, you can do one 20:16 and then the other 20:17 and that's another way to do it, okay? 20:20 And that's biceps training. 20:21 Thank you, Lisa. That was great. 20:25 All right. 20:26 So, Dick, what about 20:28 if somebody doesn't have dumbbells, 20:29 can they use soup cans or... 20:30 They can, they can, and of course, 20:32 on Body and Sprit, we use a towel. 20:33 Okay, so you can use a towel. 20:35 So, or you can get dyna bands or... 20:36 Okay. 20:37 You know, even somebody and again, 20:39 we both have a body building background. 20:41 And so we know that even just going through 20:43 and doing poses, you get tired. 20:46 So you can stand there 20:47 and just go like this if you have nothing. 20:49 Okay. 20:50 And still get a little bit of a training effect, 20:51 so there is really no good reason 20:53 not to do some type of exercise. 20:54 That's right, okay. 20:56 You contracting the muscles is exercise. 20:57 And so adding this to the squats 20:59 we've been doing and just building on this 21:01 'cause we don't want people to do these things 21:02 for one week and then jump to the... 21:03 We wanted the... 21:05 Bring what they did last week... 21:06 Exactly. Into this week and go on. 21:08 Yeah, it's progressive. Right. Okay. 21:09 Okay, so now we're still focusing on the brain, 21:12 the nervous system 21:14 and I can't help but bring up something 21:17 that's close to my heart is dementia, 21:19 cognitive impairment, 21:21 things going on to me, 21:23 we're seeing it rampant in our society 21:24 and more and more as we go along. 21:27 So why don't we talk a little bit about that? 21:29 What are your some of thoughts on dementia, 21:31 you know, Alzheimer's even? 21:33 Well, it's so sad, you know, 21:34 that actually is a lot of information 21:36 out there that's trying to show that 21:37 Alzheimer's is actually more of an auto-immune disorder, 21:40 body it's attacking itself. 21:42 So but the thing we haven't found, Jay, 21:45 is that there are definite steps in lifestyle 21:48 that could be taken to help offset these things. 21:52 One day, fine people who were in regular exercise programs, 21:55 they find that they do not have as great a likelihood 21:58 as having those type of neurological disorders. 22:01 And then of course, 22:03 we also know that in dietary, when people are getting 22:06 in the proper fatty acids and so forth 22:08 and those neural transmissions are staying at high levels 22:12 and then also just exercising your brain. 22:14 And how do we exercise our brain? 22:16 Yeah. 22:17 By reading, by studying, by learning new things, 22:19 now by watching television 22:21 'cause then you got something else 22:22 that's doing the thinking for you. 22:23 That's right. 22:25 We have to get in there and do the thinking. 22:26 Dick, there is a music store in Rapid City 22:28 that their slogan is 22:29 as 'Making music makes you smarter.' 22:31 So you're using different hemispheres of the brain, 22:34 you're doing different things and you actually stay younger. 22:36 Right. Engaging it. 22:38 I also wanna talk a little bit about dietary habits, 22:40 we just finished 22:42 a not only a sixth week but then we follow it up 22:45 with the twelfth week community intervention 22:47 and with my colleagues and I, and we found that 22:50 when we took people before and after 22:53 we did different back depression inventories 22:56 and things like that, we took people through 22:58 a six week and a twelve week study. 23:01 And community intervention, we found that at the end 23:04 there was a 50%, over a 50% reduction 23:07 and depressive symptoms. 23:09 And so we found that 23:10 when you bring the inflammation down in the body 23:13 by eating a lot of fresh fruits, 23:14 lot of fruits, fresh vegetables 23:17 and an anti-inflammatory diet making sure 23:19 we're eating some walnuts, some seeds and some nuts, 23:22 we find that it brings the inflammation down, 23:24 the blood circulates better. 23:26 And listen to this, even the Alzheimer's, 23:29 Center for Alzheimer's research says, 23:32 'What is good for the heart is good for the brain.' 23:34 Exactly. 23:35 If you see plaque build up 23:37 not only in the heart and the vessels 23:38 that feed the heart but feed the brain. 23:40 Right. 23:41 So restricted blood flow to the brain. 23:44 Think about that, if we can restore that 23:46 in the circulation, get in some fitness, 23:48 get in the diet, get the thoughts going, 23:50 you get them all going together 23:52 and we see how the mind, the body and the spirit 23:55 work together to make us whole again. 23:57 Right. So interesting things there. 23:59 We had a man in Rapid City 24:01 that we're training at our facility 24:03 at Fit-in-Fifteen and 67 years old, 24:05 he was an accountant at one time 24:07 and he's now retired 24:09 and when I started talking to him in the beginning, 24:12 he really wouldn't say much, you would ask him a question 24:14 and he'd answer but he'd had to think about it. 24:17 But after working out for a year, 24:19 you'd ask him something, you couldn't shut him up. 24:22 Also and his life, his mind became alive and active again 24:25 and his wife said she could see a massive change. 24:28 And I said, "Despite anything 24:30 that happens to you physically..." 24:31 And of course, we know through exercise, 24:33 muscles are gonna get stronger, you can lose body fat, 24:35 all those good things are gonna happen. 24:36 But I say, what's happened to him mentally 24:40 is worth more than anything what I do to him physically 24:42 'cause now his brain has come back to life again. 24:45 And that's so exciting because circulation, 24:48 oxygenated tissue, 24:49 that's what makes things healthy, 24:51 get the fresh nutrients there, get the waste byproducts out, 24:54 and if we don't, 24:55 disease is gonna start setting up. 24:57 Wow, wow, and I also read a research study recently 25:01 where it talked about 25:02 for every extra serving of fruit 25:04 or vegetable that you take in, 25:06 there's a seven percent reduction in stroke risk, 25:10 so think about that. 25:11 So every time we can eat some more 25:13 and it's also the fiber in these foods 25:15 that clean up the vessels, 25:17 get the blood flowing and we actually get 25:19 the nutrients to the brain, we get the oxygen to the brain, 25:22 it's amazing and I know, you and I, 25:25 sometimes we workout to get that endorphin high. 25:27 Exactly. 25:28 And to get those endorphins firing in the brain, 25:30 it actually is a pain reliever 25:31 if we have some minor aches and pains 25:34 and we also just find that 25:35 we think better the rest of the day. 25:37 Right. 25:38 Have you noticed that? Oh, absolutely. 25:40 And when we started the show, I made the comment about 25:43 in just three months, 25:46 that two thirds of all depression 25:48 will be reversed. 25:49 And with what Dr. Natalie has found out, 25:51 that just by exercising, Jay, 25:53 three times a week on a regular basis 25:56 for three months, the two thirds... 25:58 Wow. 26:00 Of all depressions could be reversed. 26:01 And when you started looking at how much 26:05 some of these medications are elevated. 26:09 From the constant producing them to taking them, 26:12 I mean, it's over a 100,000%, 26:15 I mean, it's just really staggering 26:17 and some as high as 600,000%. 26:19 Wow. 26:21 And I'm not gonna name names because, you know, 26:23 but they're extremely high and they're dealing 26:27 with these mental problems that people are dealing. 26:31 And also we find that lot of people 26:32 that are having some real problems 26:36 and acting out of society, 26:38 were actually on some of these medications. 26:40 That's right. 26:41 So it's pretty sad and especially when we know, 26:43 Jay, that when you change lifestyle 26:46 and they find it even in correctional centers, 26:49 I was a principal for Adventist Youth for a year 26:51 in West Virginia and we find that 26:53 when you have them on healthy diets, 26:55 their behavior improves. 26:56 Yeah, their studies back into the 70s, 26:59 in South Dakota where they took truancy, 27:02 juvenile delinquents and took them out 27:05 and put them out on a farm working 27:07 and got them on a simple diet and actually reformed them. 27:10 Right. 27:12 So it's interesting how some of our prison systems 27:13 have experimented with that, we've seen that too as well. 27:16 And when they try to take it away from them... 27:17 Yeah. 27:18 They really rebel because, "No, no, we don't wanna be 27:20 what we came in 27:21 and we wanna be a new creature." 27:23 People don't wanna go through those struggles and so forth. 27:25 That's right. 27:26 So why don't we wrap this up, we're running out of time. 27:28 And you can talk about some, just some final things 27:30 about exercise and just throw it together 27:32 and again we're just touching the surface. 27:34 Well, with the amount of time we have, my neurological fibers 27:36 won't fire that quickly from my mouth so... 27:38 We're gonna have to wrap this up. 27:40 But we just really enjoyed talking to you folks today 27:43 and I hope that some of the things 27:45 we talked about will help you 27:46 to make better decisions in your life. 27:48 Remember you can go to our website 27:49 at optimize4life.org. 27:52 God bless you and thanks for joining us 27:53 at Optimize 4 Life. |
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