Participants: Dr. Bobby Scales
Series Code: OTR
Program Code: OTR000886
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01:00 Well, we're gonna talk about the brain being an organ too,
01:04 so I take it that you all must have 01:06 some interest in your brain that's why you're here, right. 01:09 Well, I think the most important thing 01:10 that we can do before we do anything is look to the Lord. 01:13 Amen. Let's pray. 01:15 Heavenly Father, how grateful we're 01:17 for another day that You blessed us to see. 01:20 We thank You for these gentlemen 01:21 that have come out to be in this session 01:24 and we pray in the name of Jesus 01:25 that Your Holy Spirit would use me to Your honor 01:28 and to Your glory, 01:29 that You would help their hearts and their minds 01:30 to be receptive. 01:32 And Lord, that You would help all things to be done 01:34 decently and in order. 01:35 In Jesus name we ask and we pray. Amen. 01:39 Now, gentlemen, I want to make a statement 01:44 and see if you agree with it 01:46 and then we're gonna ask you question following that. 01:47 Is that all right? 01:49 Now, if I say to you, your health matters, 01:54 your health matters, would you give me 01:56 an enthusiastic resounding yes. Amen. 02:00 So say this with me. My health matters. 02:04 My health matters. Amen. 02:06 Now if I came back and say to you, 02:08 Or does it? Or does it? 02:12 How would you feel? 02:13 There's an old saying that goes, 02:17 your actions are speaking so loudly 02:20 that I can't hear a word that you're saying. 02:22 Have you ever heard that one? 02:24 Very, very popular saying. 02:25 So we're gonna find out today 02:27 if our actions are in line with our words, 02:30 and they should be, amen. They should be. 02:33 So, your health matters or does it. 02:36 Now when we go through this 02:39 we're going to see that the brain is an organ too. 02:45 When we talk about the brain being an organ, 02:47 we don't often think about it 02:49 like we do the rest of the body. 02:51 We have a tendency to separate it. 02:53 We think about things like heart disease 02:55 and cancer and diabetes 02:57 and stroke and all those things, 02:59 but it's somehow separated from the brain. 03:02 Now do you believe that can really be so. 03:05 Do you believe that can really be so? 03:07 The brain is an organ too. 03:09 Next slide please, if you look at this picture of the brain 03:13 you will see that it is a very complex structure. 03:17 Now don't worry, I don't expect you 03:19 to memorize every word on here 03:21 and know what it means, 03:22 but there are certain areas of the brain 03:23 that we're going to talk about. 03:24 Because where do we communicate with God, 03:27 through our what? 03:29 Through our mind, through our brain. 03:30 So if the brain isn't what it should be, 03:33 will not the enemy of our souls 03:34 use that against us 03:37 in communication with our Creator. 03:39 And if we cannot have 03:40 communication with our Creator, 03:42 how can we keep the first four commandments, 03:44 and if we can't keep the first four commandments, 03:46 how can we keep the last six. 03:48 So he interrupts our relationship with God 03:50 and with our fellow man, amen. 03:53 Next slide please. 03:54 So, a question I have for you today. 03:56 What's on your mind? 03:58 What's on your mind? 04:01 Now God is a discerner of the thoughts 04:04 so He knows what's on our minds, amen. 04:07 Satan cannot read our minds, did you know that. 04:09 He cannot read our minds 04:11 all he can go by is our past actions. 04:15 So, he will tempt us according to 04:18 what our behaviors had been in the past. 04:19 He knows your pattern, he's known me for 50 years, 04:23 50 years so he can kind of predict, 04:25 well if I put this in Bobby's pat 04:27 the likelihood and the chance of this happening 04:29 is going to be this, amen. 04:32 So that's what he does. 04:33 He goes by predictability, 04:34 but God knows what's on your mind. 04:36 But do you know that many times we don't even know 04:38 what's on our mind. 04:41 Is the heart deceitful? 04:43 Is it wicked? Who can know it? 04:46 Now let's talk about shopping. 04:47 I know that this is a men's meeting, 04:49 but we're gonna talk about shopping. 04:52 Now we know our ladies love to shop, amen. 04:54 They love to shop 04:57 and sometimes they kind of hurt us 05:00 when they shop, don't they? 05:02 But we like to shop too. 05:03 Men like to look good and men love their toys, amen. 05:10 Now when you talk about shopping 05:12 and you talk about things that you like to do, 05:14 had you ever wanted to go shopping 05:16 for the latest disease. 05:19 If I say, fellows, I'm having a sale 05:22 on cancer 50% off, diabetes one third, 05:30 if I say how about a stroke, 05:32 we got strokes on the shelf over here, 05:34 do you want these? What would you say to me? 05:38 Absolutely not. 05:40 Scroll down the slide please 05:41 and if you can look at these pictures 05:43 and see the diseases that we are played 05:46 within our nation in abundance heart disease, 05:49 the cancer, the rheumatoid arthritis, 05:52 the diabetes, the stroke. 05:54 We don't plan for these things, 05:56 do we, gentlemen? 05:57 We don't actually live life going from day to day 06:00 saying that I'm going to get some cancer 06:02 before I'm out of here, amen. 06:05 We don't say you know, 06:06 I cannot win until I've heart attack, do we? 06:10 Oh man, I'm so looking forward 06:13 to being crippled over rheumatoid arthritis. 06:16 Does that not sound foolish. 06:17 I am looking forward to injecting myself 06:19 with a needle. I want to be diabetic. 06:22 Does that sound dumb or what? 06:24 Sounds dumb, we would not intentionally shop for that. 06:26 Next slide please. 06:27 But if you're not shopping for health, 06:31 if you're not shopping for health, 06:34 if you're not paying attention to the time 06:36 that you spend with your creator, 06:38 if you're not getting out in the open air, 06:40 if you're not getting daily exercise, 06:43 sunshine, proper rest, loss of water, 06:46 always being tempered in your behavior, 06:48 and just being strict to your nutrition 06:51 guess what you're shopping for. 06:53 Guess what you're shopping for. 06:55 Now I'm not going to say this to be insulting, 06:56 but I'm gonna ask 06:58 how many people here have had a bathe recently? 07:01 Now look around, look around the auditorium. 07:04 I don't see any hands up. 07:06 Now why did I particularly ask about a bathe, 07:07 not because I'm insulting your personal hygiene, 07:10 but because we don't take the time 07:14 to take baths anymore, do we? 07:15 What we do fellows? 07:17 We take showers right, because we're in a hurry. 07:22 I would take one but I'm busy. 07:24 Where you going? I don't know but I'm just busy. 07:27 And that's us, always on the go. 07:29 But do you know what busy stands for? 07:32 Being under Satan's yoke. 07:37 We get so busy 07:39 that we don't have time for the things of God. 07:42 We get so busy that we don't have time 07:46 to spend with our families, with our children, 07:49 with our fellow man, and then when people need us, 07:51 I'm sorry, I want to help you out, 07:53 but I just don't have the time. 07:56 Sickness is killing us because of time. 07:58 Next slide please. 08:00 So you must be shopping for disease. 08:04 Now if you look at that word disease 08:06 and you look at these photographs 08:07 that are associated, when they come out 08:09 you will see that we are not looking forward 08:13 to being latent with disease. 08:17 Look at the word disease, 08:19 "dis" "ease," "uncomfortable." 08:24 Six years ago, I was diagnosed 08:25 with prostate cancer, young age I was 44 years old, 08:29 at 44 years old and had been living a healthy lifestyle, 08:33 people knew me as a healthy man. 08:35 It's like how did Bobby Scales get cancer. 08:38 This guy's being paying attention. 08:40 Do you think I was at ease when they told me that? 08:44 Do you think that my colleagues were at ease 08:46 when I said I'm gonna take a natural approach. 08:48 That really made some people un at ease. 08:52 But that significant thing is I didn't plan that. 08:56 And there are people that are sitting 08:57 under the sound of my voice 08:59 that are going to develop disease 09:01 that they're not planning to develop. 09:02 Did you know that 88% of our population 09:05 in the United States dies from either cardiovascular disease 09:09 or cancer? 09:11 Did you know that a couple of years ago 09:13 the cancer became the number one killer 09:17 under the age of 88. That's phenomenal. 09:21 But guess what, these things are preventable, 09:23 if you believe they're preventable say, amen. 09:26 Now I'm gonna ask you a question regarding illness. 09:29 I'm gonna ask you a question. 09:30 If you were traveling to some place 09:33 like Mexico or India 09:35 somewhere like that they might have contaminated water 09:38 or you are participating in an event 09:41 and you contracted food poisoning, 09:44 would you repeat or continue that same behavior 09:48 if this had happened to you previously? No. 09:53 Are you sure? 09:55 You all know, I'm setting you up, don't you? 09:58 Are you sure? 10:00 Because what we're doing now 10:03 not only will determine how long we will live, 10:06 but it will determine the quality of our life 10:09 and how we will die. 10:12 If you believe that say, amen. 10:14 Now to stop disease two things must occur. 10:17 Two thing must occur. 10:18 Number one we must stop doing 10:21 what is making us sick, amen. 10:23 Seems pretty simple. 10:25 We must stop and we must start doing 10:28 what will make us well. 10:30 Does that make sense? 10:32 But it's easier to said than done 10:35 because the enemy messes with our mind. 10:40 Next slide please. 10:41 So, the question I have for you today is, 10:44 "Is your brain on fire?" 10:48 "Is your brain on fire?" 10:51 A study was done by a professor Paul Thompson 10:55 at UCLA in the year 2001 10:59 where they show people with schizophrenia, 11:01 there was a certain type of MRI scan 11:02 that they can do on the brain 11:04 and when they compared it to normal brains, 11:06 the way that this gentleman described 11:08 it was that it appeared 11:10 as if there was a forest fire in these people's brains. 11:14 They were actually destroying nerve cells 11:17 in their brain. Their brain was on fire. 11:19 Time Magazine stated a few years ago 11:21 that the underlying cause in virtually all disease is, 11:24 does anybody remember what it was? 11:26 Inflammation. Inflammation. 11:30 Now what is the root word of the word inflammation? 11:34 Flame, which means what? 11:36 A fire. Is your brain on fire? 11:39 Now, let's look at a a brain comparison here. 11:41 Now we have here a human, 11:42 a monkey, a cat, a rat, and a frog. 11:46 And in our next slide we have some other animals 11:49 rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, camels, and dolphin. 11:53 Have you noticed, the human brain 11:55 has a lot of folds to it 11:57 and a lot of groves called sulci? 11:59 It is really a complex structure 12:02 and among these animals 12:03 the most similar to the human is the dolphin. 12:07 The dolphin, very intellectual creatures, 12:11 but we have been given a reasoning ability 12:15 that none of these animals have. 12:17 We were given dominion over all of them, 12:20 but do we use that dominion 12:22 to make the choices that we should make. 12:24 So let's talk about how the brain works. 12:26 The brain is composed of one trillion cells. 12:33 Now I didn't see you all get real excited 12:35 when I said, a trillion cells, 12:37 but if I said I was gonna give you a trillion dollars 12:38 you'll be quite excited, amen. 12:41 But a trillion cells and each of those cells 12:44 can have up to 10,000 connections 12:48 each to control the whole body. 12:51 Is that deep? 12:52 That is deep, that is deep. 12:55 So when you talk about the structure 12:56 of our brain alone, 12:57 the structure of our brain alone 13:00 shows that there are connections 13:03 that operate the entire body. 13:05 The brain does not work in isolation. 13:07 It does not work in isolation. 13:08 Every organ in our body is communicating with our brain. 13:12 Every organ in our body, I don't care what organ it is, 13:15 you can go to sleep at night 13:17 and count on your heart to continue beating, amen. 13:20 You can count on your lungs to continue breathing. 13:23 You can count on your digestion 13:24 to continue working. 13:25 All of these things are part of 13:27 what we call the autonomic nervous system. 13:29 Guess what they're connected to? 13:32 Your brain, your brain. 13:34 Now if you don't believe me, cut your head off, 13:39 all those things will stop working guaranteed. 13:42 Next slide. 13:43 So how at risk is the brain? 13:45 The bottom line I want you to get from this slide, 13:47 you don't have to read the whole slide. 13:48 But the bottom line I want you to get from this slide 13:51 is that the life of the flesh is in the what? The blood. 13:56 According to book of Leviticus, 13:57 the life of the flesh is in the blood. 13:59 Now the blood goes 14:00 to the entire body including the brain. 14:04 So whatever is coming to our blood stream 14:07 if there wasn't something 14:08 that we had called the blood brain barrier, 14:12 which kind of filters, what gets to our brain, 14:14 it can't keep everything out, 14:16 but it keeps a lot of things out. 14:18 With the things that are being put in our foods 14:19 today for example, every time we ate a meal 14:23 if we didn't have a blood brain barrier 14:25 we would go berserk. 14:29 Do you believe in a toxic society, 14:31 do you believe that we are in a poison, toxic society. 14:35 Our brains are being poisoned. 14:37 Do you believe that health begins in the mind, 14:40 with a conscious decision to do the right thing, 14:44 health begins in the mind. 14:46 Keep your heart, 14:48 the bottom line was keeping your heart 14:50 when you talk about keeping your heart 14:52 what are we really making reference to? 14:57 The mind, the mind. 14:59 When the Bible speaks of the heart, 15:01 it is speaking of the mind. 15:03 It's speaking of the mind. 15:04 So the commentary speaks of how we purify our heart 15:09 is keeping our mind pure. 15:11 Next slide please. 15:13 Proverbs 4:23, "Keep thy heart with all diligence, 15:17 for out of it are the issues of life." 15:20 What heart is it talking about? 15:24 Is it talking about this heart in our chest 15:27 or is it talking about this brain in our head? 15:32 Brothers, how does the enemy of our souls attack us. 15:38 How does he tempt us? Through our what? 15:42 Through our mind, 15:43 through our five senses, amen. 15:46 Through our five senses, he whether it's-- 15:49 Now think about what happened in the garden, 15:51 the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, 15:54 and the pry of life. 15:56 It is these five senses 15:57 that he always uses to get to us. 16:00 Earlier in the meeting today, 16:02 many of us came forward saying that they are things 16:04 that we're having struggles with 16:05 and David Asscherick let us know 16:07 if we're having struggles at least 16:09 we're still in the game, amen. 16:11 But if you think about 16:12 what your particular struggle might be. 16:14 It's a battle that begins in your mind, amen. 16:16 So let's talk about something 16:17 that's directly connected to the mind, the tongue. 16:21 How is my tongue? 16:24 What does the book of James say about the tongue? 16:26 Let's look at it. 16:28 It says, "Even so the tongue is a little member 16:31 and boasteth great things, especially men, 16:34 we can talk trash, amen. 16:37 We can, behold how great a matter, 16:39 a little fire kindleth with and the tongue is a fire. 16:43 A word of iniquity, 16:44 so is the tongue among our members. 16:48 They defileth what, the whole body. 16:52 The tongue alone can defile the whole body 16:54 and set it on fire the course of nature, 16:56 and is set on fire of hell. 17:01 For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents, 17:05 and of things in the sea, 17:07 is tamed and hath been tamed of mankind. 17:09 But the tongue can no man tame. 17:13 It is an unruly evil full of deadly poison. 17:18 Therewith bless we God, therewith curse we men, 17:20 which are made after the similitude of God." 17:22 These things are not be so, amen. 17:25 Can a fountain bring forth both bitter water and sweet? 17:28 It should not. 17:29 All generation of vipers, Matthew 12:34 says, 17:32 "How can ye be evil, speak good things, 17:35 for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." 17:38 If you want to know a person's character 17:41 listen to their words, amen. 17:44 Listen to their words. 17:45 If you listen to someone's speech, 17:47 if you've any doubts I don't care 17:49 what a person claims to be in this spiritual walk, 17:53 listen to what they're saying and you will know. 17:56 Because that is the heart of the mind speaking. 17:59 Now you know, medicine, 18:00 we medical doctors can make things quite complex, amen. 18:04 Sometimes when you come to our office, 18:06 it's like we're speaking another language. 18:09 Am I telling the truth? 18:10 We start rolling these words that you-- 18:12 And you're like. I mean, you know, I'm a man. 18:14 I'm not gonna admit that 18:15 I don't understand what he just said, 18:17 I'm a man, I'm gonna sit here and, 18:18 you know, play it like I understand. 18:20 So we may listen to everything they say, 18:22 but we're saying, what did he just say? 18:24 It's a foreign language. 18:25 So we're gonna break it down 18:26 the way that you can understand today, 18:28 we're gonna break the brain 18:29 into five different categories. 18:31 Okay, and we're gonna see that all of us fit in here 18:35 somewhere if not now we have it 18:37 sometime in our lives. 18:39 Forgetful is one word, nervous is another word, 18:44 easily distracted is another word, 18:46 feeling blue is another category, 18:48 and fear, trouble sleeping. 18:50 Now, medical science has some big words for these terms, 18:53 or some words that may not sound anything 18:55 like these easy words. 18:57 What would forgetful be, anybody know? 19:02 Dementia, dementia. 19:04 Now if someone calls you demented, 19:06 are they complimenting you? 19:08 Oh no, that is not a compliment. 19:10 If I walk up to this brother and you said, 19:11 brother, you're looking really demented today, 19:13 I don't think he will be real happy with me, amen. 19:16 Because it's not a compliment. 19:17 What about the word nervous, 19:18 what type of word do we use in that, 19:20 for that in medicine? "Anxiety." 19:24 You ever heard the term anxiety, 19:25 neurosis, panic attacks, things like that. 19:28 These are nervous people. 19:30 What about the words easily distracted? 19:32 What reference could that be to? 19:34 Attention deficit. 19:37 And as we know, 19:38 that has exploded in this country, amen. 19:41 It is exploded, we have seen a trend in ADD 19:46 go up linearly just like this. 19:48 Why, why do we go to schools now 19:51 and the teachers have classrooms 19:53 with drawers full of medication. 19:56 Something is missing, something is wrong. 19:59 The next category, feeling blue. 20:01 What word could we be using for that in medicine? 20:04 Depression, very good. 20:05 And what about trouble sleeping? Insomnia. 20:09 You graduated from medical school. 20:11 Have mercy! That's good. 20:13 Now we're gonna use some words 20:15 that I'm gonna try to breakdown to English for you. 20:17 Because, you know, the Bible says 20:19 in Proverbs 4:7, "That wisdom is the principle thing, amen." 20:23 Brothers, do you believe that wisdom is principle. 20:26 Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom, 20:29 but with all thy getting, get understanding. 20:34 If we understand that man has tagged these categories 20:38 as something's wrong with you, 20:41 you know, you're just not cut for this life. 20:44 You're just messed up. 20:46 If we would see that God has a blessing 20:49 in each one of these categories for us, 20:52 if we would but find it. 20:53 If we would find that peril, 20:55 that's what he wants us to do. 20:57 So let's get an understanding of how the brain works? 21:00 The first category, forgetfulness 21:02 there involves a chemical called acetylcholine. 21:06 The second one involves a balance 21:09 between two things called GABA and glutamate. 21:12 The next one involves a balance 21:14 between catecholamine and dopamine. 21:17 Now don't worry, gentlemen, 21:18 you don't have to memorize these words. 21:21 The next category, feeling blue, 21:23 Cortisol and serotonin 21:24 and the last category melatonin. 21:28 Now you all probably heard of some of these things before, 21:31 but we're gonna go into some detail on that. 21:33 I'll try not to keep it way up here, 21:35 but we'll try to keep it real 21:37 at a level that you can understand. 21:38 Next slide please. 21:40 Now we will see, if I ask you to guess, 21:44 which of these categories. 21:45 Now some of you all-- How many of you 21:47 have ever heard me speak before? 21:48 Raise your hands. 21:49 Okay, those people probably 21:52 should have warned you about me. 21:54 But if you had to guess 21:55 which of these categories I was in, 21:56 which would you have guessed? 21:59 Would you have guessed that one? 22:01 If we were back in the old days, 22:04 back when I was a kid many years ago, 22:06 I would have been diagnosed with ADD. 22:10 Now is that a curse or is it a blessing. 22:13 It's actually a personality type, 22:15 that Satan has let us attack our children 22:18 and many adults as if it is a curse. 22:22 You're gonna learn today that these people 22:24 are some of the most blessed people on the planet 22:27 when they are in balance, amen. 22:30 Let's look at addiction tendencies. 22:31 I'm not gonna read through this whole slide, 22:33 but I want you to see that certain brain chemicals 22:36 when they are out of balance 22:37 can lead to certain addictions. 22:40 Some of these addictions are known 22:43 and very unhealthy things and some of these addictions 22:46 are actually things that we want to be 22:49 a far away from, amen. 22:52 Just look at them, now most of you 22:54 all probably know from the last slide, 22:56 what category you fall into 22:58 or have fallen into at some point in your life. 23:00 So, I'm gonna ask you to be honest. 23:02 If you saw out of those five categories 23:05 something that is currently you 23:07 or has been you in the past, please raise your hand, 23:09 raise your hand, raise them high, fellows. 23:12 Look around the room, 23:13 all of us, all of us have been out of balance 23:16 at some point in our lives and the rest of us 23:18 are probably just too much of a man to admit it. 23:22 Next slide please. 23:23 The benefits of acetylcholine, 23:26 these people take pleasure in anything involving words, 23:29 ideas, they're very good communicators 23:32 and they're sociable. 23:34 These people are ideal people to become counselors, 23:37 religious leaders, mediators, 23:40 yoga instructors, public service organization, 23:43 artists, actors, writers, 23:45 you need a good memory 23:47 for these types of professions, amen. 23:49 Would you want somebody, 23:50 let's say that you were involved in 23:52 some type of dispute with a job or labor union, 23:55 whatever and there's someone 23:58 they're standing in court with you 24:00 whose the mediator? 24:03 Let's even think of Jesus as being our mediator. 24:06 If you came there before the judge 24:08 or before our Heavenly Father, 24:10 and the mediator turned to you and said, 24:12 by the way, what's your name? 24:15 Why are you here? I don't remember. 24:17 Would you have an issue with that? 24:20 Our memory is important, is it not? 24:22 One of the things that our memory 24:23 is really important regarding is 24:25 being able to refrain from sin. 24:29 Thy word have I hid in my heart, finish it. 24:34 That I might not sin against thee. 24:36 Memory is so important. Next slide. 24:38 Now we need to talk about 24:39 some things that we are ingesting on a regular basis 24:41 and we don't even realize 24:43 that it's setting our brain on fire, 24:46 that it's creating inflammation. 24:47 How many of you would ever eaten something 24:49 that are on the label, those of you that read labels, 24:51 that says natural flavoring, raise your hand. 24:53 Okay, how many of you 24:55 in your lifetime have ever ingested NutraSweet. 25:00 How many of you all have ever seen something 25:02 that says hydrolyzed vegetable protein on label. 25:06 All of these things contain excitotoxins. 25:11 We've heard of the word MSG before, amen. 25:14 MSG is an excitotoxin. 25:17 So what's wrong with excitotoxins. 25:19 They'll excite me, they'll excite you all right. 25:21 They will set your brain on fire. 25:23 Excitotoxins kill brain cells within 18 to 24 hours. 25:31 Kills them. Fries them, destroys them. 25:36 Now, gentlemen, I don't know about you, 25:38 but I want to hold on to all the brain cells I can, amen. 25:42 We should not be willingly just saying okay 25:45 well, I'm going to eat this thing, 25:47 I mean we've been eating stuff 25:48 since the garden getting us in trouble, amen. 25:51 The first thing involved what? 25:54 Food, amen. 25:58 So we really, really, really, really have to be aware 26:00 of what these things are doing to us. 26:02 Let's talk about Cortisol. 26:04 We've heard about Cortisol 26:05 because it's the hormone that's related to stress. 26:10 We see commercials now they talk about the Cortisol, 26:13 belly, and all these different types of things. 26:15 Cortisol is a very, very, very important hormone. 26:18 But did you know that elevated Cortisol 26:21 will destroy your memory. 26:25 Did you know that Cortisol 26:27 will destroy the part of the brain 26:29 and helps you to learn new facts? 26:31 Did you know that Cortisol is a neurotoxin 26:35 just like the excitotoxins. 26:37 But you would say, doc, didn't God make Cortisol? 26:41 Yes, he did, but did he ever mean for us 26:43 to be under as much stress as we are right now. 26:47 What do you think? 26:50 I'll give you a scenario. 26:52 There is a zebra 26:54 who's hanging out in the prairies of Africa 26:57 and he's just having a good time 26:59 munching on the grass, just chilling. 27:03 He hears a noise and he looks up 27:05 and there's a lion charging at him. 27:08 Brothers, is he stressed? 27:11 To the max, to the max, what has to happen now. 27:16 He must run, he must run, 27:19 you think those stress hormones 27:20 are kicking in right now. 27:21 You ever had to go up in front of crowd of people 27:23 or do something that you're not comfortable with 27:25 and you feel your heart drop down into your stomach 27:28 and you get shaky and all these-- 27:30 those are the stress hormones being released. 27:33 Someone makes you so angry that you just get flushed, 27:36 those are the stress hormones being released. 27:38 You are actually recirculating things 27:41 to different parts of the body. 27:43 When the zebra is running from the lion, 27:47 digestion is not important, amen. 27:51 The blood is now routed from the intestine to the limbs 27:54 to make them strong. 27:56 When the zebra has to see where 27:58 it's going the pupils are dilating. 28:00 It is not now concentrating on I wonder if me and my spouse 28:04 will be mating this evening, amen. 28:07 So stress starts destroying all of this stuff 28:10 because the priority is dealing with stress, 28:12 but guess what, we're too stressed today. 28:15 So, with the zebra it would have been 28:16 over in a few minutes, amen. 28:19 It would have been over in a few minutes 28:20 one way or the other. 28:23 What do I mean by that? 28:25 Either in a few minutes he got away 28:27 or he became lunch, amen. 28:29 But either way the Cortisol levels 28:31 are now able to calm down because the event is over. 28:34 But gentlemen, we're walking around 28:35 with elevated Cortisol levels all the time. 28:38 Do you believe that, we're very stressed? 28:41 Let's talk about one particular area 28:43 of the brain the hippocampus. 28:44 The hippocampus is the part of the brain 28:47 that is important for learning and memory 28:49 and what you're gonna learn key 28:51 about this hippocampus today is something 28:53 that they don't teach us 28:55 and something that the devil does not want us to know. 28:59 He does not want us to understand this 29:01 because we will found out 29:02 that we have unlimited power in God, 29:05 if we learn this. Next slide please. 29:08 The hippocampus if we go on this slide 29:10 and we see that hippocampus is located 29:15 on the underside of the brain 29:16 and this arrow will show you 29:18 that it is a very small area 29:20 in comparison to the entire brain. 29:22 There's another area there called the amygdala 29:25 that's in close relation to it, 29:26 you just see the arrow pointing to it, 29:28 but the hippocampus itself is not a big area. 29:31 Now when you think about the fact 29:32 that all of the data, all of the things 29:35 that you have experienced in your life 29:37 are stored in that brain, is stored in the brain. 29:42 Your brain is greater than any super computer 29:45 that they could ever build. 29:46 You think we can build something better than God. 29:49 No way, no way. 29:51 The hippocampus, I want you to pay attention 29:53 to the yellow words on this slide 29:55 and listen to the hippocampus. 29:56 The hippocampus is also the area 29:59 where most of the neurons that are involved in memory 30:05 are regenerated throughout the entire lifetime. 30:12 What's the key word in there? Regenerated. 30:17 Are we not lead to believe that, 30:19 oh as I get old I'm just not suppose to remember stuff 30:22 like I used to. 30:25 Isn't that what we talk? 30:26 Oh, I'm just old and forgetful may be I'm-- 30:28 We make jokes about it, 30:29 oh may be I'm getting the Alzheimer's. 30:32 Do you know that's what the enemy wants you to believe. 30:35 Do you know he want you to believe that 30:36 you cannot remember the word of God 30:38 like you used to. 30:40 Do you know that you have the ability 30:42 to regenerate that memory for the rest of your natural life? 30:47 Not only that, but the hippocampus 30:49 is also involved in brain plasticity. 30:53 What do you I mean by plasticity? 30:57 Right, flexible. 30:59 That means your brain has gear. 31:01 Now you know we, especially as men 31:02 can be very rigid, amen. 31:05 Are there not times that our significant 31:08 other may even be right about something 31:10 and we're not gonna admit it. 31:12 Because I'm a man, I'm standing my ground. 31:16 Or there are times when the Holy Spirit speaks to us 31:18 and we know, we know, I got one brother busting up, 31:23 I must have really touched a nerve with him. 31:25 We know that we are too rigid, 31:30 we know that the Holy Spirit is dealing with us 31:32 on a certain area that we know we need to change, 31:35 but our brains are too rigid, our minds are too rigid. 31:39 The Bible has a particular word for that 31:42 and he referred it to as the Pharaoh 31:44 and the Israelites. 31:45 Many times using this word, we're stiff necked. 31:49 Brothers are we stiff neck sometimes, amen. 31:52 So, if we look at this diagram of the brain 31:54 in a 27 year old and an 87 year old, 31:58 you'll see in that 87 year old that's on your left, 32:02 that there's a big space, 32:05 black space around that hippocampus area 32:08 because that hippocampus has degenerated. 32:10 Do you think this gentleman has a good memory? 32:13 No, he does not, 32:14 but the question I ask you today, 32:16 after what you've learned is, does this have to happen. 32:20 No it is not. 32:22 It's a choice, it's a choice, amen. 32:28 It's a choice. 32:29 Next slide please. 32:31 Good news, we don't have to become demented. 32:34 We hear them talk about all the time 32:35 we hear about all the essential fatty acids, 32:38 omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids, 32:40 get it from fish, fish, fish, fish. 32:42 Do we hear that? 32:43 As some people that are trying to be vegetarians 32:46 because the vegetarian diet has been proven 32:48 over and over and over again to be the healthiest diet. 32:51 Oh, I got to get, 32:52 but I got to get my omega 6 is very rich in fish, 32:55 sunflower seeds, flaxseeds, amen. 32:59 They have the same omega 6 33:01 and omega 3 fatty acids in them. 33:04 It's much less expensive and you won't get the mercury 33:07 that you do in the fish. 33:09 Also we need to address insulin resistance issues, 33:12 when we talk about insulin resistance, 33:14 we are in a society now 33:16 that is just burdened with diabetes, amen. 33:19 Type 2 diabetes is rapid. 33:21 Do you realize that 33:22 between creation in 1980 in this country 33:25 about six million people were diagnosed with diabetes. 33:29 And between 1980 and 2000 that number doubled. 33:37 It doubled. 33:39 These people are insulin resistant people 33:41 because of the junk foods 33:43 they we're eating were making too much insulin 33:45 and insulin has been proven to be 33:47 a pro-inflammatory hormone. 33:50 Now let's break that word up if your brain is on fire, 33:55 do you want something 33:56 that's going to encourage inflammation. 34:00 Yeah, unless you want to burn it up, 34:02 unless you want to just told you get rid of it 34:04 and also on the slide, it talks about 34:06 lowering Cortisol levels, 34:07 so it all comes back to God's plan for help. 34:10 It all comes back doing the right things for our body. 34:13 Next slide please. 34:15 Now, who is the person 34:16 that fits in this acetylcholine profile? 34:19 Usually over 40 they feel that 34:21 their memory is not sharp as it used to be, 34:22 they forget the names of the people, 34:24 they might have a family history of dementia, 34:26 they might have a personal history 34:27 of head trauma, 34:29 and they can't learn new things like they used to. 34:32 The Bible says that when Moses died, 34:35 he was how old? 34:37 A 120 years old. 34:39 They said that his eye was not dim, 34:41 nor had his natural force abated. 34:43 Does it sound like he degenerated. 34:46 Does it sound like he had memory problems. 34:48 The Bible says that he climb to the top of mount Nebo 34:52 at a 120 years old to see the promised land 34:55 before he died. 34:56 Gentlemen, we ought to have sharp brains 34:59 and sharp bodies no matter what our age, 35:02 do you believe that? If you believe that say amen. 35:04 All right. Let's go to the next category. 35:07 Nervous. Next slide please. 35:10 When we look at this glutamate and GABA 35:13 that have to be in balance. 35:14 When they're out of balance you see certain symptoms. 35:16 The glutamate out of balance can lead to chronic pain, 35:20 mood lability, mood swinging back and forth, 35:22 mania, panic, and headaches. 35:25 And when the GABA is out of balance 35:26 it can lead to anxiety, depression, restlessness, 35:30 and sleep disturbances. So God is a God of balance. 35:35 People with this GABA imbalances 35:37 actually comprises about 50% of the world's population. 35:42 I want you to look at this, 50% share this. 35:45 They are the most dependable people. 35:47 Now tell me if these are people 35:48 that you want to be involved in your life, 35:51 the dependable people, the consisted people, 35:53 the people that have sociability, 35:56 the people that are concerned for others, 35:58 the people who are organized. 36:02 Dependable people are those the type of people 36:04 that we want to be involved in our lives, 36:07 are those the type of people we want to be. 36:09 These are the type of people that have 36:11 an affinity for professions 36:12 like administrators, accountants, 36:14 security officers, nurses, technicians, homemakers, 36:19 and these people should avoid alcohol 36:20 and marijuana. Guess what? 36:21 We all should avoid alcohol and marijuana, amen. 36:25 Should get plenty of exercise. 36:27 Runners, a lot of runners, you see people that, 36:29 all of us have seen people, it doesn't matter rain, 36:32 sleep, snow, it doesn't matter. 36:35 They're out there running. 36:36 These people actually get a high from running. 36:39 We can actually balance certain hormones 36:41 that may be efficient by getting exercise. 36:44 Next slide please. 36:45 Glutamate, when it's out of balance 36:47 we can actually see neurological problems 36:48 like seizures, like migraine headaches, 36:51 Neuropathic pain, Parkinson's disease, 36:54 ALS, Alzheimer's, psychiatric problems 36:57 like bipolar disease, schizophrenia, 37:00 we talked earlier about the brain being 37:02 on fire in schizophrenias, 37:05 post traumatic stress disorder, 37:07 refractory depression, you try to treat these people 37:10 when the depression is refractory, autism. 37:13 Now we know that everything today is treated 37:17 as if it's a drug deficiency, amen. 37:20 You all have heard of the condition. 37:22 I'm gonna to use the big word first 37:23 and then I'm gonna to translate it to English. 37:25 Hyperlipidemia, high cholesterol, amen. 37:29 How many people have heard of that? 37:31 High cholesterol, high triglycerides. 37:33 And we're told that these things 37:34 led to heart attacks and this and that than any other, 37:37 but we treat hyperlipidemia 37:40 like it's a lipitor deficiency disease, amen. 37:43 We treat cancer like it's a 37:45 radiation deficiency disease, right. 37:47 We treat allergies like they're 37:49 Claritin deficiency disease. 37:51 Everything is treated as if it's a drug deficiency, 37:54 the devil has pushed us into be a pill taking society 37:59 rather than a lifestyle modifying society, amen. 38:04 There are certain vitamins, 38:05 B vitamins they found that B6, 38:08 the pyridoxine deficiency 38:10 will actually lower the seizure threshold. 38:13 People that have this deficiency are more 38:15 likely to have seizures. 38:16 People that are on birth control pills 38:18 can develop this deficiency very quickly. 38:21 So many of the medications that we're taking 38:23 actually eating up other things 38:24 in the body and in the brain. 38:28 Next slide please. 38:29 So who benefits from this GABA 38:31 and glutamate being imbalanced, 38:34 the people who frequently feel irritable or women with PMS, 38:38 or child who has tantrums 38:39 and adult with explosive behavior, 38:42 temper problems, people that have migraines, 38:45 people that have mood swings, 38:47 people that have anxiety attacks, 38:49 and people that have a history of physical 38:51 or emotional trauma. 38:53 Many times people's brain hormones 38:56 are out of balance, 38:57 because they've been through something. 39:00 We never know what people have been through, amen. 39:02 We never know, we see the end result and assume, 39:06 try to assume we know what's going on with these people, 39:08 but many times we don't. 39:10 Isaiah 26:3 says, "Thou will keep him 39:13 in perfect peace whose what, 39:15 whose mind is stayed on thee 39:18 because he trusted in thee." amen. 39:22 So now let's go to next category. 39:24 Easily distracted, those darned ADD people. 39:28 Now there are two different chemicals 39:31 that can be out of balance. 39:32 Norepinephrine, or dopamine. 39:34 And whether you're talking about ADD, 39:36 Attention Deficit Disorder 39:38 or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, 39:41 you can see anxiety associated with the panic attacks, 39:44 you can see depression, fatigue, 39:46 concentration difficulties, low motivation, 39:48 depression, substance abuse, 39:50 diminished libido, Parkinson's, sleep problems, 39:53 these people can have all sorts of problems. 39:55 Next slide please. 39:56 And here, I'm not even go through them all, 39:59 you see a whole laundry list of things 40:01 that can exist in these people 40:03 that have been diagnosed as being easily distracted. 40:08 Now, I want you to look at this slide 40:10 and say, let me look at this thing 40:13 and see what would be 40:14 the exact opposite of this name. 40:18 If a person goes from easily distracted 40:20 to being the most focused person 40:22 that you know, if they don't have mood swings 40:25 will they become extremely calm, 40:27 if they stop performing poorly in school, 40:29 will they become intellectual giants 40:32 like Albert Einstein, 40:36 like Henry Ford, 40:38 even Bill Clinton has ADD. 40:41 These very highly successful people, 40:43 these people are--even Forbes magazine stated 40:46 these people are 300% more likely 40:50 to start their own businesses. Why? 40:53 Because they got a lot of energy, 40:54 they got a lot of drive. 40:56 But God needs it in balance. 40:58 Next slide please. 41:00 Dopamine imbalance, they thrive on energy, 41:02 they're very strong-willed people, 41:03 they know exactly what they want. 41:07 They're interested in knowledge, 41:08 they're interested in competition. 41:10 These people have the tendency to become doctors, 41:12 scientists, researchers, inventors, engineers, 41:14 generals, architects. 41:17 So things that we've been talking, 41:21 wow, these people are messed up people. 41:24 They're just all messed up. 41:25 These can be some of the most 41:27 highly successful people in the world 41:29 if they would do the right thing 41:31 with that personality that God has blessed them with, amen. 41:36 So there's a workup. 41:38 We found that people that have ADD, 41:40 and you won't get this checked too 41:42 often in conventional medicine 41:43 and it's not our doctor's fault 41:45 we're not trained in this way. 41:46 But many of these people 41:48 are suffering from heavy metal poison, 41:51 that should be checked. 41:52 Thyroid function should be tested, 41:54 their iron levels, their lipid profiles, 41:55 are they getting enough the essential fatty acids, 41:57 do they have all sensitivities. 42:00 What are the levels of certain minerals, 42:03 all disease, gentlemen, all disease 42:05 and I don't bite my tongue when I say this. 42:08 All disease is from two things and only two things. 42:12 I don't care if it's called cancer, 42:14 fibromyalgia, arthritis, diabetes, stroke, 42:18 I don't care what the name of it is. 42:21 All disease is from two things. 42:23 Too many toxins, do you believe we're toxic, 42:27 do you believe that we live in a toxic world say, amen. 42:31 And too few nutrients. 42:34 We don't get enough nutrients to offset these toxins, 42:37 Senate document number 264 42:40 at the 74th Congress second session, 1936, 42:44 stated that our soil was depleted of minerals then. 42:48 It's stated that our stomachs are not big enough 42:50 to get all that minerals that we should be getting, 42:52 so we really need to be paying attention, 42:54 but this is why we're seeing 42:55 all of these degenerative diseases. 42:58 Let's talk about this EPA DHA thing again, 43:00 EPA DHA deficiency, 43:03 learning disabilities have been linked 43:05 to not having enough of these essential fatty acids. 43:08 Now to know that you can correct 43:10 the learning disability by eating walnuts, 43:14 by eating flaxseeds, by eating sunflower seeds, amen. 43:18 Instead of taking the drug, reduced visual acuity 43:21 and visual tracking increased aggression, 43:24 increased risk of depressive disorders. 43:27 Deficiency is always toxicity and deficiency. 43:30 Next slide please. 43:32 Treatment of childhood depression, 43:34 omega 3 fatty acids may have therapeutic benefits 43:37 in childhood depression. 43:38 This is what a scientific study show. 43:41 Omega 3 fatty acids may not benefit children, 43:44 they definitely benefit children. 43:47 These are scientific facts, 43:49 the thing about science is that true science will never, 43:53 I repeat, will never contradict 43:55 the word of God, amen. 43:58 Do you believe that? It will never contradict. 44:00 Now man will take science and pervert it 44:03 and try to make it into something that it's not. 44:06 But true science will never contradict the word of God. 44:09 Green tea, green tea has actually been found 44:13 to augment brain dopamine levels 44:16 and reduce plasma norepinephrine, 44:18 it brings about balance in these people 44:20 that have this so called disorder. 44:21 Next slide please. 44:23 Actually they found that Theanine, 44:24 which is a substance in green tea 44:26 that balances out the caffeine 44:28 a lot of people won't drink green tea 44:29 because of the caffeine, 44:31 but God always make his things complete 44:33 and the Theanine has a calming affect 44:35 where the caffeine is excited towards, 44:36 so they balance one another. 44:38 But they have found that this influence 44:39 is more alpha waves in the brain, 44:42 which will cause more relaxation, 44:44 you can visualize better and you become more creative. 44:48 God is quite the pharmacist with the FARM, amen. 44:53 All right next one, feeling blue, serotonin. 44:56 Serotonin is knows as the happy hormone, amen. 45:00 People that have serotonin levels, 45:02 these are the kind of people you see, 45:03 what you know we don't see anymore, 45:05 we don't see people walking down the street, 45:09 you see just see people whistling, just happy. 45:11 Do you see that much anymore? 45:13 Very, very rarely, 45:15 because so many of us are out of balance. 45:18 But we don't have homeostasis or balance, 45:21 we don't sleep well, it can make our appetite, 45:24 we can have eat too much food, 45:26 to try to raise our serotonin levels. 45:28 Gentlemen, you're gonna see a slide later on, 45:30 it's gonna tell you where most of the serotonin 45:31 in the body is. 45:33 Our mood is affected, 45:34 our social engagement is affected, 45:38 we get depressed, anxious, 45:39 obsessive compulsive, 45:40 we're more sensitive to pain, 45:42 or aggressive we have sleep disorder, 45:43 all these things can happen 45:45 when you don't have a balance in the happy hormone. 45:47 Next slide please. 45:49 So, these people know how to live in the moment. 45:51 They're impulsive, they like to try new things, 45:53 they love to play play, play, 45:56 and they have good motor skills. 45:58 These types of people go into things like athletics, 46:01 construction workers, hair stylist, 46:02 computer programmers, movie stars, photographers, 46:05 but we need to avoid things like the PCBs, 46:07 pesticides, plastics, mercury in fish. 46:10 Now did you know that 46:12 none of us can avoid the toxins in our society? 46:15 They're ubiquitous, they're everywhere. 46:18 The electricity, that's generating 46:19 the lights in this place, 46:21 80% of electricity is from the burning of coal. 46:26 Anybody know what the byproducts 46:27 of burning coal are? 46:29 Arsenic and mercury. 46:32 It's not just in the water, it's not just in the fish, 46:34 it's in the air. 46:35 And some of us just don't have the genetic ability 46:37 to clean these things out as well. 46:38 I was found prior, I'm sorry, 46:42 I was found after my cancer diagnosis 46:44 to have 10 heavy metal poisonings. 46:48 Lead, mercury, cadmium, antimony, 46:51 arsenic, and so on 46:53 and two of these heavy metals are implicated 46:55 as causes of prostate cancer. 46:58 The Bible says in the Book of Proverbs 47:00 of course, the curse cause of this shall not come. 47:03 So let's look at other things with serotonin imbalance 47:05 major depression, 47:06 post traumatic stress disorder, 47:08 panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, 47:10 autism, and schizophrenia. 47:13 These are all things that result 47:15 from serotonin being out of balance. 47:16 So, how happy are you? 47:18 I know now that you've heard of the hormone serotonin 47:21 where is most of it located in the body, 47:23 does anyone know? 47:27 Most of the serotonin in the body 47:29 is located in the intestine, in the intestine. 47:36 I won't even make you wait 47:37 until the end of the talk, it's in the intestine. 47:40 And this is what we so link pleasure to food. 47:47 Now you all know I'm telling the truth. 47:49 There are certain foods that we, hmmm and then, 47:55 you know, when the guys looks at us 47:57 and we'll say I'll have what he's having, amen. 48:01 Now there are many ways that we can measure 48:02 the serotonin Cortisol balance. 48:05 We can check salivary levels of Cortisol. 48:08 We can check the DHEA levels in the blood. 48:10 We can check vitamin D levels 48:12 and we can check the levels of folic acid 48:14 in the red blood cells. 48:15 All of these things have to do with us 48:18 having enough of the good stuff in our bodies 48:22 and very small amounts of the bad stuff 48:25 and if these things are not in balance we're messed up. 48:27 Look at these things, 48:28 the activated form of folic acid, 48:31 vitamin B12, DHEA, vitamin D 48:34 5-hydroxytryptophan, St. John's Wort. 48:36 These are things that will keep the serotonin in balance. 48:39 Next slide please. 48:40 Now, serotonin is very, very important 48:45 and dependent upon a B vitamin called folic acid. 48:49 Low folic acid can cause depression alone. 48:54 Any vitamin or mineral deficiency 48:55 in your body can cause a physiological disorder. 48:59 Next slide please. Folic acid. 49:02 They have observed that administration of this-- 49:04 Now, get this, administration of folic acid 49:08 with an SSRI, 49:10 which is a type of medication antidepressant, 49:13 made the antidepressant work better. 49:16 Hello, gentlemen, what does that tell you. 49:21 Which would you take? 49:22 Would take them in combination 49:24 or would you take may be just the folic acid. 49:28 Earlier today we looked up the drug, 49:31 the antidepressant called Zoloft. 49:34 Anybody here heard of Zoloft? 49:36 Very, very popular antidepressant. 49:38 We looked up the two most serious side effects 49:41 associated with Zoloft. 49:42 Do you know what they are? 49:44 Number one is suicidality. 49:49 Doctor, I feel better, but I want to kill myself. 49:56 Number two is worsening of your depression. 50:01 Anytime you put a foreign substance 50:03 in the body to block, to block 50:06 the way the body is normally supposed to work, 50:08 you're gonna have a problem. 50:09 Vitamin D has been linked to mood disorders. 50:12 Vitamin D, where should we get most of our vitamin D. 50:16 From the Sun, but they have convinced us 50:18 that the Sun is not healthy for us, amen. 50:20 Oh, don't go in the Sun you'll get cancer. 50:23 Vitamin D has been found not to just be a vitamin, 50:27 but it's actually a hormone. 50:28 It has many implications and how it works in the brain. 50:31 They did a study called the Tokyo knock out study, 50:33 where they found obsessive behaviors in people 50:35 that were low in vitamin D. 50:37 Vitamin D is also been associated with 50:39 higher risk of cancer with heart disease, 50:43 with autoimmune disease, with strokes, 50:45 it is an awesome hormone 50:48 that we need to be getting enough of 50:49 and we're not supposed to be getting it 50:50 in cow's milk, amen. 50:54 We're not supposed to be getting it in cow's milk, 50:56 that is a synthetic form of vitamin D 50:59 plus we're not supposed to be drinking 51:01 the milk of another animal. 51:02 We're the only animal 51:04 that drinks the milk of another animal 51:06 and we're the only animal that drinks any milk 51:09 after we have been weaned. 51:12 Did you know that? 51:13 Let's look at serotonin boosting foods. 51:15 Now I highlighted some in particular. 51:17 Because we always hear, oh if you want 51:19 high serotonin levels eat turkey. 51:20 Turkey will make you happy 51:22 and avocado will make you happier. 51:26 Oh chocolate, chocolate just makes me feel 51:28 especially our ladies they love chocolate. 51:31 I tell you there's an estrogen chocolate link, amen. 51:36 Guys love pizza, women love chocolate. 51:39 But guess what, oat flakes, 51:42 oats will raise your serotonin levels 51:44 almost twice as much as chocolate will. 51:47 Next slide please. 51:49 So a natural approach, 51:50 we need to basically control stress in our lives 51:54 to keep that Cortisol and serotonin in balance. 51:59 So now let's go to the trouble sleeping. 52:03 Sixty million Americans, is that a lot of people, 52:08 that's a lot of people, 52:09 sixty million Americans suffer 52:10 from disturbed sleep characterized 52:12 by functional impairments during the day. 52:14 If you don't sleep well at night 52:18 you're not gonna function well the next day. 52:19 Is that common sense, brothers? 52:21 Common sense, but this number is actually low, 52:25 because most people that have sleep disturbances 52:27 never go to the doctor. 52:28 If you look at this next slide 52:30 that talks about insomnia there has been a 30% to 40% 52:33 prevalence of episodic insomnia, 52:35 that means that many of us probably most of us 52:39 have had problem sleeping for one reason 52:41 or another at some point in our lives, amen, 52:45 10% to 15% of people suffer from chronic insomnia, 52:49 chronic insomnia. 52:51 And there is a significant association 52:53 with anxiety and depression. 52:56 Our body's on what you call a zirconium rhythm. 52:58 Anybody know what a zirconium rhythm is? 53:00 It's a clock, it's a clock. 53:02 Our body is on an automatic clock 53:04 and that clock basically says we should work during the day 53:09 and we should sleep at night. 53:12 There is a study called the nurse's health study 53:14 that demonstrated that nurses 53:16 that work the midnight shift develop cancer twice as much, 53:20 cancer of the breast twice as much as the women 53:21 that work the day shift 53:22 with all other risk factors being the same. 53:25 So things like seasonal affective disorder, 53:26 where we don't have any sunlight to make vitamin D 53:28 and serotonin, shift workers, 53:30 jet lag all of these things will disturb our sleep. 53:33 Next slide please. 53:34 Now we got drugs, as you can see from this list, 53:37 we've got many drugs that we can give you for insomnia, 53:41 but are we treating the cause of the problem. 53:46 And if something is going to give you, 53:48 did you know these drugs can give you a hangover. 53:50 Did you know that these drugs can actually give you amnesia? 53:54 Did you know that you can get addicted to these drugs? 53:58 And did you know that you can actually have rebound insomnia 54:02 from these drugs. It's not good for you. 54:05 Insomnia, they've found from studies 54:09 that insomnia can be battled very well 54:11 with a hormone called melatonin. 54:15 Anyone here ever heard of melatonin? 54:17 Where do we produce it? In the brain. 54:20 So we'll go and called the pineal gland. 54:21 Now what turns to melatonin? 54:25 Serotonin, in other words 54:28 we got to be happy to sleep. 54:31 If you don't make serotonin, 54:33 you can't convert it to melatonin. 54:35 So the two go hand in hand. 54:37 Next slide please. 54:38 So sleep hygiene recommendations 54:40 eliminate caffeine and nicotine. 54:41 Wow, it kind of sounds like the health message. 54:44 Reduce alcohol consumption. 54:45 Well, it kind of sounds like the health message. 54:47 Avoid heavy meals prior to bedtime, 54:49 this is science it sounds like a health message. 54:52 Regular exercise, oh it sounds like 54:53 the health message. 54:55 Avoid daytime naps, minimize noise, 54:58 light, and excess temperature. 55:00 Passionflower, traditional herb 55:02 used for its sedative 55:03 and anxiolytic properties that can help 55:06 with sleep and stress 55:07 and it can act just like a drug 55:10 called benzodiazepines with no hangover, 55:14 no side effects. 55:15 I'm not telling you go out and buy it. 55:16 I'm telling you that God has a solution 55:19 for every one of our problems. 55:20 God needs, this is the bottom line. 55:23 God needs our minds in excellent shape 55:25 to have an excellent relationship with Him, 55:27 if you believe that say amen. 55:30 The devil wants our minds, brothers. 55:32 He wants our minds. 55:33 He wants them to be forgetful, 55:35 he wants them to be anxious, he wants them to be depressed, 55:38 distracted, and/or fatigued 55:41 so that he can destroy that relationship with God. 55:44 If he can destroy that relationship with God, 55:46 he can destroy the relationship 55:48 with our fellowmen. 55:49 He wants us to not think about these eight law of health 55:52 called God's plan. 55:54 Godly shall stand with our creator, 55:56 spending time in the open air, 55:57 getting exercise everyday, spending time in the sunlight, 56:01 getting proper rest, drinking lots of water, 56:03 being temperate, which means avoiding everything 56:05 that you know is bad for you and doing the good things 56:08 in moderation and proper nutrition. 56:10 All eight of these must be done equally. 56:12 Some people will call this a new start, 56:14 but they're the same eight doctors and brothers, 56:17 they're free. 56:19 The Bible says in Romans Chapter 12 verse 1, 56:22 very, very familiar passage. 56:24 "I beseech you therefore brethren, 56:25 by the mercies of God, 56:27 that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice. 56:31 We're no good to them dead, 56:32 living sacrifice, totally acceptable unto God, 56:34 which is your reasonable service." 56:37 And be not conformed to this world, 56:39 but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. 56:43 That ye may prove what is that good 56:45 and acceptable and perfect will of God. 56:47 The more time we spend with the God, 56:49 the smarter we get. 56:51 This gentleman say, I don't like, 56:53 I don't like the way I am, I need a transformation. 56:58 I've had to make difficult choices, 57:00 but the transformation that God brings about in health, 57:04 in mind are more than worth it. 57:07 God bless you, gentlemen. Let's pray. 57:11 Heavenly Father, we thank You 57:13 again for these brothers that have come out 57:16 and we thank you for how Your word speaks to us 57:19 through our minds. 57:21 We pray in the name of Jesus 57:23 that our brains would be more flexible, 57:26 more plastic to what you have to say to us 57:28 help us to know 57:30 that the enemy is trying to attack us in these five areas, 57:33 but that we can regenerate and we can renew everyday 57:36 as we spend time with you in your presence, 57:39 in Jesus name we ask and we pray, amen. |
Revised 2014-12-17