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00:17 Did you know that cardiovascular disease is a
00:20 leading cause of death in America? 00:22 Stay tuned to learn how you can live heart attack free! 00:26 I'm Dr. James Marcum, are you interested in 00:29 discovering the reason why? 00:31 Do you want solutions to your health care problem? 00:35 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:37 Well, you're about to be given "The Ultimate Prescription" 00:43 Every year more people are experiencing heart attack; 00:48 more people are having bypass surgeries, 00:50 and more people are experiencing hypertension. 00:52 Dr. Marcum, why is this occurring? 00:55 Well Nick, that's a very good question, 00:57 and we cannot stop there. 00:59 If you look at the health of the world, 01:00 every year, like you said, more heart attacks, 01:02 more strokes, more people with diabetes, 01:05 more people with obesity, 01:07 more people with mental health illnesses. 01:10 If we look, clearly, something is not right, 01:13 and, unfortunately, our medical system primarily 01:17 treats symptoms and not causes. Correct 01:20 And cardiovascular disease is a disease that we're now 01:23 learning more and more about and I was recently 01:26 up at the "Cleveland Clinic" with my friend, Dr. Esselstyn, 01:29 and he had a group of people there that he was giving 01:34 a special diet to and it was a diet that had basically 01:38 no fat in it and he has followed these patients 01:41 for years and he showed that they can reverse heart disease 01:44 and also become heart attack free. Wow! 01:47 Now, I think it's more than just the food... 01:50 I think the food is a very important component of this, 01:52 but I also think it's the stress that's involved, 01:56 and a few people have bad genetics. 01:58 But there's one or two things that we can do today 02:01 to help everyone out there lower their risk of having 02:05 cardiovascular disease or heart attacks. 02:07 What are a couple of things that we can do? 02:09 Well if you look here, I'm going to show a picture 02:12 of an artery and in this artery, 02:16 this is a really healthy artery here, 02:18 and this group of cells that goes around the artery there 02:22 is called the "endothelium," and the endothelium is 02:25 what regulates the size of the artery, 02:28 makes it bigger or smaller. 02:29 Now, unfortunately, let's go to a person that doesn't have 02:33 a very healthy artery and that's 02:35 what a standard American artery looks like. 02:38 Lots of fat in there, lipids, fat gets in there. 02:41 In fact, if you eat more than 10 to 15% of your total 02:46 food that you eat in fat... fat is stored, 02:49 either in the arteries or around the waist and that's not good. 02:53 Years ago, they looked at the Korean soldiers, 02:56 and they noticed that almost all of them had significant 02:59 plaquing in their body and these fellows were just in their 20s. 03:03 So we've discovered that about 90% of heart disease 03:07 is related to the food we eat. Sure 03:10 We eat too much fat... 03:11 The fat has to be stored somewhere. 03:13 It damages this vessel called the "endothelium." 03:16 A doctor named, Dr. Vogel, a few years ago, did a study 03:20 and he looked at the brachial artery, 03:22 that's the artery that's in the arm, 03:23 and he fed these young fellows a high-fat, fast food diet... 03:29 And he found out that when he fed them this diet, 03:32 the artery could not get bigger. Really? 03:34 It could not get bigger and they hypothesized 03:37 that there's something in fat that made a chemical called 03:40 "nitric oxide" go down. 03:43 And nitric oxide is a chemical that makes the arteries bigger. 03:46 So one of the things in cardiovascular disease... 03:48 we have determined fat is our enemy. 03:51 Now, in modern medicine, 03:53 if someone is having a symptom, Nick, 03:54 I'd send them for a heart attack, you know, 03:56 if you're having a heart attack, 03:57 I'd want to have a stent in. A stent - okay. 03:59 Yeah, if you're having a lot of pain when you walk, 04:01 and it's from your heart, I'd want you to have a bypass, 04:04 give them extra blood, but it doesn't fix the problem, 04:07 it treats the symptom. Right 04:10 But we want to get at the cause of the problem... 04:12 One of the causes is too much fat in the diet. 04:15 So simply, what people can do one step at a time is 04:18 try to remove fat from their diet. 04:21 Now that's not so easy is it? 04:22 No, it's really not... in fact, it's quite difficult, 04:25 particularly if you eat out of restaurants, 04:27 and you're not preparing your own food. 04:29 Right, so I think the first thing that I want everyone 04:31 to know is to be aware that you can be your own 04:33 best doctor when you get fat out of the diet... 04:35 because when you get fat out of the diet, 04:37 the nitric oxide levels go up. 04:40 And guess what, the arteries get bigger, 04:43 and if you eat well enough, Dr. Esselstyn, in his study 04:46 that was published just recently, 04:48 has shown that you can actually, in many cases, 04:51 reverse disease. 04:52 Take the plaque and fat out of the arteries. 04:54 It's pretty amazing research, and if we think back 04:58 through the years, there's a famous Dr. Hippocrates 05:02 that says, "Let food be thy medicine, 05:04 and medicine be thy food." 05:06 And it only makes sense that as we eat better, 05:09 it changes the chemistry of the entire body. 05:11 It's like putting the appropriate gas 05:13 in the machine. That's right! 05:14 We weren't made to rely on fat. 05:17 Fat was sort of an emergency storage fuel. 05:19 So the more fat we eat now, we get it stored. 05:22 Now 200 years ago, Nick, we used to exercise 05:24 and burn a lot of fat off, but nowadays, 05:26 we just sit around, we don't do anything. 05:28 We take large amounts of food in fat, 05:31 and it gets stored in our arteries. 05:33 Now Dr. Esselstyn, in his book "Reversing Heart Disease," 05:36 has suggested that we have... virtually if you have 05:39 active disease, zero fat in the diet. 05:42 And he has showed that people can be healthy 05:44 by eliminating fat. 05:45 Most people cannot do that, and I still think that 05:48 if you eat fats from plants, 05:51 that's actually very good for you. 05:53 I was just going ask... what types of fats 05:55 are good for you, what are healthy? 05:57 Well if you have active disease, if you're having 05:59 lots of chest pain, heart attacks. 06:01 I try to get zero fat. Okay 06:04 Now if you just want to stay, 06:06 if you're not having active symptoms, 06:07 I let people eat... I recommend that they eat 06:10 any fat that's not from animals, so from plants. Right 06:17 What are some examples? 06:19 Coconuts, almonds, walnuts, soy has fat in it. 06:24 In fact, even a potato has some amount of fat. 06:27 And if you look at a potato, for instance, 06:29 a potato is about 80% carbohydrates, 06:32 10% protein, 10% fat and that's what the nutrient composition 06:38 that people that are like Peruvians, 06:40 you know, they were people of potatoes. 06:42 You know, they eat lots of potatoes. 06:44 If you think about the Aztecs, they were people of corn, 06:47 and predominantly in corn, it's about 80% carbs, 06:52 10% fat, 10% protein. 06:55 If you think about the people that live in China... 06:57 they like to eat lots of rice. 06:59 Rice is predominantly carbohydrates, 07:02 not much protein, not much fat. Right 07:05 But as the eating of the world has changed, guess what? 07:09 We've acquired more disease because we eat things... 07:12 we mess up this composition that our body is made to handle. 07:15 So why do you think that's been the case in North America, 07:17 we don't eat a diet similar to what you just described, 07:20 why has the change occurred? 07:21 Well, if you look at it, a lot of change happened when 07:24 we - the modern industrial revolution moved in. 07:27 People moved away from the farms into the cities. 07:31 When they moved into the cities, guess what? 07:34 They wanted to have things that were convenient. 07:36 Then all of a sudden things became packaged; 07:38 animals became a big staple of food; 07:41 people began to eat less of the real foods. 07:45 And then the marketing got involved, 07:47 and you know, people market fast food. 07:49 They market these types of animal-based foods. 07:52 And through the years, we've seen more and more 07:53 people eat it and we haven't had alternatives, 07:56 and people have not thought about it. 07:58 But the way we eat, Nick, is not sustainable. 08:01 The reason it's not sustainable is because so many people 08:04 right now are getting diseases from the food they eat. 08:07 That's not a very healthy thing at all. Not at all... 08:10 So in talking about heart disease, 08:13 now a lot of people say, "I can't do this." 08:15 "I can't do this all at once because 08:17 we grew up eating this way." 08:20 So what I tell people is try to make one step at a time, 08:23 and we found out that one of the best foods for the body 08:26 is GREENS! Right 08:28 So greens, when people eat greens it increases a chemical 08:31 called, "nitric oxide." 08:33 It makes the arteries bigger. 08:35 Another thing that greens do, you know, green is chlorophyll, 08:37 because it's green. Sure 08:38 Chlorophyll helps absorb toxins, it has magnesium, 08:42 it helps the bowels work quicker - so you don't absorb 08:45 as many as the bad things. 08:46 So I tell all my heart patients, "Try to eat more greens." 08:50 Kale, spinach, arugula, anything that's green can help, 08:55 and the fresher, the better. Sure 08:57 And if you start eating greens and fill up with that, 09:00 maybe you won't eat as much of the fatty foods 09:02 which trigger disease to come on. 09:04 But, when people start doing this and they realize that 09:06 they can change the chemistry of the body; 09:08 they can change the endothelium from the food they eat. 09:11 Now if you want to learn more, 09:13 there's lot of material out there... 09:15 "The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine," 09:17 pcrm.org if you go to the website by Dr. Esselstyn, 09:23 also the website by Dr. T. Colin Campbell... 09:27 All of these have suggestions that you can start changing 09:30 your diet and thus, taking the disease out of the arteries 09:34 and Dr. Esselstyn, if you can get on his program, 09:36 he can almost guarantee you, you'll make yourself 09:39 heart attack free. 09:41 So one of the best things we can do to help reduce our chance of 09:44 cardiovascular disease, it's put the right 09:46 fuel in our bodies. 09:47 Yes and get fat out of the body, and of course, 09:50 we want to do other things that help the 09:51 cardiovascular system. 09:53 Basically the things that help our arteries are things that 09:56 lower chronic stress. 09:58 We don't want the stress of sitting too many hours. 10:00 We don't want the stress of being dehydrated. 10:03 Also, we don't want mental stress on the body. 10:06 So any type of the stress makes these chemicals 10:08 adrenalin, cortisol which gradually damaged the 10:12 lining of the blood vessel which raises a chance of 10:15 us having cardiovascular disease. 10:16 Now in some countries, they never had heart attacks at all. 10:20 For instance, there are some in the New Guinea highlanders. 10:23 They eat, pretty much, sweet potatoes. 10:25 They don't have heart attacks. 10:26 People in countries like Uganda, where they eat, 10:29 really all they eat is carbohydrates. 10:31 They don't eat fat, they don't have these problems. 10:34 In rural China, we didn't have this problem. 10:36 We also have noted that as parts of the world become 10:39 Westernized, eating more fat, guess what they get? 10:42 They have more cardiovascular disease. 10:45 And guess what, sooner or later, they have a symptom; 10:48 they have to go to the hospital; they have to get a stent; 10:50 they have to have a bypass... 10:51 That's nice and that's a place for that, 10:54 but that doesn't solve the problem. 10:56 Doesn't get at the root of the problem. 10:58 We're just treating the symptoms and if we can get at the 11:00 cause of the problem, we can get at cardiovascular disease. 11:04 Now we've had several questions 11:06 that have come in to our website, 11:08 the heartwiseministries.org site, 11:10 but before we go there, you know, we're working on 11:12 helping everyone with a first aid kit. 11:14 That's right and, you know, first aid is something 11:16 that's important - you want to be 11:18 prepared to serve other people 11:19 when they have a need. Right 11:22 So what are we going to talk about 11:23 out of the first aid kit today. 11:25 What I have today, this is called an "EpiPen," 11:26 right here, this is an EpiPen, this has epinephrine in it, 11:29 and this might be a good thing for people to put in their kit 11:33 because of the fact that a lot of people have allergies 11:37 to peanuts - if you have what we call an 11:39 "anaphylactic reaction" the whole cardiovascular 11:42 system shuts down. 11:43 So this is specifically used for people that have 11:46 lots of allergies. 11:47 I've used it for other things in my history before 11:50 in people that have severe shock. 11:52 Now I wouldn't advise you to do that, 11:53 but mainly it's for people with allergies, peanut allergies, 11:56 a child that gets what we call an "anaphylactic-type reaction." 12:01 And the way this is used, Nick, I'm going to let you do that... 12:04 What you do here is - here are the real examples of it here... 12:09 This is a training module that we can do and it has 12:13 instructions... it says, "Pull off the blue safety release." 12:16 So, you would have that and this one has it too... 12:18 So we pull that off like that and the next thing we do 12:23 is swing firmly and push orange against the outer thigh." 12:29 So you would want to actually 12:31 push this against your outer thigh 12:33 and then you would hold it tight for 10 seconds. 12:36 Now I'm going to pretend this is my thigh. 12:38 Why don't you do it and you need to push it there 12:40 and hold it for 10 seconds. 12:41 Go ahead and push it against your arm 12:43 and hold it for 10 seconds. Push it into my thigh... 12:45 And hold - did you hear it click? 12:47 1- 2- 3- 4- 5, the medicine is going in... 12:51 6- 7- 8- 9- 10... and at that time you're delivering 12:56 adrenalin or epinephrine and that's going to support the 13:00 cardiovascular system and help prevent 13:02 an anaphylactic reaction. 13:04 And you've heard of peanut allergies... 13:06 You've heard of a lot of people being allergic 13:08 to certain things, bees, wasps. 13:11 These are things and this is called an "EpiPen." 13:13 Now, it requires a prescription from your doctor. 13:16 So not anybody can buy this? Not anyone... 13:17 But this might be something good for someone that had kids 13:21 or people that had allergies to bees or insects 13:24 that they would want in their supply. 13:27 Now I had one person that I knew once that had 13:29 such a bad reaction to poison ivy... 13:34 They would almost get anaphylactic, 13:35 and they had to require one of these because what happens 13:38 is they have this extreme systemic reaction; 13:41 a lot of stress chemicals go on because the body is trying to 13:44 fight off this foreign object and the whole 13:47 cardiovascular system collapses; the blood pressure goes down; 13:50 the heart rate goes down; they have this terrible reaction 13:54 and this helps negate that reaction, 13:56 and supports the cardiovascular system. 13:58 Adrenalin is a stress chemical. 14:00 It raises the blood pressure, it constricts the arteries, 14:03 it keeps the blood pressure off 14:05 so people can fight off this bad reaction that they get 14:08 from whatever that offending agent was. 14:10 We see a lot of it with peanuts, a lot of it with bees. 14:13 Those are probably the most common types. 14:15 Now can this be dangerous if it's not used at the 14:17 appropriate time and in the correct person? 14:19 Anything that's not used correctly can be dangerous. 14:21 So yes, if you're just giving it for fun, 14:24 this can be very dangerous because this is adrenalin. Right 14:27 And you wouldn't want to give it to someone unless certain. 14:29 but it's mainly used for people that are having 14:31 anaphylactic reactions, peanut allergies, bee allergy, 14:35 an insect allergy - these people are extremely ill. 14:39 I've seen it used a few times in people that have severe asthma. 14:43 They get an anaphylactic reaction, 14:45 something triggers severe asthma. 14:47 This is in a life-saving situation. 14:51 So then after - say I'm allergic to peanuts and I 14:53 accidentally ingest some peanuts, 14:54 we've administered the EpiPen, what should we do next? 14:57 Well, I would head to the emergency room. Okay 15:00 That would be the next place or get chronic care for this 15:03 in case - you know, this buys you time. That's right 15:05 It doesn't necessarily fix the problem, 15:07 hopefully it will get you over the hump. 15:09 Okay, well I think that's a great piece to have 15:12 in your first aid kit. Yes, another piece to add. 15:14 And if you're allergic to something - peanuts, 15:15 or if your kids are allergic to something, 15:17 talk to your doctor and if see if they would recommend 15:19 that you have an EpiPen in your first aid kit. 15:21 We're going to be right back with some questions 15:23 from our website and Dr. Marcum is going to 15:25 tell us more about how we can avoid cardiovascular disease. 15:28 We'll be back in just a moment... |
Revised 2016-05-24