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Program Code: UP000067B
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00:03 Welcome back! Before the break we were
00:05 talking about first aid kits 00:06 and how we can help care for others, our family, 00:09 and our friends, and we were talking about EpiPens, 00:11 And Dr. Marcum, is there anything else we need to know 00:14 about the proper use of EpiPen. 00:15 Well, you know, one of the things I think is very useful 00:18 for high risk people. 00:19 So high risk people - who would that be? 00:21 Peanut allergies, bee allergies, that kind of thing; 00:24 or people - maybe a teacher, maybe at a school, 00:27 maybe a school nurse. 00:28 One of the things is that does require a doctor's prescription. 00:33 One of the things we notice, it doesn't take a whole lot of 00:35 training, as you saw, it's not that hard to do, 00:38 but they do have expiration dates. Okay 00:40 So this might be something that some people would like to add 00:43 to their first aid kit; others wouldn't. 00:46 So this is something good that I think we can add to our 00:49 knowledge base even if we don't have it in our kit, 00:52 it's something we need to know 00:54 about who might benefit from it. Right 00:56 Now we are talking also about cardiovascular disease, Nick. 00:59 That's right and we've had a number of questions 01:01 coming into the website... 01:03 Well let's hold off on the questions here for a second. 01:04 I just want to make sure that everyone... 01:06 on our program, we like to leave them at least two things 01:09 that they can do today that you can take with you home 01:12 that you can do something to improve your health. 01:14 And #1, realize that cardiovascular disease 01:17 is a problem and we want to meet your need... 01:20 And one of the things we talked about today is 01:22 lower fat in the diet and we get fat from animals. 01:27 So we want to get that as low as we can go, 01:29 and if you're having symptoms, you might want to consider 01:32 zero fat or as close to that. Right 01:34 And so that's negative though, 01:36 you know, a lot of people don't like negatives, 01:38 but let's focus on positives. 01:41 So what is something we can do? 01:42 Let's focus on something we can do. 01:44 GREENS! Eat more greens. 01:47 I like to eat fresh greens because it makes nitric oxide. 01:50 It helps blood vessels around the body - in the heart, 01:53 in the brain, everywhere needs better blood. 01:55 So I try to eat greens; 3 or 4 fresh greens a day. 01:58 What I do Nick, is I just take some spinach or Swiss chard, 02:02 or some type of green and I eat it - now I can eat it raw. 02:06 Now some people that need to make salads can 02:08 make some salads and put some balsamic vinaigrette. 02:11 That doesn't have much fat and just practice on doing 02:14 that and see how you feel. 02:16 If you start eating more greens and less fat, 02:19 you're going to feel better, and all of a sudden you'll say, 02:21 "Man, I do feel better! I can make another change." 02:24 And if you want to learn more, go to one of these websites 02:27 that we talked about... 02:28 You know, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.org 02:32 is an excellent site; Dr. Esselstyn has a 02:34 wonderful site; Dr. McDougall, Dr. Ornish, many of them 02:37 or they can go to our website, heartwiseministries.org 02:40 to move one step at a time to lower their chance 02:44 of having cardiovascular disease. 02:45 Now Nick, I think we're ready to go to the questions. 02:50 Yeah, we have people write in to us on our website, 02:52 and Dr. Marcum and other physicians help answer 02:54 and point people in the right direction 02:56 when it comes to their health. 02:57 And some of the questions we have today on 02:59 cardiovascular disease are pretty interesting. 03:01 One viewer writes: "Is hypertension considered 03:04 cardiovascular disease?" 03:05 Yeah well, it could be, but hypertension to me, 03:09 is a symptom. 03:11 So if a person has high blood pressure, 03:13 I want to know - why do they have high blood pressure? 03:16 You know, Nick, if I put the 03:18 EpiPen in you, your blood pressure 03:19 would go up... I'd have some high blood pressure. 03:21 And the treatment for that would be the EpiPen. 03:23 Now if we needed it to go up, that's a good thing. Sure 03:26 Some people that have chronic pain 03:28 have their blood pressure go up. 03:29 Well, would you want to give them a blood pressure pill? 03:32 Prefer not to take a pill. No, or you'd want to treat 03:34 the underlying problem. That's right 03:35 So, when we talk about high blood pressure, 03:38 it's usually what's causing the underlying problem. 03:41 Now, high blood pressure prolonged - can damage 03:44 things because it makes the arteries weaker, 03:46 it makes the heart... it's like the heart has to 03:48 pump against a lot of pressure. 03:49 And sooner or later the heart gets thick 03:51 and then it gets weak. 03:52 So they call high blood pressure "the silent killer." 03:55 But the key for high blood pressure is fine out the 03:58 reason "why is it high." 03:59 Is it diet, is it stress, is it sleep apnea, is it pain, 04:05 is it worries, some medicines can do it. 04:08 Find out the reason why, and if you can find out 04:10 the reason why and get it down, 04:12 then you're lowering your risk of damaging 04:14 these blood vessels. That's an interesting point. 04:16 You know, I think we often, and I'm sure it's valid, 04:18 that food often causes these things, 04:20 but there are so many others there that you just mentioned. 04:22 Yeah, well we talked about earlier how people that eat 04:25 high fat diets - you know, that damages nitric oxide 04:30 so the arteries don't get bigger. 04:31 In fact, one of the treatments to lower blood pressure, 04:34 if it's diet, is to move towards 04:35 a whole food, plant-based diet, 04:38 and get processed foods out of the diet. 04:40 That can lower blood pressure dramatically, 04:42 and that helps most of the people do better. 04:45 So really, the cause of blood pressure 04:47 is not a blood pressure medicine. 04:49 So the solution is not going to really be blood pressure 04:52 medicines even though there are some conditions - thyroid, 04:55 kidney, artery disease; there are some genetic 04:57 conditions that can cause high blood pressure, 04:59 but most of the ones that I see are lifestyle-related. 05:02 Just extra weight - exercise will lower blood pressure, 05:05 getting the weight off you will lower blood pressure. 05:07 Lots of things can do that. 05:09 You just mentioned "medications with cardiovascular disease," 05:13 we have a viewer who asks: "What are the side effects 05:15 of statins and are there alternatives?" 05:17 That is a great questions and I get that very frequently. 05:21 Statins are medicines that lower 05:23 and stabilize cholesterol in the body. Okay 05:26 And what I tell people, sometimes the benefit of the 05:29 medicine is worth it. 05:31 So if a person has had unstable heart disease, 05:34 high cholesterol, strong family, history, 05:37 I say, they might benefit from a statin - if they're 05:39 not having side effects. 05:41 The most common side effects are damage to the liver, 05:43 muscle problems. 05:44 It can affect your blood sugar. 05:46 It can also even affect the brain - statin sometimes. Really 05:49 But if a person says, "Listen, I'm going to eat a really 05:52 healthy diet," and they get their cholesterol really low, 05:55 they might not need to take a statin. 05:58 So everything, Nick, we put in our body has an input. 06:02 You know, and an input can either be bad or good. 06:05 So the food you put in is either going to be bad for your 06:08 chemistry or good for your chemistry. 06:10 The thoughts are either good or they're bad. 06:12 So, the same thing with the statin - it has a benefit, 06:15 but it has a danger. 06:17 Do the benefits outweigh the risk? 06:19 And I try to ask everyone about that. 06:21 Now, several people I've had with heart disease, 06:23 they get their cholesterol down, they exercise, 06:27 they do everything right and they might not benefit 06:30 as much from a statin as someone that doesn't do anything right. 06:34 And I still want to help the person that doesn't 06:35 do anything right too, and if they're not having a 06:38 side effect, they might benefit from a statin. 06:41 Now some people, their belief system... 06:43 they believe that the medicine is hurting them. Really 06:46 So if a person has a strong belief system, 06:48 and they say, "I don't think the medicine is helping me," 06:50 so no matter what - if they think it's hurting them, 06:53 it is hurting them. It's going to hurt them, yes. 06:54 "As a man thinketh, so he is." 06:57 And there is something called "healing beliefs," 06:59 if you believe in something, then it has some change 07:02 in the brain chemistry and it might help. 07:05 Dr. Herbert Benson, out of Harvard, has studied 07:07 healing beliefs and he has found out that 07:09 if people believe it's hurting them, it is hurting them. 07:11 So there's a belief system that has to be thrown in 07:15 when you talk about statins as well. 07:16 So there's a place for it, but if a person will do 07:19 everything else, maybe they won't have the need for it. 07:22 Okay... Another viewer asks: "Should all people 07:25 who have had a heart attack take a blood thinner?" 07:28 Well, pretty much, I think all people that have 07:31 taken a heart attack, unless they have a side effect 07:33 which is bleeding, should be on some type of blood thinners. 07:37 The most common one is low dose baby aspirin; 07:42 depending on the situation, there are stronger ones. 07:45 You know, Plavix is a stronger one. 07:47 We have higher doses of aspirin. 07:48 But one thing I want to focus on, Nick... 07:50 A lot of people don't realize that other things 07:52 can thin out the blood too. 07:54 You mean some natural ways to thin the blood? Yes 07:55 One of the natural things is having enough water! Really? 07:58 When you get dehydrated, guess what happens 08:00 to the blood...It's thicker! 08:01 Over 80% of the blood is water, 08:03 so if you don't drink, the blood gets thicker. 08:05 STRESS will thicken the blood and make it more likely to clot. 08:10 So the more stress you're under, the more the blood thickens. 08:14 There are things like omega 3-6-9 fatty acids 08:17 which you get in foods like almonds, flax... 08:20 Those things can help thin out the blood too. 08:23 So there are other things out there... 08:25 A lot of people don't even realize this, 08:26 but tomatoes - around the tomato seed is a 08:28 chemical that can help thin out the blood a little bit too. 08:31 So if a person has had a heart attack and they're not 08:34 having a side effect, I usually have them on a 08:37 baby aspirin at least, sometimes more - because I think 08:41 the benefit outweighs the risk of that. Sure 08:44 So every individual, you talk to your doctor, 08:46 and ask him, "What's the benefit, what's the risk, 08:49 and is there anything I can do to benefit myself 08:52 so I might not need to take as much medicine? 08:54 You know, talking about benefits and risks, 08:56 when should a person consider bypass surgery? 08:59 That can be a risky surgery. Yes 09:00 And I do send people for bypass, 09:02 and it's really if a person is having lots of symptoms. 09:06 Let's say they haven't lived very healthy through the years; 09:09 let's say they can't walk up a hill because they have 09:11 lots of chest pain, lots of shortness of breath, 09:14 and we do some testing... 09:15 We do testing called, "stress test and angiograms," 09:18 and they have blockages in many of the arteries, 09:20 well that person might benefit from having a bypass surgery 09:24 not because it fixes the problem, 09:26 but it helps them get out and do more and exercise, 09:30 and have a healthier lifestyle. Right 09:32 That's where it benefits, so at that point, 09:33 I say "there's a risk of the bypass, but the bypass 09:37 benefits probably will outweigh the risks 09:39 because it will help you feel better, do more, 09:41 and also gives an alternative blood supply to the heart. 09:44 So if they did have a heart attack, 09:45 the heart attack seems to be less as severe, 09:48 but I tell them, "It doesn't fix the problem, 09:50 it just treats the symptom." 09:52 So there's a lot of things that there's risk and rewards 09:55 and with medications, there's a lot of risks 09:57 sometimes, but there's also, I'm hearing you say there's 09:59 a lot of natural treatments. 10:01 Well you know, a lot of people don't think that a 10:03 natural remedy would be "moving." Right! 10:05 A natural remedy would be drinking water. 10:07 A natural remedy would be eating healthy foods 10:10 because they have the healing properties too, 10:12 and a lot of people don't think about that, 10:14 but I would rather have them do that than treat symptoms... 10:18 Because symptoms just... they get worse, 10:21 more medicines - we don't fix the problem. 10:23 So today, I want everyone to remember to eat more greens, 10:26 and less fat and it will keep your arteries much healthier 10:30 than if you don't do those things. Right 10:32 Well that sounds like some great advice, 10:33 and we hope that you at home have appreciated this program, 10:36 and benefit from it. 10:38 And, we also know that ultimately 10:40 our Creator has the best answers for our health, 10:42 and sometimes it takes intervention from on High 10:45 to help us become better. Absolutely! Absolutely! 10:47 So we'll be right back in just a moment 10:48 Dr. Marcum is going to lead out in prayer. 10:55 I'm so glad that we can have an "Ultimate Prescription" 10:59 with our Creator - the One that 11:01 can help us have ultimate healing. 11:04 You know, God has promised to heal us, 11:06 it's just where, when and how, 11:08 and that's such a wonderful promise. 11:10 There might be someone out there that needs a prayer 11:12 for healing today and I want this to be a part 11:14 of everyone's treatment regimen - is prayer... 11:17 turning to the Ultimate Physician for their needs. 11:20 Let's bow our heads... 11:21 Heavenly Father, There might be someone 11:24 out there that needs Your healing in a special way today. 11:28 Please touch them Father and help them experience 11:31 Your love and Your healing power... 11:33 is our humble prayer, Amen 11:35 Now don't forget, we want everyone to eat 11:39 more greens, less fat, keep your body healthy, 11:43 and keep turning to the Ultimate Physician 11:46 as a source of power and healing in your life. |
Revised 2016-05-24