Participants: Nick Evenson (Host), Dr. James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP000068A
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00:16 Are you interested in foods that change your body
00:19 and can dramatically improve your health? 00:21 You won't want to miss today's program - stay right there. 00:25 I'm Dr. James Marcum, are you interested in 00:28 discovering the reason why? 00:30 Do you want solutions to your health care problem? 00:33 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:36 Well, you're about to be given "The Ultimate Prescription" 00:41 Hippocrates said, "Let food by thy medicine." 00:45 When it comes to supplements 00:47 and nutritional prescriptions, Dr. Marcum, 00:49 how does that apply? 00:50 Well that's great, Nick, because I get a lot of questions 00:53 at our website at heartwiseministries.org 00:56 regarding nutrients and supplements. Right 00:59 It's probably the most common thing I hear about, 01:02 and everyone wants to take 01:04 something natural, a natural remedy... 01:06 You know, is there some type of herb, 01:08 some type of extra vitamin that I take, 01:10 and I wanted to address these things today, 01:12 and give a balanced perspective. 01:14 There's a place for taking supplements and nutritional aids 01:18 but usually it's in a disease state. Okay 01:21 For instance, if you were floating around in the sea, 01:24 and didn't have vitamin C, you know you've heard of 01:26 these diseases like scurvy and pellagra and things like that. 01:30 Those are big deficiencies. 01:32 If you're iron-deficient, you need iron. 01:35 So if you're deficient in a substance, 01:37 then you might need to take supplements... 01:39 But most people, if they eat a well-balanced diet 01:43 with lots of fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains, 01:46 hydrate themselves well with water, 01:49 they don't need to take many supplements 01:51 because God has given us everything that we need 01:54 to keep our body running pretty smooth. 01:56 Now some people I've noticed that are on a whole food 01:59 plant-based diet, do need a little bit of supplements 02:03 with the B vitamins, B6 and B12. Why is that? 02:06 Because they don't get it in the food sources they eat. 02:09 But your doctor can check you for that 02:11 or you can just take a... I just take a B6 or B12 02:14 occasionally and I have plenty of high enough levels. 02:18 So where does B6 and B12... where do these come from? 02:21 Well, it's in animals, but it predominantly comes from 02:25 the soil - it comes from that, but nowadays, our soil is not 02:29 as healthy as it used to be, and you know of course, 02:31 animal products have that, but a lot of people don't 02:34 want to take that in because of the bad that they get with it, 02:37 so they can take supplements and a lot of the 02:39 foods we eat, the soy products, the different types of 02:42 you know, are supplemented with supplements as well... 02:45 So they don't even have to take a pill, 02:47 you get it as some of the food 02:48 we eat have these supplements in them. 02:50 Now I see a lot of marketing about this supplement 02:52 or that supplement... if I'm young and healthy, 02:55 and I don't feel any symptoms, I'm not feeling any real needs, 02:59 should I buy into the idea that maybe I need a 03:01 a supplement or should I talk to my doctor? 03:02 If you have a deficiency, if you have a disease state, 03:05 you might need a supplement. Okay 03:07 But if you're eating a whole food diet, plant-based diet, 03:11 maybe get a little B6 and B12, you're getting everything 03:14 you need and you don't have a deficiency. Okay 03:16 Now if you have a disease state like you have a GI bleed, 03:20 for instance, then you'll lose extra iron, 03:23 then you might need supplemental iron in your body. 03:25 If you have certain problems with a gland, 03:28 then you might be short on something. 03:30 So there are some cases where you do need some things. 03:33 If you don't eat fruits and vegetables, 03:35 you might need a supplement if you don't take those things in 03:38 because you might be short on a nutrient and those people 03:42 do need supplements, but I look at it this way... 03:44 Everything that we put in our body has a chemical reaction, 03:48 and the supplements and the herbs have chemical reactions 03:50 just like other things too. Sure, yeah! 03:53 And sometimes we take in too much of them and it 03:56 saturates our enzyme systems. 03:58 Now what happens... can you take 04:00 too much vitamin C, what happens? 04:01 Well, if you take too much of any good thing, 04:03 most of the time, the body handles it. Okay 04:05 But it's like - if you have an orchestra with lots of 04:08 French horns... let's say you have 50 French horns... 04:11 French horns are great, but if you have too many 04:14 French horns, you can't hear the trumpets. 04:16 Sometimes it blocks the receptors 04:18 when other needed nutrients can't get in. 04:20 So you want to balance... Yes 04:22 Not just a whole lot of one instrument but a balance. 04:25 And that's what we want in life, we want a balance. 04:28 And you know, there's a place for medicines... 04:30 you know, when we need medicines mainly to get us 04:33 over an acute crisis. 04:35 There's a place for nutrition, but more than that... 04:41 what I like to think is, there's a place for God 04:43 leading us in the learning about our bodies 04:46 because we're our best physicians. Right 04:48 So we have a lot of questions that we're going to get to 04:50 in a minute about this, but before that... 04:52 you know, we've been talking about our first aid kits. 04:55 So let's talk about another thing that our viewers 04:58 can add to their first aid kit to help them be healthier. 05:01 So, we're building our first aid kit at home... 05:03 what are some things that we're going to put in there today? 05:06 Well today, we're going to talk about "bandages." Okay 05:10 Bandages help if you're having a situation where 05:14 you're bleeding or you're wounded or the tissue 05:16 has been damaged. 05:18 I don't know if you have ever seen it, 05:20 but we have all sorts of bandages to help, 05:22 not only keep the area clean so it doesn't get infected, 05:25 but also to keep, if you're losing lots of blood, 05:28 to help with that situation. 05:30 Let's say that you're in a first aid situation, 05:34 and someone is losing a lot of blood... 05:37 what should you do? 05:38 You need to stop the bleeding first, right? 05:40 And a lot of people, I would recommend putting a glove on, 05:43 and we want to put a glove on your hand so a first aid kit 05:47 should have some gloves. Right 05:48 They don't necessarily have to be sterile, 05:50 but some gloves that will help protect you and then 05:53 depending on how much bleeding is, 05:55 we want to stop the bleeding. 05:57 But a general principle to stop bleeding 05:59 we want to put pressure on it. Okay 06:02 And of course, the more bleeding, 06:04 the more pressure you need. Right 06:06 And if you usually put pressure hard enough for a prolonged 06:09 period of time, the body will bring in clotting factors, 06:13 it will stop the bleeding on its own. 06:15 Now I've had arteries that were completely severed 06:18 sometimes that I've had o put tons of pressure on 06:21 to stop the bleeding. I imagine... 06:23 Of course we just stop the bleeding until we can get 06:25 a surgeon or someone that can ligate that or fix the problem. 06:29 So if it's severe bleeding, and you've seen people 06:31 that had a bullet wound or gunshot wound 06:34 where they put a lot of pressure. 06:35 But a lot of pressure can be lifesaving if they can stop 06:38 that bleeding until help arrives and keep the blood 06:41 in the intravascular space where it can carry oxygen around. 06:45 Keep the blood pressure up, we need pressure 06:47 throughout the body to take oxygen and nutrients. 06:50 So putting pressure and it depends on how much you need. 06:53 Now some people don't need much at all, 06:55 and here are just some little band aids. 06:56 Every first aid kit should have some band aids too. 06:59 This is a butterfly band aid to help keep a wound closed 07:03 so it doesn't bleed very much. 07:06 Then I've thrown in my kit, I have some tape. 07:10 Well, why would tape be beneficial? 07:13 Well let's say you hold pressure on a wound and then later on 07:17 you have to put a bigger bandage on it 07:21 and you might wan to wrap the tape around it 07:24 many times to help put the pressure on the wound 07:27 so the wound doesn't continue to bruise. 07:30 So a bandage will help stop bleeding, 07:32 but you have other parts of your body that might not 07:34 be bleeding that also might help with the bandage... 07:37 And I've had some other things down here... 07:40 What if you have something in your foot? 07:43 Very important - these are if you have a blister, 07:48 a corn or something on your foot that causes a lot... 07:51 you can put this over it, it's not bleeding, 07:54 but it can help protect it against rubbing and pain 07:57 that will keep you from walking 07:58 until it can give it some time to heal. 08:01 Probably keeps a little protection 08:02 from infection as well. 08:04 Yes, that will help with that. Okay 08:06 There's lots of other little things I've thrown in here. 08:09 This is a bigger triangular bandage that we can 08:13 put and wrap it if someone has a big damage to the skin 08:17 to help put pressure on it, mainly to help the bleeding 08:19 stop until you can get some permanent help. 08:22 So I think every first aid kit needs to have 08:25 an assortment of bandages. 08:26 Bandages in case you have big bleeding 08:30 where you put pressure on until you stop it, 08:32 then you wrap it - you know some tape around it until it stops. 08:35 Lesser bleeding problems might can just get by with 08:38 band aids and then also this very important too... 08:41 we have some sterile things that we can add to it. 08:45 And you know if you have to put some things 08:47 around the bandage, you can have some Betadine, 08:49 some alcohol to help keep it clean as well. 08:52 That's something that's very useful for a wound. 08:55 And then until you can get to a situation 08:57 where you can really keep it clean. 08:58 So for everyone's first aid kit today... Nick, I think it's 09:02 very valuable to add some type of bandage to that 09:06 to cover every type of scenario in case you're 09:09 out far away from home, you can have this done 09:12 until you can see a provider. 09:14 Sometimes it's so little 09:15 that you don't even have to see anybody. 09:16 Right, yeah - that's some great advice, 09:18 and you know, it's important just to have a glove available, 09:20 don't be afraid of people, do the best to 09:23 protect yourself, but use whatever gloves you have 09:25 available to help take care of people. 09:27 I see some people, you know, kids that fall down 09:29 and they are bleeding and they really need a stitch 09:31 that you have to put a bandage on it and hold pressure 09:33 until they can get a stitch or something like that. 09:35 You don't want them to have blood everywhere, 09:38 and, of course, that's not a good situation. 09:40 So every first aid kit needs an assortment of bandages. 09:43 Don't forget to put pressure on the wound if it's bleeding 09:46 until the bleeding stops or you can get 09:48 further help - very important! 09:50 That's some great advice and I'm going to add some more 09:51 bandages to my first aid kit at home. More bandages! 09:54 All right, we're going to be right back in just a moment 09:56 with some more questions from our website 09:58 heartwiseministries.org 10:00 And today, we're talking about supplements 10:02 and nutritional treatments, 10:03 so we'll be back in just a moment. |
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