Participants: Nick Evenson (Host), Dr. James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP000072A
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00:16 Are you tired of prescription medications?
00:19 On today's program, we're going to talk about 00:21 an approach that just might help you 00:22 get rid of those medications. 00:24 I'm Dr. James Marcum. 00:26 Are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:29 Do you want solutions to your healthcare problem? 00:32 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:35 Well, you're about to be given "The Ultimate Prescription" 00:41 Hi, I'm Nick Evenson... 00:42 Thank you for joining us for today's program. 00:44 Why are we do dependent on medications? 00:46 And, is it possible to get off of them? 00:49 Dr. Marcum, thank you for joining us. 00:51 What do you think about this? 00:53 Well, you know Nick, I've thought a lot about this. 00:57 In fact, a couple of years ago, I wrote a book, 00:59 "Medicines That Kill" 01:01 Because in my research, I realized that medications 01:04 were the leading cause of death in America. Really? 01:07 And if you think about the problem, 01:09 if you look at the evidence... 01:11 You know, every year more heart attacks, more cancer, 01:15 more stroke, more diabetes, more sleeping problems, 01:18 more chronic pain. Right 01:21 Where does it end? Yeah 01:23 And if you look at 4 billion prescription medications, 01:26 you can say, "Wow, are we really fixing the problem?" 01:30 And a lot of people would like to come off their 01:33 medications if we gave them some other alternatives. Right 01:38 But as a medical profession, we treat symptoms 01:41 and not causes - and this is just not sustainable. Right 01:46 So we have to find out the cause of the problem, 01:50 and treat the causes and try to use as many natural remedies 01:54 or getting back to God's way to treat these things, 01:57 so we don't have to use medications 01:59 that sometimes cause more problems. 02:02 If you think about, Nick, if you have a problem, 02:04 and you can change the entire chemistry of the body, 02:08 that makes a lot more sense to me to change one 02:10 chemical pathway that can mess up 02:12 a lot of other chemical pathways. Sure 02:14 The body is just very, very complicated, 02:17 and with medications, there's not a medication 02:20 that exists that doesn't have risk. Right 02:23 Now I'm a cardiologist and I do use medications, 02:27 but I always talk to my patients... 02:28 "Here is the risk, here are the benefits," 02:31 and we monitor very closely for side effects. 02:34 And even if you're perfect with your medications, 02:37 there are certain medications that can cause 02:39 anaphylactic reactions - we see that a lot with antibiotics. 02:43 Certain medicines interact with other medications. 02:47 We know about pain medications, how they become very addictive. 02:51 Blood pressure medicines can make your blood pressure 02:53 go too low. Right 02:55 Diabetic medicines can make your blood sugar go too low. 02:58 All of those can have bad combinations. 03:01 If you take too much of anxiety medicines, 03:03 that can cause bad things to happen. Yeah 03:04 So medications are not without risk. 03:08 So I think it's very worthwhile that we talk about this, 03:11 and answer questions about specific instances where people 03:15 might be able to help themselves. 03:16 Now the doctors aren't really trained to do this, Nick. 03:19 You know, we went into medical school. Right 03:23 What do they teach us about? 03:24 Medications! 03:26 They don't necessarily teach us in how to treat in other ways. 03:29 And doctors are very good at treating symptoms; 03:32 they're very good at getting people over the humps. 03:34 But I think we have more work to do in understanding 03:37 what causes disease, talking and convincing people 03:40 that there are other alternatives... 03:42 You know, loving people, not judging them, 03:45 and moving them one step at a time towards health. 03:48 We clearly need to move in some other directions 03:50 because what we're doing, like you said, 03:51 it's just not working. 03:53 No, in the United States right now, 03:54 17% of the gross national product now 03:58 is spent on healthcare. Right 04:00 You know, wouldn't it be better to spend it on something else? 04:03 You know, anything else... And, I think that this is 04:06 the discussion, but it's not going to come from the system. 04:09 It's going to come from one person at a time, 04:11 making changes - learning to get back to the way 04:15 they were designed, learning to stay away 04:17 from these chronic stressors which turns on our diseases, 04:21 which causes to need these chronic medications... 04:23 And I think this is something that we need to talk about, 04:27 and I want to give people today a little bit of a strategy, 04:30 at least a way to approach the doctor, a way to think about it, 04:34 if there is a medication that you can possibly be off of. 04:37 Now I'm not saying you can, but I have lots of patients 04:40 that - for instance, they start exercising and eating right, 04:43 then they don't need their medicine 04:44 for high blood pressure. Sure 04:46 You know, they lose a lot of weight, get rid of 04:48 refined sugars, eat healthy... 04:50 They don't need their diabetic medicines. 04:52 Get rid of the stimulants, turn the TV off at night, 04:55 they start sleeping better, they don't need 04:57 their sleeping pill. Right 04:58 Maybe not have so much caffeine and protein, 05:02 and eating big at night - they don't need their antacid pills. 05:05 Maybe do some exercising, eat some greens, 05:09 maybe they don't need their calcium pills. Right 05:13 But there's no real incentive to do that 05:15 because if we did that, the pharmaceutical industry 05:18 would take a hit. Yeah, right 05:19 So a lot of what we do in the 05:22 medicine society is financial and politics-driven, Nick, 05:25 and I just don't like that, but someone has got to 05:29 step out and at Heartwise, we try to get people to 05:33 think about a balanced approach, 05:35 you know - the place for modern medicine, 05:37 and there is a place - the place for lifestyle changes. 05:40 But what we do different than other ministries, I think, is 05:43 from a medical standpoint is... we try to first focus on that 05:47 relationship with the Heavenly Father. Right 05:50 Because that takes us to the place we need to go, 05:52 and even if we're on the line of health and we just go to 05:55 A to B, to B to C, C to D and we go real slow, 05:58 we know that our Heavenly Father is going to make up for 06:01 us and heal in His time. Yeah 06:03 Now we're hoping He will heal right away. 06:06 You know these simple lifestyle changes are often overlooked 06:09 because people just want to write a prescription 06:11 and take a pill, but they are really powerful 06:13 when implemented and we don't always have 06:15 the willpower to do it on our own. 06:17 Right, we don't and that's why we need 06:19 help from others, encouraging, and I found out that if 06:21 people will just take one-step-at-a-time, 06:24 and then they say, "Yeah, I do feel better." 06:26 "You know, I'm drinking my water, I'm getting my rest, 06:29 I'm eating my greens, 06:30 I'm not eating as much fatty foods, 06:32 I do feel better, yes it can be done. 06:34 God is working in my life." That's right 06:37 And that's what I like about, getting at the cause 06:39 of problems - we can affect a whole generation of people. 06:43 And when people start doing this, they actually feel 06:46 the power of God transforming them. 06:48 And, it's so easy to get sort of sucked into the 06:52 modern world that we live in, 06:54 the technology and what everyone says... 06:56 You know, I have patients that come to me... "Well I read this 06:58 this on the internet, it must be true; 07:00 I saw this on the TV, so give me this medicine." 07:03 Well, have you ever looked at the TV ads, Nick? Yeah, sure 07:07 Well, we can have this and this and this, 07:08 but it can do this, this, this, this, this, and this... 07:10 all of them are bad. Yeah 07:12 One benefit - at a lot of risks! 07:15 Let me tell a story real quick before I know we're going to 07:17 talk about our first aid kit in a minute, 07:19 but I had a patient not too long ago 07:22 that came and he was impotent. 07:25 He was 35 years old - impotent, and he says, 07:29 "Can I have this medication for impotence?" 07:31 I go - "Do we really want to have that?" 07:34 "And I know I could give you that medicine, 07:36 and I could write a prescription 07:38 for you for the rest of your life or we could try 07:40 to get at the cause." 07:42 So I said, "Well some of the causes 07:43 of this impotence is maybe the food." 07:46 We know that fat paralyzes 07:47 arteries so they can't get bigger. Right 07:49 We know that stress increases the chance of becoming impotent. 07:52 I said, "For 10 days, 10 days, I want you to pray 07:55 that God will help you to eat a perfect diet," 07:59 so we talked about a perfect diet. 08:00 Get rid of all the fatty, all the fast foods. 08:03 He did that for 10 days and he came back in 10 days 08:06 and he could raise a flagpole, he was a happy camper. Sure 08:09 No, but it just proves we can do anything from 10 days 08:12 when we let the Lord work with us on these things, 08:14 we can see all sorts great things happen. 08:17 That's why I think health starts in that relationship 08:20 that we have with our Creator. 08:22 Because when we're doing things because God is working with us, 08:24 and we love Him, we do it for the right reasons. 08:26 We don't do it for selfish reasons. Yeah 08:28 And, we let Him move us one-step-at-a-time 08:31 and that's when we see the power 08:33 that God has in healing in our lives. 08:35 Doctors treat symptoms. God heals! 08:37 And that's so neat, Nick, and I like to talk about it. 08:41 Now our first aid kit. 08:42 That's right - we definitely know that there is a place 08:44 for medications and one of the places is when we have 08:47 emergencies - so we carry some 08:49 medications in our first aid kit. 08:51 What are we going to talk about today? 08:52 Well we've been working on our first aid kit in this series 08:55 of programs because we want everyone to have a 08:57 first aid kit that's well-stocked. Right 08:59 If they have an emergency, let's get them over the hump. 09:02 Well one of the things I think is very useful 09:04 for a first aid kit is medications to stop diarrhea. 09:09 Let's say you're somewhere and get some bad water. 09:13 Let's say you're on a mission trip in Africa, 09:15 and got some bad water. Yeah 09:16 Let's say you go to a restaurant, 09:18 and get some bad things that cause diarrhea. 09:20 When you have diarrhea, you can lose your electrolytes 09:23 and fluid very quickly. That's right 09:25 You lose your fluid, you could lose your blood pressure, 09:28 you'll lose your potassium and magnesium, 09:29 your heart could do funny rhythms, 09:31 sometimes dangerous rhythms. 09:33 That's not a good thing to lose a lot of your volume. 09:36 And if you think, "Well what do we need for good health?" 09:38 Well, we need fluids, we need to breathe, 09:42 we need to rest... those are the basics. 09:44 And I found out in health, we don't do the basics well. 09:47 So in first aid, if you're losing a lot of fluid 09:51 from these and you need to slow it down for a while, 09:53 this is a medicine called, "Imodium" that helps. 09:56 This is over-the-counter and it helps slow down the bowels 09:59 so you don't move as much of your volume. 10:05 You know, don't lose as many electrolytes... 10:07 this is very helpful. 10:08 Another thing that's very helpful for a first aid kit 10:11 that you might want to is this device here... 10:15 This is basically a pill that sterilizers bad water. Okay 10:20 Okay, so you can go anywhere, if you wanted to drink 10:23 out of the mud puddle and put this chemical in, 10:27 this would help make that drinkable. Right 10:30 Water is so essential to our bodies and a lot of people 10:34 don't realize, right now, that up to 70% of Americans are 10:39 dehydrated to some degree. Yeah 10:41 Dehydration is not a good thing! 10:44 When you're chronically dehydrated, 10:46 it turns on the stress chemistry, 10:48 raises the chance of a lot of bad health things. 10:50 So just by drinking your water, so if you were out somewhere 10:53 and couldn't get to water for a long period of time, 10:56 then this would help at least the water that you could get to 10:59 whether that be in a mud puddle or in a swamp, 11:04 you could sterilize that water and drink that. 11:07 And you would probably want to make sure that there's not 11:08 big particles in the water... Yes, oh yeah! 11:10 Maybe strain it first before using this medicine. Absolutely! 11:13 If you have the ability to strain it, 11:15 you might want to do that, but remember, 11:17 these products are just first aid in an emergency situation. 11:21 It hopefully will just get you by until you can 11:24 find some help. 11:25 Stay with us, we're going to be right 11:26 back after the break where Dr. Marcum 11:28 answers your questions on medications. |
Revised 2016-08-01