Participants: Nick Evenson (Host), Dr. James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP000078A
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00:16 Do want to protect yourself with strong and healthy bones?
00:19 If so, you're not going to want to miss this program, 00:21 stay with us. 00:23 I'm Dr. James Marcum, are you interested in 00:26 discovering the reason why? 00:29 Do you want solutions to your healthcare problem? 00:31 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:34 Well, you're about to be given "The Ultimate Prescription" 00:40 One out of 2 people - those are the odds of breaking your bone 00:44 if you are a woman over the age of 50. 00:46 How can we avoid being a statistic? Dr. Marcum... 00:49 Well, no one wants to be a statistic, Nick. That's right. 00:53 And everyone wants strong bones. Certainly! 00:55 And, you know, what's sort of interesting is 00:57 I really got interested in this topic because so many 01:01 people break bones when they get older. That's right 01:04 Also, some people break bones when get younger, 01:07 and when a person breaks a bone, 01:09 it triggers a lot of other bad things to happen. 01:12 I can't tell you, how many people when they get older, 01:15 they have a hip fracture and if they have a hip fracture, 01:18 they can't move. 01:19 And sometimes when they can't move, 01:21 they get blood clots in their legs. 01:22 Sometimes when they get blood clots in their legs, 01:24 they have emboli, pulmonary embolism. 01:27 Sometimes they don't take deep breaths. 01:29 They get infections, pneumonias. 01:32 Sometimes when people break bones or in more pain, 01:34 they don't eat as well, their bowel slows down. 01:37 They end up taking other pain medications 01:39 which slows down their bowels. 01:40 So breaking a bone, especially older in life, 01:44 is catastrophic, so I want to talk today 01:46 about things that we can do to help make our bones stronger; 01:52 little things that we can do because part of 01:54 our bone health is not as good as we age. 01:58 and that's just part of aging. 02:00 And, we lose about 15% of our bone density, 02:04 a woman does, in the 5 to 7 years 02:08 after menopause. 02:09 So just from losing that estrogen, 02:11 you start losing your bones, and as everyone knows, 02:14 when people get older, you see them - they don't 02:16 walk as well - they start to teeter and fall, 02:19 well part of that is the aging process, but there are a lot of 02:22 things that we can do to help with that. 02:24 Now before you go on, if you think of animals, 02:28 if you thought what animal has the strongest bones... 02:31 what animal would you think had the strongest bones? 02:34 I would think that giraffes have pretty strong bones. 02:37 Okay, I wouldn't think giraffe, I would think elephants. 02:40 Elephants because they're heavier maybe, huh? 02:42 I would think elephants because they're so big, 02:44 and they have these big bones that come out of their... 02:46 the tusks, right...they have tusks, the ivory and those guys 02:50 are pretty strong to carry a big beast like that around. 02:54 And the general principle is those animals 02:57 are always on the move. Right 02:58 They don't sit down and take it easy. 03:00 The elephants, I see the movies and they're drinking 03:03 water through their trunks all the time... 03:05 And, an elephant is a whole food plant-base person. 03:09 You know, he eats whole plants, so those are some of the 03:11 characteristics of what will make us have strong bones. Sure 03:15 Moving - moving weight around, eating a healthy diet, 03:18 drinking water - those are some characteristics that will help 03:21 us make strong bones. Right 03:24 So, we're going to talk about something else before we 03:26 get to some questions that have come into our website, 03:28 and that's first aid... and I brought my own first aid kit 03:31 in here and I thought we might take a look at it. 03:33 Well I'm glad you brought that, you know, we've been 03:35 talking about different first aids, and of course, 03:37 we've been giving a person that would make a large kit. 03:39 This is a much smaller kit that you could take in a car... 03:42 You could take that in a backpack. Right 03:45 Why don't you open it up and show us what inside of it? 03:47 Well that's what I bought it for, I like to do a lot of 03:48 camping and backpacking with my friends, 03:50 and so this is a good size, it's not too heavy, 03:52 and I could take it with me. 03:54 And so, when we open it up here, I've got a set of gloves, 03:56 so that I can be as safe as possible and one of the first 04:00 things that we've got is we've got an Ace bandage here. 04:02 Yep, that's good to stabilize joints. 04:04 That's right to stabilize joints. 04:05 And we also have some scissors and a bunch of bandages 04:07 in the back here and a lot of bandages so that if there's 04:11 bleeding, we can just keep putting more fresh bandages on 04:14 and try and eliminate that bleeding. 04:16 And there's also some medications here 04:18 for some basic... I think there's some Benadryl 04:20 for allergies and that type of thing. 04:21 And, we also have a CPR face shield right there. 04:24 Good, good. So those are some things 04:26 We also have antiseptics to help fight infections, 04:29 and some gauze here as well for more wounds. 04:32 So this is a much smaller kit, 04:35 and doesn't have as much in there, 04:36 but what a few things that you think I might want to 04:38 make sure that I have in here. 04:40 Well, you know, you've got a bug bite apparatus 04:44 where you deal with bug bites, where you can deal with 04:46 bad bug bites a little more, that might help. 04:49 You've got some good things for compression 04:51 and stop bleeding, so that's good. 04:53 This can also immobilize joints, so that's very valuable. 04:57 You've got some different things for pain and for 05:00 antihistamine - so that's pretty good. 05:02 You've got tons of bandages, that all helps. Right 05:05 So I think you've got sort of the basics covered there, Nick. 05:09 If someone was to get dehydrated or have diarrhea, 05:14 you might want to add some tablets to that. 05:17 Some water purification tablets might help if you 05:20 have room for that. Right 05:21 And, of course, we've talked of the more advanced kits 05:25 that we have, have more advanced apparatus, 05:27 but I think that covers it pretty well. 05:28 Yeah, it's a great idea to have just a small 05:31 kit that you can kind of take anywhere, 05:32 and always have ready. 05:34 Well that's good and I like that you have the gloves 05:35 in case, you know, if you don't want to contaminate 05:38 yourself with blood. That's right 05:39 And, hopefully, we won't need that first aid kit 05:43 during this program today. Hopefully not... 05:45 Hopefully we won't start bleeding and I promise you 05:47 I won't hit you with the reflex hammer. I'd appreciate that! 05:50 You know, we don't use these as much as we used to. 05:53 We used to hit the reflexes to test the nervous system 05:56 to see if it was working well. 05:58 But we're going to really focus on bones, 06:00 and there have been so many questions that come in about 06:02 bones that I think we're going to learn a lot 06:04 from these questions we cover. That's right 06:07 And if you have a question, you're watching at home, 06:09 and you want to ask Dr. Marcum a question, 06:11 go to our website: heartwiseministries.org 06:14 and you can ask the doctor. 06:15 We're going to be right back in just a moment, and stay with us. |
Revised 2016-10-31