Participants: Nick Evenson (Host), Dr. James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP000097B
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00:01 Welcome back to the Ultimate Prescription.
00:02 I'm your host, Nick Evenson, and on today's program 00:04 Dr. Marcum and I are discussing food as medicine. 00:07 And specifically we're talking about beans, lentils, 00:11 all kinds of legumes. 00:12 And, Dr. Marcum, these are some powerful foods. 00:15 And I've got a fun fact about beans. 00:17 Okay, let's hear it. 00:19 I looked this up earlier, and it said that back in the 1980's 00:22 an archeologist working in New Mexico came upon a clay pot 00:26 that had been sealed with pine tar containing bean seeds 00:29 that were 1500 years old. 00:32 Oh! That's pretty old. 00:33 And after all that they planted them and they grew, 00:36 they sprouted. Wow! 00:37 So that's pretty impressive, you know. 00:39 The bean is very resilient. 00:40 Yeah, and they can grow, too. 00:42 Yeah, yeah. Also the world's largest bean pods can grow 00:47 up to five feet long. 00:48 And I'd be interested to see one of those. 00:50 So if you're sitting at home, and your know what I'm talking 00:52 about, it's called the E. gigas bean pod, and it comes from 00:56 Central America, in the tropics. 00:57 So if you're sitting at home and you know about this, 00:59 get on our website and contact us: HeartWiseMinistries. org 01:03 Tell us more about it. 01:04 I'd love to see one. 01:05 Wow! I'd like to see one, too. 01:07 That would be pretty cool; a huge bean pod. 01:09 Would you eat it? 01:10 Well, maybe. I don't know. 01:12 If some, if the local prepared it for me, you bet I would. 01:14 Well, if you ate it you might help get things like magnesium, 01:19 and iron, and potassium, which would help your 01:23 cardiovascular system. 01:24 It might lower your estrogen levels in your body, 01:28 which might improve your risk of getting breast cancer, 01:30 if you are a woman. 01:32 It might help improve your getting a clot. 01:34 We've talked about all the colorectal cancers. 01:37 So beans are a treatment for disease. 01:39 You know, you can prescribe beans as... 01:41 And I prescribe beans in my practice all the time. 01:44 Uh huh. Eat more beans. 01:45 Now one quick question. 01:46 You mentioned earlier about trace elements. Yeah. 01:49 Are these just some of the minerals that are found 01:50 in small quantities, or what are trace elements? 01:52 Yes, those are minerals that our body needs. 01:54 You know, like we don't need a lot of zinc, 01:56 but we do need it in our body. 01:58 Potassium, different types of magnesium, those are elements, 02:03 you know, Folate things like that, those are... 02:06 Iron would be considered, you know, those are natural 02:10 occurring elements, but we need it in our body. 02:12 Iron, of course, we need for our blood. Right. 02:14 You don't have iron you get anemic. 02:16 The prostate seems to need zinc. 02:17 So potassium and magnesium are needed for the nerve cells 02:21 in our heart, and different; every cell in our body 02:24 needs these chemicals. 02:25 So these are trace elements that we need to get from somewhere. 02:28 And unfortunately, you know, if we eat animals we get it 02:32 secondhand at best. Right. 02:33 You know, not as good. 02:35 So there's other things I want to talk about beans that 02:38 help us tremendously. 02:39 Yeah, what are some of the other conditions that 02:41 might be benefited? 02:42 If you are overweight beans can be a treatment for obesity. 02:47 Really? So would you rather have a gastric bypass surgery? 02:52 Would you rather take a weight loss pill? 02:54 Or would you rather eat more beans? 02:57 In fact, they studied this in 2012 in England, and the British 03:01 Journal of Nutrition pointed out that beans help lose weight 03:06 as much as caloric restriction. 03:08 Really? Yeah. Why would that be? 03:10 Well, I mean, I didn't read it word for word, but I think beans 03:15 help you fill up, so you're not as hungry, 03:17 so you don't eat as much. 03:18 It helps the chemistry in many other ways. 03:21 It helps speed up your metabolism some. Right. 03:24 So there's lots of things that beans help with. 03:27 So beans can help you lose weight. 03:29 Studies have also shown that beans help you 03:32 with your blood pressure; can lower blood pressure. 03:34 Is that because of the composition of protein 03:37 carbohydrates in it? 03:39 No, it's lots of reasons. 03:40 One is because of the fiber. 03:41 One... It probably works on multiple mechanisms. 03:43 It effects potassium, and the potassium effects 03:46 blood pressure. Okay. 03:47 And sometimes people that eat beans don't eat things that 03:50 raise the blood pressure. 03:51 We know that things that are processed, and preserved 03:54 raise blood pressure, because they usually have 03:56 higher sodium contents. Right. 03:58 And a lot of our potassium we get in, good potassium we 04:02 get in our vegetables. 04:03 A lot of people don't eat as many vegetables as we used to. 04:06 Right. We get valuable substances from the earth. 04:09 You know, that's why they call them elements, 04:11 because we get them from the earth. 04:12 These trace elements, these vegetables pull into them, 04:15 and what's a part of the vegetable in themself. 04:17 But I want to talk a little bit about the flora in the bowel. 04:21 You know, within you is this big tube that runs through 04:24 you that you pull nutrients out of, and it helps... 04:27 In the bowel you have good and bad flora, or the bacteria. 04:31 Right. There about, there's trillions of these in the bowel. 04:35 There's more DNA going on in the bowel than the rest 04:39 of the body combined. 04:40 And this DNA makes things, it regulates things. 04:44 So you've heard a lot about prebiotics, probiotics, 04:47 different things that regulates this biosphere, or this whole 04:51 zoological society that lives in our bowel. 04:54 It's scary to think of a trillion different things 04:57 living in your bowel that has DNA that are doing things. 05:00 It seems that there's a lot that could go wrong. 05:02 Yes, a lot could go wrong, but a lot could go right, too. Sure. 05:06 We know that people that eat fiber, and beans have fiber, 05:09 greens have fiber. 05:10 People that eat lots of fiber, when it gets into the bowel 05:14 it makes a chemical called butyrate. 05:16 And butyrate is the food that tends to feed our good flora. 05:21 So our good flora gets increased, so the good flora 05:25 helps keep out bad things. 05:26 The bad flora also tends to make inflammation, 05:29 and other bad things happen. 05:30 So just eating beans help your good flora grow. 05:33 When your good flora grows, less inflammation. 05:36 It regulates things that go in and out of our body 05:39 to a greater degree. 05:40 Even our brain chemistry can be improved when our 05:44 good flora improves. 05:45 Depression can come from the bowel. 05:46 Anxiety can come from the bowel. 05:48 Different chemicals like dopamine, serotonin. 05:51 So beans have an enormous ability to help our body 05:55 just from the fiber aspect, separate from the cancer aspect, 05:58 separate than the trace element aspects. 06:00 All of these things beans can help us with. 06:03 There's so many different ways that beans benefit us. 06:05 I'm going to write a prescription for beans for 06:07 you today, Nick, and you can go and eat some tonight. 06:10 Well, I will. I will for sure. 06:12 I hope so. Alright. 06:13 We're going to take a look now at a short clip from Dr. Marcum 06:16 quoting Bible Prescriptions for Life. 06:18 And then Dr. Marcum's going to share with us about that. 06:20 So let's have a look. 06:23 I'm Dr. James Marcum with your Biblical Prescription for Life. 06:27 A patient with type 2 diabetes came in the other day and wanted 06:31 to take less medications. 06:33 I referred her to this Biblical Prescription 06:36 for Life found in Genesis. 06:44 When we walk, both physical walk and spiritual walk, 06:48 studies have shown it helps lower our blood sugar. 06:53 When we physically walk it helps our insulin receptors do better, 06:57 lowers the chance of developing long term diabetes. 07:00 When we walk with God, Dr. Andrew Newburg says that 07:03 that lowers some of the cortisol in our body, 07:06 which lowers blood sugar. 07:07 So if you want to lower your blood sugar naturally, 07:10 walk in nature, and walk with God. 07:13 I'm Dr. James Marcum, and this is your 07:17 Biblical Prescription for Life. 07:21 That's a really great message, Dr. Marcum. 07:23 And if you'd like to learn more you can visit the website: 07:30 And there's a special gift there. 07:32 You can download the free first chapter of the book, 07:35 and get a feel for it. 07:37 There's so many things that are important to our health 07:39 besides just nutrition. 07:40 You know, we're focusing on food in this show. 07:43 But tell us a little bit about Biblical Prescriptions, 07:45 and why this is needed. 07:47 Well, in this Bible Study what we've tried to do at 07:50 Heartwise Ministries is incorporate a lot of material 07:54 into something that's doable, that people can take 07:57 one step at a time. Right. 07:59 But it talks about things that we don't think about. 08:01 We spend one whole week talking about stress; why we're sick. 08:05 And then we go through the different principles 08:07 in the Bible that God can use to help us change our health. 08:10 Specifically we end in worship. 08:13 We show how worship changes our chemistry. 08:15 We talked about walking with God; how walking with God 08:18 changes our adrenalin, our cortisol, 08:21 our brains, even our DNA. 08:24 So this is a great tool to improve health. 08:26 It's also a great outreach if you want to reach out to your 08:29 friends and neighbors; help them lower their blood pressure, 08:31 help them maybe come off of medicine, lose some weight, 08:33 improve their mental health. 08:35 So Biblical Prescriptions, this is a great Bible study. 08:38 And you told them how to get it. 08:39 That's right. If you want to purchase your copy today, 08:41 you can call 3ABN. And they can be reached at: 08:47 Thank you so much for tuning in today. 08:49 We enjoy sharing this information with you. 08:51 And we pray that God will lead you towards optimum health. 08:54 Thanks for joining us. 08:56 And Dr. Marcum will close the program in just a 08:57 moment with prayer. 09:04 Sometimes I get a funny look when I write 09:07 beans on a prescription. 09:09 Take two times a day; dispense thirty. 09:12 People are now beginning to understand that beans are 09:16 definitely a prescription that they can apply to their 09:19 lives for better health. 09:20 You know, if you have questions I want to encourage you to 09:23 come to our website. 09:24 That's HeartwiseMinistries.org 09:27 Specifically look at the prayer page. 09:29 We have people praying for each other. 09:31 Because God can do things for our health that we can't 09:34 accomplish on our own. 09:35 With that in mind I want to have a prayer for you right now. 09:39 Dear heavenly Father, I want to pray for each person out there 09:43 listening to this program, that You be especially near to them. 09:47 Provide healing in their hearts. 09:50 Help them to feel calm, and secure, and safe in this 09:54 world that we live in. 09:55 And help them to realize that You are the 09:58 Ultimate Prescription for our lives, and for healing. 10:01 This is our prayer today, Amen. 10:07 Well, I hope everyone can find some way that they can 10:10 incorporate beans into their lives. 10:13 It might be as simple as taking some food and putting some 10:16 hummus with it, or it might be eating bean soup tonight. 10:19 But try to incorporate some good old beans in your life. 10:22 I think it's going to make your life better. 10:24 It certainly will make it more healthy. 10:26 I'm Dr. James Marcum. 10:29 And as we talk about beans, I want to wish you 10:33 the very best in health. 10:35 And we'd love to hear from you, so go to our website: 10:39 Until next time, I'm Dr. James Marcum wishing you 10:42 the best of health. |
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