Participants: Nick Evenson (Host), Dr. James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP000098A
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00:17 Four hundred years before Jesus walked the earth,
00:19 there was a physician named Hypocrites who said, 00:22 Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food. 00:25 And that's exactly what we're going to discuss 00:27 on today's program. 00:28 Stay with us. The Ultimate Prescription begins now. 00:31 I'm Dr. James Marcum. 00:33 Are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:36 Do you want solutions to your health care problem? 00:39 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:42 Well, you're about to be given the Ultimate Prescription. 00:48 Hello, and welcome to the Ultimate Prescription. 00:50 I'm your host, Nick Evenson. 00:52 This program is dedicated to helping people understand better 00:55 God's design for our lives, and follow His plan for health. 00:58 Dr. Marcum is joining us here today, and we're going to be 01:01 discussing food as medicine. 01:03 Dr. Marcum, thanks for joining us today. 01:05 Well, I'm glad to be here, Nick, and thanks for hosting us. 01:07 Yeah, well... I'm glad you can come, too. 01:09 It's a good time here at the Ultimate Prescription. 01:11 Yeah, it takes two to banter. 01:12 You know, I used to try to do this by myself, 01:15 and it's never quite as interesting, you know? 01:17 It takes, you know... 01:19 And it's hard when you work on a limited budget. 01:21 You know, Dr. Oz, mercy! 01:23 He could do all sorts of fun things, you know. 01:25 He can actually have the budget to have all sorts of cool things 01:29 when he does it, but, you know, we just have to depend on 01:31 the gift God gives us; mostly information. 01:35 And we pray a lot. You know, I pray a lot that the people that 01:39 watch this, God will touch their hearts, and they'll find 01:41 something; that they'll find truth. 01:44 And that God will be the One that helps people understand, 01:47 and moves through these programs. 01:49 So we've been talking about all sorts of different foods, 01:53 and food as medicine. 01:54 And you talked about Dr. Hypocrites. 01:56 Yes, you know what? 01:58 In medical school... 01:59 Let me interrupt you for a second. 02:00 In medical school we take the Hippocratic Oath. 02:03 I've heard of that. 02:04 And I don't usually take oaths, but I can remember, 02:07 I graduated from the University of Texas in 02:09 San Antonio in medical school. 02:10 You know, I went to college in Austin, and then I did medical 02:14 school in San Antonio. 02:15 And Dr. Antonia Novello was the Surgeon General at that time. 02:21 And she, you know, was at our graduating class. 02:23 And we gave the Hippocratic Oath. 02:26 And part of that oath is, first do no harm. That's right. 02:30 And we look at the world we live in, and sometimes I wonder 02:35 whether people aren't doing each other harm. 02:37 And if you'll look at the evidence, there seems to be more 02:40 cancer, more heart disease, more obesity, more diabetes, 02:43 more joint problems. 02:45 Right now one in three people have mental 02:46 health problems, Nick. 02:48 That's a staggering number. 02:49 That's scary. Chronic disease keeps going up. 02:51 And you wonder, you know, we took this oath, 02:53 first do no harm; I'm wondering sometimes whether we're not 02:56 doing more harm than good. 02:58 And there's a lot of studies now coming out that says the number 03:01 one cause of death in America might be medications. 03:04 We hear about all of these narcotic deaths, and overdose 03:07 deaths, and all of these things. 03:09 And that's why, you know, I've started searching in the Bible 03:12 for answers to health problems. 03:14 And just praying that the key physician, the key treatment 03:18 that each one of us wants is to have that relationship 03:22 with the heavenly Father. 03:23 That's really the Ultimate Prescription, because we never 03:26 know when our genetics are going to turn on something bad, 03:29 a semi might come and kill us; something bad might happen. 03:33 But as long as we have that ultimate relationship, 03:35 that Ultimate Prescription, God's promised that He's going 03:39 to give us healing. 03:40 It's just where, when, and how. 03:42 And when you have that in the back of your mind, 03:44 some of the fears that we have... 03:46 You know, people are scared about things nowadays. 03:48 They're scared about politics, they scared about being sick. 03:52 We can remember in Philippians, you know, 03:54 Be anxious about nothing. 03:55 God didn't create a spirit of fear, and we can turn to Him 03:59 to help our chemistry. 04:00 And when we have less fears, and less anxiety about 04:03 everything, this helps our health improve as well. 04:05 Right, right. Now on this particular program we're talking 04:08 about food as medicine. 04:09 And Dr. Hippocrates, he was the first one to talk about this; 04:12 food is medicine, medicine is food. 04:14 How do you think he came to this realization that food was so 04:17 vital to our health? 04:18 I don't know, but he was way ahead of his time. 04:22 And I know that he had different foods. 04:25 And what we've tried to do is we've tried to find food, 04:28 and the specific studies that support their use, 04:31 and that teach people how to apply it. 04:33 This isn't new. You know Daniel and his friends ate 04:36 things that grow, and they were ten times smarter, 04:39 and they had better countenance, and, you know, 04:41 a lot of different things. 04:43 So this program we've decided to devote to ginger. 04:46 That's right, and we've got some ginger here you can see. 04:49 This is the ginger root itself. 04:51 And we also have here the supplement. 04:54 You can take it is pills or in the raw form. 04:57 And it actually, it smells pretty strong. 04:59 It's pretty fantastic. 05:00 I'm going to cut a little bit off here. 05:02 It'll just get a little bit. 05:03 It's kind of got a nice ah... 05:05 Can I just take a few of one. 05:06 Try a little? Well, I want to smell it. 05:07 I want to smell it. 05:09 Here, try that. Yeah, it has a pop to it. 05:13 What do you think would happen if I just stuck it in my mouth? 05:15 I'd give it a shot. Let's try! 05:17 I'll stick it in my mouth here. 05:19 I wonder if it comes in different strength. 05:21 That is not the way I recommend you eat it. 05:23 No, I don't either! Whew! 05:24 But ginger is pretty potent stuff. 05:26 It's very strong. And as I cut it open there, it's a root, 05:29 but it's actually pretty juicy. 05:31 It has a pop to it, you know? 05:33 It has a little bit of warm to it. 05:34 I am probably not going to finish just a small little piece 05:37 like that without some other kind of food with it. 05:39 No we have to make it through. 05:41 You know, I've had people that have ginger shots. 05:43 You know they make it in beverages now? Right, yep. 05:46 They add it to different foods, and, you know, 05:48 lots of different ways to have it. 05:50 A lot of people bring it this way, and this is actually 05:52 mine from home where I take ginger root. Okay. 05:55 You can actually break it and put it on different things. 05:58 Right. So I take it that way, because, you know, sometimes 06:00 this is just not convenient. 06:02 I know the root itself is probably a purer form. 06:05 It gets better absorbed. 06:07 But sometimes I can't have that, and I take it, 06:10 the ginger supplement. 06:11 So I'm going to make an interesting observation here. 06:13 This ginger root, on the very front of the bottle here 06:15 it says, For digestive support. 06:18 Promotes GI comfort and cardiovascular functions. 06:21 Yes, it does. So tell us, what all is ginger good for? 06:25 What I've tried to do is, you know, there's many ways that 06:29 food helps our bodies that we don't even understand. Uh huh. 06:32 But there are some studies that have been done to prove it. 06:35 Okay? And I want to talk to people about the specific 06:38 studies of ginger that show beyond doubt 06:41 that ginger is very useful. Okay. 06:44 The first thing I want to show is that recently, 06:46 for years we've known about ginger and headaches. Okay. 06:50 Up to 12% of the population suffer from migraine headaches. 06:54 That's very debilitating. 06:56 And years ago they had case reports. 07:00 And what a case report in medicine is they just 07:02 describe different people that they give something to 07:05 and they get better. 07:06 And that was the first thing done. 07:08 They did case reports on ginger and they noticed that when you 07:11 had ginger mixed 1/4 teaspoon with water, it decreased the 07:15 amount of migraine headaches. 07:17 Well, that was good, but case reports aren't the best studies. 07:20 The best studies is when you compare groups, okay? Sure. 07:23 Double blinded studies. 07:25 So they did a double blinded study with ginger, 07:27 and this was reported in the Journal of Phytotherapy in 2014, 07:32 and they studied migraine headaches. 07:35 One group received the standard medicine called 07:38 Imatrex, or Sumatriptan. 07:40 The other one got 1/8 teaspoon of ginger. 07:43 And guess what? The ginger patients did just as well 07:48 as the medicine patients. Really? 07:51 Yeah. So ginger has been shown to be an effective treatment 07:54 for migraine headaches. 07:55 So a lot of people, you know, when they feel a migraine coming 07:59 on they mix some ginger with some water, and they take it, 08:02 and it helps out a lot. 08:03 The mechanism's probably some type of inflammation or health. 08:08 Like I say, there's so many chemicals in these plants that 08:10 we don't know what all these phytochemicals are doing. Right. 08:14 Another thing that in the studies have been shown that it 08:17 helps women that have heavy menstrual cramps. 08:20 Uh huh. Just taking those. 08:22 Now the studies show that you have to take it 08:23 about three times a day. 08:25 But it lowers the menstrual cramps just as effective as 08:29 the medication called Ibuprofen or Motrin. Okay. 08:32 So it's another thing that it helps. 08:34 In 1982 they showed that ginger was just as good as Dramamine. 08:38 This was published in Lancet in lowering the rate of nausea. 08:43 Yeah. So you're sick at your stomach, especially motion 08:46 sickness in the car, or on a boat... 08:48 Or on a boat, Yep. Yep. 08:50 ...or chemotherapy, or radiation. 08:51 Or after surgery what they would do, they would is use 08:54 ginger to treat nausea. 08:56 So it helps a lot of things. 08:58 Then they did this study with inflammation in the body. 09:01 You know, everyone has inflammation. Sure. 09:03 And that inflammation might be in the bowels. 09:05 It might be in the a joint. 09:07 You know, that's the most common, in joints. 09:09 The joints just wear out. 09:10 Well, they took 250 milligrams twice a day. 09:13 Now this is actually 550, so this was a dose. 09:16 So they took the equivalent of one of these a day, 09:19 and it lowered arthritic pain just as much 09:22 as an anti-inflammatory. 09:24 And they noticed it didn't have the side effects. Right. 09:26 So I've had some inflammatory problems before, 09:30 and I take this amount a day to help inflammation, 09:33 as well as turmeric, which are very good, 09:35 as well as beans and greens. 09:37 And that's almost taken the inflammation out of my body now. 09:40 Oh, that's great. It's really amazing. 09:42 It also has antioxidant abilities, which helps aging. 09:48 So ginger could help aging by antioxidants. 09:51 So it helps many different things in the body. 09:54 Some people think that it might even help our gut 09:56 bacteria do better: ginger. 09:58 So ginger helps on many different levels, 10:01 doing many different things. 10:02 And just, I think once you get used to that taste, 10:05 it really can add some pop to different foods we eat. 10:09 Yeah, yeah, definitely! 10:10 And I definitely would add it to other foods, because by itself 10:13 that is really strong, that is really strong. Yeah. 10:16 We recently had a chance to visit our friend, 10:18 Kristina McFeeters, at Kristina's Kitchen, 10:20 and she did a cooking demonstration for us 10:22 showing us how she uses ginger root in some of her recipes. 10:25 Let's have a look now. 10:28 Welcome to Kristina's Kitchen. 10:30 I'm Kristina McFeeters. 10:32 Today we're going to explore one of my favorite ways to 10:35 incorporate ginger into my diet. 10:37 Ginger is a root that grows, and it is a spice that's commonly 10:43 used in a lot of things. 10:44 We find it in cookies, curries, and many other ingredients. 10:50 You can also get dried ginger, called crystallized ginger. 10:55 You can also get ginger powder in your spice section 10:59 in the grocery store. 11:00 And then if you go to a health food store, or a specialty store 11:04 you can get ginger capsules, and you can also get ginger tea. 11:09 Today we are going to use fresh ginger to make some amazing 11:14 Apricot Ginger Energy Bites. 11:17 To start out you will need a a food processor. 11:21 You will notice this is a very small food processor. 11:24 And so I am giving you a small recipe. 11:26 If your food processor is larger, 11:28 you can increase the recipe. It's very simple. 11:32 You will need a 1/4 cup packed with pitted dates. 11:39 A 1/4 cup packed with dried apricots. 11:45 A 1/4 cup of almonds. 11:49 And a 1/4 cup of unsweetened, shredded coconut. 11:53 Now we will add our fresh ginger. 11:59 And to do that, I'm just going to peel a little bit 12:02 of the outside, and we are going to grate it. 12:05 Ah, shred it you might say. 12:07 Ginger, when it's fresh, is very fibrous; 12:11 has long strings in it. 12:12 So you don't want to just throw in a chunk of ginger. 12:17 We're going to use this small grater. 12:23 And we don't need very much in this recipe, 12:26 because it's a small recipe. 12:27 We just need a 1/4 teaspoon. 12:34 There we have a 1/4 teaspoon of fresh grated ginger. 12:42 And if you like lots of ginger, you can use up to a 12:45 1/2 teaspoon of fresh ginger. 12:47 A 1/4 teaspoon just gives it a kick; a 1/2 teaspoon is going 12:51 to give it a stronger ginger flavor. 12:52 So now the last thing is I like to just put a pinch of salt in. 12:57 It doesn't take very much. 13:00 And then we will grind this until it's very, not completely 13:06 smooth, but until it's got small chunks. 13:09 Then after it's done grinding we'll add just a little bit 13:12 of water to hold it together. 13:18 Now we're going to add about a tablespoon of water; 13:21 just to help moisten it so the balls will stick together. 13:29 And we'll mix that up. 13:37 Okay, we're done. We're going to pour this into our bowl. 13:51 Now we're going to make the balls. 13:54 We're going to form them. 13:57 And this is so much fun, especially if you have kids. 14:00 Get them involved rolling them out. 14:03 Chances are they will probably eat them before they 14:06 put them on the plate. 14:07 And that's perfectly fine. 14:09 You can refrigerate them afterwards. 14:11 You can put them in the freezer for a longer storage. 14:14 You can eat them right away, or whatever you 14:16 want to do with them. 14:18 See how simple that is? 14:19 And just think, you're adding amazing anti-inflammatory, 14:23 nutritious, delicious food to your diet. 14:26 Be sure to try this at home. 14:30 Yeah, Kristina, we really appreciate her doing these 14:32 cooking demos, because making this easy, 14:35 making it applicable, showing people how to get ginger 14:38 into your diet is important to make it practical for people. 14:41 Well, the next time I'm in McCurry County I'm going to stop 14:45 by her restaurant, and I'm going to get 14:47 one of these gingers. 14:49 And you know what? It's, you should take it before... 14:52 Remember we said it prevents nausea? Yeah, yeah, right. 14:55 So if I get something I don't like there, guess what? 14:58 I'm protected. That's right. 15:00 That's right, plenty of ginger. 15:01 Well, I shouldn't say that about Kristina. She's wonderful. 15:03 Yep, she's great. Yeah, does some great things. 15:05 Alright. There's more to come. 15:06 We're going to talk more about food as medicine in just a 15:08 moment, but we've got to take a quick break, 15:10 so stay right there. 15:11 We'll be right back. |
Revised 2017-04-13