Participants: Nick Evenson (Host), Dr. James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP000100B
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00:01 Welcome back. You're watching the Ultimate Prescription.
00:02 I'm your host, Nick Evenson, here with Dr. James Marcum, 00:05 and we're discussing food as medicine. 00:07 And more specifically on today's program, which is our 100th 00:10 program of Ultimate Prescription, 00:11 we're talking about beets and how they have some fantastic 00:16 medicinal properties, and how they can help us 00:18 live as God intended. 00:20 Now I wouldn't say beets are the ultimate prescription. 00:24 In our study that have been done, both in hypertension, 00:28 and in the British Health Foundation and others, 00:30 beets are a treatment especially for blood pressure. Right. 00:34 It might be used for trace elements. 00:36 And I guess the next time you and Leslie have a dinner party, 00:39 you can tell everyone, We're going to be serving beets. 00:42 Come on over! Maybe so. 00:44 I don't know. We don't eat beets too often. 00:46 Well, you could do great. 00:47 You could have beet juice. 00:48 You could have a beet salad. Yep. 00:50 And you can have a beet entree. 00:52 And we could teach you how to make some beet desserts. 00:55 You can have a... Oh, that would be great! 00:57 That sounds like a good challenge. 00:58 People would love it, love it, they would love it. 01:00 But, you know what, this is our hundredth program on beets. 01:03 On the Ultimate Prescription, not on beets. 01:05 Not on beets, but... No. 01:07 Yeah, we are focusing on beets today, right. 01:09 Focus on beets... But I want to thank everyone that's been 01:11 involved in this program through the years. 01:13 You know, a lot of people don't see all the people involved, 01:16 but we have people in the control room that are doing 01:19 all sorts of neat things, much more hard than 01:22 what we do out here. Sure, yep. 01:24 We have people running the cameras, and the jibs, 01:26 and directors, and people that do the sound, and graphics. 01:30 And Kristina who helped things. 01:31 So there's lots of people that help to bring this message about 01:35 the Ultimate Prescription to people. 01:38 And the Ultimate Prescription is not a beet is it, Nick? 01:41 No, definitely not. 01:42 No, the Ultimate Prescription that we want to focus on, 01:45 and everyone that makes this program is that relationship, 01:48 that unique relationship that we can have with our Savior. 01:51 Uh huh. That's the saving relationship. 01:54 That's what really heals people. Uh huh. 01:56 And if we can make this program, and people start thinking about 01:59 this relationship and give their hearts to Christ, 02:01 and renew themselves every day, that makes it all worthwhile. 02:06 Everyone that's worked so hard on these 100 episodes, 02:08 that's what it's all about. 02:10 And that's what makes us a little bit different than other 02:12 health programs, you know. 02:13 Other health programs might focus on the technical parts 02:17 of it, or the acute care, or some focus on the nutrition, 02:21 but we like to focus on the relationship with Christ. 02:25 Because that's really where the healing occurs. 02:27 Yeah. You mentioned earlier about healing beliefs. Yes. 02:30 You know in the Scriptures it tells us that God is going to 02:33 heal us and make us whole. 02:34 And we need to really believe that. 02:35 Whosoever believes in Me shall have everlasting life. 02:39 That is the Ultimate Prescription, 02:40 and that's what this program's all about. 02:43 Beets are a prescription. That's right. 02:45 Beets are not the Ultimate Prescription. That's right. 02:47 Not the most important anyway. 02:49 Some people don't like beets, you know? Yeah. 02:50 My son does the beet juice thing, but I don't think 02:53 he really likes it. 02:55 I sort of make him drink it. 02:56 He's sixteen years old. 02:57 And I said, Jake, it's going to make you swim faster. 02:59 So he gulps it down, but I don't think... 03:02 He threw up once when he ate it. 03:04 But I think he believed it wasn't going to be good, 03:06 so, you know, that self believing. 03:08 If it's not good, it's going to taste good, 03:09 it's going to make me sick. 03:11 So I think part of it was the belief that he 03:12 thought it wasn't good. 03:14 If I'd have put it in something else he might 03:16 have liked it more, so... 03:17 But I did the beet juice myself a bit, but I'm going to try to 03:21 start incorporating more whole beets rather 03:23 than just the juicing. 03:24 Try that, and I want you to have... 03:25 You will be a crowd pleaser if you have a whole beet 03:29 dinner party at your house. 03:30 A beet bean dinner party? 03:31 Alright, challenge accepted. 03:33 We're going to do it. 03:34 Do that for your friends. 03:35 Have them come over some Saturday night, and you have the 03:37 full beet, beet thing, and they'll be happy. 03:39 They'll lower their blood pressure. 03:40 They'll make some nitrates. 03:42 See how it... Let me know how it goes. 03:44 Alright. You know you just mentioned blood pressure. 03:45 And we have a question that just came in. 03:47 Someone's asking, What are some foods that 03:50 lower my blood pressure? 03:51 This is people who write in to our website at 03:54 There's an Ask the Doctor form there. 03:56 So you can contact us that way if you have a question. 03:58 But what are some foods that help with blood pressure? 04:00 Well, before I do that, a lot of people really don't 04:03 understand blood pressure. 04:05 So I'm going to talk a little bit about 04:06 what blood pressure is. 04:07 Blood pressure is when the pressure inside our blood 04:10 vessels is higher than normal. 04:11 Okay. Okay. So what's normal? 04:13 You know, number, normal, once we start getting above 130. 04:17 They call that pre-diabetic. 04:18 Above 140 that's... I mean pre-diabetic, pre-hypertensive. 04:22 But above 140, 150 it's starting to get higher. Okay? 04:25 And if it goes high for long periods of time, it damages the 04:29 blood vessel, you know? 04:30 And, for instance, weight lifters, 04:32 you know, when they do all that grunting. 04:33 Their blood pressure goes really high. 04:35 Long distance runners; sometimes if they're sprinting, 04:38 their blood pressure goes up for short periods of time. 04:40 It damages the blood vessels. 04:42 So any time the blood pressure is up day in and day out, 04:46 we call that hypertension. Right. 04:48 And when a person comes in with hypertension, I think of, Well, 04:51 that's more of a cause. 04:53 What causes it? Okay? 04:54 I don't think about, It's a symptom. 04:56 It's the symptom of a stressor. Right. 04:59 And the most common ones is the people's diet. 05:01 They eat foods that cause high blood pressure. 05:03 Foods high in fat, high in sodium, that's up there. 05:06 Some people carry a lot of weight and don't exercise. 05:09 That can cause it. 05:11 Some people are stressed out all the time. 05:14 That can cause high blood pressure. 05:16 And then there's medical causes that cause it. 05:19 So, like high blood pressure can be triggered by sleep apnea. 05:23 People don't sleep good at night. 05:24 They quit breathing. 05:26 They breathe like this... 05:28 They breathe like that. 05:30 So they don't get good oxygen. 05:32 Right, they don't get good oxygen. 05:33 When oxygen goes down your body makes 05:35 alarms to wake you up. 05:36 You're in an emergency state so you make adrenalin, 05:39 and cortisol, and both those raise your blood pressure. 05:41 You know, it's just kind of funny to watch you do that. 05:44 But it's not a funny condition if that's the future.. 05:46 You get tired and you wear out. 05:47 It's a stressor. It raises your blood pressure. 05:49 Thyroid disease, kidney disease, different medical conditions can 05:53 raise your blood pressure. 05:54 Even certain medicines can raise your blood pressure. 05:57 So anyway, once a person has high blood pressure, 05:59 the key is to check it at home where they're nice and relaxed. 06:02 Because some people just have it because they get nervous 06:04 in the doctor's office. 06:06 We call that white coat hypertension. Right. 06:08 It's not really. It's they just get scared. 06:10 So you have some deep breaths, take it with the 06:12 appropriate sized cuff. 06:13 If it's high every single time, then see if you can find 06:17 out the reason why. 06:18 So some people's blood pressure will come down just by eating 06:21 less of the bad foods, the salty foods. 06:23 Some people will by exercise. 06:24 Some people have a medical... 06:26 But let's say you look at everything, 06:27 That no one can find it, and it's still high, okay? 06:30 Sometimes people can go to medications. 06:33 But we've learned that there's foods, and it seems like we have 06:35 proof, and I'm going to give the ones that have the 06:37 studies on it first. Okay. 06:39 But there's also other inductive reasoning that we can show that 06:43 other foods would lower it. 06:44 So we've talked about beets. Right. 06:46 Okay? We've also talked about hibiscus. 06:49 There've been studies with hibiscus that shows it 06:51 lowers blood pressure. 06:53 Greens, because it has nitrates lower blood pressure. 06:57 Flax has been shown to lower blood pressure. 07:00 Also different things like different fruits can sometimes 07:05 lower it a little bit. 07:07 But if you think about it, a lot of the foods that have nitrates 07:12 in them should be able to lower blood pressure, too, 07:14 even if the studies haven't been done. 07:16 So anything like the green foods that we talked about: 07:19 the arugula, the rhubarb, the cilantro, the leaf lettuce, 07:22 the greens; all of those that may have nitrates in them should 07:26 be able to help lower the blood pressure, too. Right. 07:29 Now some people that start eating more plants lower their 07:32 blood pressure, not only because of the plants, but they quit 07:35 eating all the other stuff that makes the blood pressure go up. 07:38 They fill upon the good stuff, and therefore they eat 07:40 less of the bad stuff. 07:41 Yes, and you know, things like salty foods, 07:45 and some of the processed foods. 07:47 All that stuff. And people don't realize it, but in some meat 07:50 products, they actually inject salt to make it more puffy, 07:54 and to keep it preserved. 07:56 You know, that's how people preserved things through the 07:58 ages is they put salt in it to preserve it. 08:00 Well, salt also gets in our body; we take too much salt, 08:04 our blood pressure comes up. 08:05 So I hope that answers the blood pressure question. 08:08 It's more complicated than just taking a beet to lower 08:14 the blood pressure. 08:15 You want to know why the blood pressure's caused, 08:17 look at all your options. 08:18 If you can get at the cause, then maybe you don't have to 08:21 eat as many beets, or whatever way you and your physician 08:23 decide to treat your blood pressure. 08:25 But blood pressure over long term is a chronic disease, 08:29 and it can damage your heart, it can damage your blood vessels, 08:31 it can damage your kidneys, it can damage your brain artery. 08:34 So we want to bring that blood pressure down. 08:36 Sounds like a good... I like the idea of eating the good stuff; 08:40 filling up on the good stuff, so you don't need, 08:43 or have the hunger for the bad stuff. 08:44 But if I can get people to eat more plants, exercise, 08:47 keep the stress down, deep breathing, usually their blood 08:50 pressure comes down pretty easily. 08:52 Well, we're going to take a quick look at a 08:54 Biblical Prescription for Life, and then we're going to 08:56 wrap up after that. 09:00 I'm Dr. James Marcum with your Biblical Prescription for Life. 09:04 A patient came to the office the other day having quite a bit of 09:08 pain; already on two pain medications. 09:11 I recommended this Biblical Prescription from 09:21 Did you know that when we're laughing, when we're happy, 09:24 and when we're joking around, and we're feeling good, 09:26 it makes a chemical in our body go up called endorphins. 09:30 Endorphins are very helpful in fighting pain. 09:33 Endorphins also help lower stress chemistry, 09:36 and just makes us feel good. 09:38 So by laughing, and being happy, and joking guess what? 09:41 You increase your endorphins, and lower your pain. 09:44 This Biblical Prescription was given to my patient, 09:47 and guess what? He started having improvement in his pain 09:51 almost immediately. 09:52 I'm Dr. James Marcum with your Biblical Prescription for Life. 09:58 You know, Dr. Marcum, there's so many ways, so many different 10:01 things that we can do to improve our health. 10:03 It's not just eating beets. 10:05 It's not just exercising. 10:06 Worship, singing, having a joyful spirit 10:09 is also part of it. 10:11 Yeah, and I wish I had a good joke to tell you. 10:13 I'd get your endorphins to go up, lower your stress, 10:15 lower your blood pressure, if I could make a good joke. 10:18 I'm going to work on that. 10:19 Yep. If you'd like to learn more about how you can experience 10:22 better health, and live in accordance with what God has 10:23 designed, visit our website at: 10:27 You can also find the Bible study program, the seven week 10:29 Bible study, Biblical Prescriptions for Life at 10:32 BiblicalPrescriptions.com/3abn 10:35 And you can purchase your copy by calling 3ABN direct at: 10:42 Thank you so much for joining us on today's program. 10:44 And Dr. Marcum is going to close in just a moment with a prayer. 10:52 As we wrap up our 100th episode of Ultimate Prescription, 10:57 I want to have a special prayer thanking our God. 11:01 Let's bow our heads. 11:03 Dear Heavenly Father, we want to thank You for everyone that's 11:07 been involved with this program, for helping them to do their 11:10 jobs to glorify You. 11:12 We want to thank You for being our Ultimate Prescription, 11:16 our ultimate path to healing. 11:18 And please help us to keep You in our lives every day 11:22 is our prayer today, Amen. 11:25 You might have questions, or want special prayer, 11:29 or pray for others, I want to encourage you to visit 11:33 our website. That's 11:37 You'll see the prayer page, a place where you can ask the 11:40 doctor; many different resources there. 11:43 And until next time, I'm Dr. James Marcum wishing you 11:47 the best of health. |
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