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Movement Part 2

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00:01 Welcome back to the Ultimate Prescription.
00:02 If you're just joining us,
00:04 today's discussion is about movement,
00:05 and the things that we get from it,
00:06 the benefits and also the risks involved.
00:08 Sometimes Dr. Marcum, there're situations
00:11 where we probably shouldn't move, is that right?
00:14 Yeah, there are a few, Nick.
00:15 But, believe me,
00:17 there is more reason to move than not to move.
00:19 Most people don't have that problem.
00:21 But let's talk about some,
00:22 if you have an acute problem, okay.
00:25 Okay, what's an acute problem?
00:27 Let's say, you're out and you get hit by a truck,
00:31 okay, and you're bleeding,
00:33 okay, that would not be a time to go exercise.
00:35 An emergency situation.
00:37 An emergency situation,
00:38 that's not the time to keep
00:39 on your regular exercise program,
00:41 so most people understand that.
00:43 Let's say you have a medical condition
00:44 like anemia,
00:46 where you don't have enough blood cells.
00:47 Well, if you exercise
00:49 you might get short of breath quicker,
00:51 so that might not be the best,
00:52 if you have a medical condition that's active.
00:55 Thyroid disease is another one,
00:57 'cause thyroid regulates your metabolism.
00:59 If you're having a heart attack or active heart symptoms,
01:03 usually when you exercise, you have a problem
01:05 'cause you're not, your circulation stopped,
01:07 you have a blockage, it hurts,
01:08 you have angina, right, your pain,
01:10 extreme shortness of breath.
01:11 If you have an active medical problem,
01:13 that's not the time to exercise.
01:16 If you have angina, if you have a heart attack,
01:18 if you're in heart failure,
01:19 we have to get you out of heart failure
01:22 before we treat their acute before we work on the chronic.
01:26 Okay, so if you have an acute medical problem,
01:28 that's not the time to do it.
01:30 When is another time not to exercise?
01:31 Well, let's say...
01:33 Now these are extreme situations.
01:35 Let's say,
01:36 you haven't had anything to eat in two or three days,
01:38 okay. Sure, you're running on empty.
01:39 Yeah, you're running on empty,
01:40 and the food's not coming for a while.
01:42 You know, that might a time you hold off on your movement
01:45 or exercise a little bit, conserve your energy until.
01:48 So most of the time that people cannot move,
01:51 use common sense.
01:53 Now, here's the big one,
01:54 okay, that I see people make the mistake on.
01:56 Now, most people don't make the mistakes on those.
01:59 But I have a group of patients that have joint pains,
02:04 okay, that have a bad joint,
02:05 whether it be a knee, an elbow, or something,
02:08 and they continue to exercise.
02:10 And it continues to hurt,
02:11 and it continues to be inflamed,
02:13 and it continues to get worse.
02:15 The most common part of the body
02:17 that does that is the low back.
02:19 I see people have low back pain,
02:20 oh, I can go to work, I can keep working,
02:23 I can do this, I can do this,
02:24 so it never heals, it never heals.
02:27 It has this chronic inflammation,
02:29 sooner or later the muscles shift,
02:30 the nerves become aggravated,
02:32 and then it makes a little problem a big problem.
02:35 Whereas they just would've rested the part a while,
02:38 it would've healed on its own.
02:40 Joint problems, you know,
02:42 oh, my knee is gonna get better tomorrow,
02:44 I could go on that run today.
02:45 You know, oh, I'm training for this Olympic type event,
02:49 I got to train today, I got to train today.
02:51 But they are having some type of pain,
02:53 either in the hip, or the leg,
02:54 that if they would just wait till that would heal,
02:56 then they wouldn't make it worse than it already was.
02:59 So people that want to do better,
03:01 that are a little bit stubborn,
03:02 they won't listen to their body.
03:04 Remember, a body is having a symptom of pain
03:07 or shortness of breath for a reason,
03:10 and if you can understand the reason why,
03:11 and let the body heal, a lot of times a joint,
03:14 where the low back pain will heal on its own.
03:17 Now there's some situations
03:18 where it's not gonna heal on its own,
03:20 and then you shouldn't be using it
03:22 because you just gonna make it worse
03:23 and destroy that body part sooner,
03:25 especially in joint pains.
03:27 You know, if you have a bad joint,
03:28 you keep using it over and over,
03:30 you can actually accelerate wearing that joint out.
03:33 So joint pain,
03:34 you shouldn't keep working on it
03:36 and working out, needing rest.
03:38 It's the pain what's causing it. Right.
03:39 But how about things like,
03:40 let's say, you have some congestion,
03:42 or sinuses, or sore throat, or cough,
03:44 or maybe a little of bit flu,
03:45 are those, this is what my wife and I talk about.
03:47 Is it okay to do some exercise?
03:48 Is it good for you for a little movement?
03:50 Yes, to a certain degree.
03:52 Now, if it's making you feel terrible,
03:53 now there is no guidelines on this,
03:55 but the recommendations are when you exercise
03:58 you get better flow of oxygen to the body,
04:00 you get better circulation,
04:02 you aid some of things you need.
04:04 But also sometimes you do need rest,
04:06 the body needs physical rest too,
04:08 so that's the balance.
04:09 Now, I don't think someone's sick
04:11 needs to be on their back all day,
04:13 if they can get up
04:14 and move the parts and move around,
04:15 that helps other things stay functional.
04:17 So we wanna stay functional,
04:19 now whether you should do a little bit light exercise,
04:21 that's what I recommend, light stuff like moving around,
04:24 still do the stretching, as much as you can
04:26 before you have a symptom.
04:28 But always check with your physician,
04:30 who knows your overall medical condition.
04:32 Yeah, I kind of relate to the joint pain a little bit.
04:34 When I was in high school, I was on the acrobatics team,
04:37 and I had an injury to my knee.
04:40 And I didn't do the proper physical therapy
04:42 like my therapist told me I needed to unfortunately.
04:44 And so I just kept re-injuring it over and over,
04:47 and I never gave it the proper attention it needed,
04:49 and it just got worse and worse.
04:51 So I've really learned
04:52 to really how to take care of those things.
04:54 Yeah, and I see people a lot,
04:55 they say, "Oh, I have a little bit of back pain,"
04:57 and yet they won't rest it.
04:58 I got to go to work, I got to do the lifting,
05:01 I got to help,
05:02 you know, unload, I got to help my family move,
05:04 or whatever, and they never let it heal.
05:06 And then a little problem becomes a big problem.
05:10 So there are situations, but most of those situations,
05:13 Nick, just require some common sense.
05:15 Yeah, we've got a question from a viewer
05:18 that's kind of related to this discussion.
05:20 They're having severe pain in their knee,
05:22 and their doctor wants them
05:23 to have a knee replacement surgery.
05:26 Is there any way around having the surgery?
05:28 Well, it's really according to the reason
05:30 why the knee is having so much pain.
05:33 Remember, a knee has muscles, bones, cartilage, ligaments,
05:38 blood supply, many things make up a knee.
05:41 For instance, if you tear your anterior cruciate ligament,
05:45 okay, then that's gonna need to be repaired.
05:47 'Cause that's gonna continue to hurt,
05:48 you gonna lose mobility.
05:50 So at that time the benefit of fixing the problem
05:53 and relieving the pain
05:54 and bringing back mobility for the future,
05:56 so you can't exercise
05:59 overcomes the risk.
06:01 As we age, sometimes we lose cartilage,
06:04 and we get this condition called bone on bone.
06:06 You know, where we have osteoarthritis in the joints,
06:09 they rub each other and they hurt a lot.
06:12 Well, again, some people can put up with that
06:14 for several years,
06:15 some people get so bad that they can't walk.
06:18 So remember, not moving is a stressor,
06:21 having pain is a stressor.
06:23 So when the benefits outweigh the risk,
06:26 then it's time to consider,
06:28 I'm having some type of joint procedure.
06:30 Now, there are many out there now.
06:32 They do partial joint replacements,
06:34 they do total joint replacements,
06:36 there's some things they can do,
06:38 they can fix it now with arthroscopes,
06:40 the ligaments, and different things.
06:41 So there's a lot of different things
06:43 that a specialist in this called orthopedics can do
06:46 that we can never do before.
06:47 Hundreds and hundreds years ago,
06:49 your joint wore out, you were crippled, okay.
06:52 Nowadays we can keep people moving later in life,
06:55 so this is a great place for modern medicine,
06:58 'cause it keeps you moving,
06:59 so you can continue therapy on the rest of your body,
07:02 so that's one of the places
07:03 where I think modern medicine really helps
07:05 is keep people ambulating, moving,
07:07 so they improve their circulation.
07:09 Now think about it just a second,
07:11 we talked about movement.
07:12 Movement helps oxygen get everywhere in the body,
07:14 which helps every organ, it helps your moving.
07:17 When you're moving the bones and muscles,
07:20 it prevents the muscle from breaking down as much,
07:23 so you don't lose as much muscle breakdown.
07:25 It helps as a treatment for osteoporosis,
07:28 it helps your muscle stay strong,
07:29 so you don't lose as much muscle,
07:31 it helps every metabolism in the body.
07:34 If you need to lose weight, movement helps you lose weight.
07:37 If you need to control the blood sugar,
07:38 movement helps you control blood sugar.
07:40 Movement helps lower the blood pressure,
07:42 movement helps slow down that changes the dementia.
07:45 It can actually improve dementia.
07:47 So movement is a biblical prescription
07:50 that you can use for every part of your body.
07:53 Isn't that pretty cool?
07:54 And yet we don't stress that, when someone comes in,
07:56 if you write down on the prescription pad.
07:58 Movement,
07:59 45 minutes of rope exercise, 15 minutes...
08:01 If you write that, sometimes people don't take it seriously,
08:04 you know, but if I charge them for that,
08:06 and if I can help them understand the importance
08:09 like we're doing today,
08:10 that movement is very important.
08:12 So some people they come and they say,
08:14 I just can't do anything.
08:16 You know, what do you do with that person?
08:17 You know, I can't even do anything,
08:19 I just wanna sit at the couch all day long,
08:21 and not move at all.
08:23 What do you do with those people?
08:24 If you could tell me about the guy
08:26 who's doing four steps at a time,
08:28 you know, that's pretty inspiring to me.
08:30 You know, I'm in pretty good health,
08:31 but this guy is in really bad shape,
08:33 but he's just doing four steps at a time,
08:34 and then five steps at a time, and then six steps at a time.
08:37 And that's what I tell, I try to be positive about,
08:40 I'd say, listen, you know,
08:41 we have a savior that saves you,
08:43 and He makes up for our weaknesses, okay.
08:46 Ask Him, as you move with Him every day,
08:49 ask Him for a little help.
08:50 You know, there's something that He'll help you with
08:52 if you ask Him, and have faith to move forward,
08:54 you know, and just doing that.
08:57 One person I had even started
08:58 with just deep breathing ten times, three times a day.
09:02 So you start somewhere
09:03 and you build on it and you grow.
09:06 Now we'll talk just for a second,
09:08 we're talking about movement and a lot of the discussion
09:10 has been about kind of low intensity movement,
09:12 what do you tell the folks
09:14 who are maybe addicted to exercise?
09:15 Some people they like to do super long endurance events,
09:19 you know, ultra marathons
09:21 and century bike rides all the time, and it's kind of,
09:23 maybe it's somewhat kind of their therapy.
09:25 Is that healthy or what do you say?
09:27 Those are sometimes the hardest ones to treat,
09:29 because movement and exercise is so beneficial,
09:32 okay, it's beneficial.
09:34 But at some points they can overdo it.
09:36 And some athletes,
09:38 the high level athlete's
09:40 movement and exercise can be addictive.
09:43 They need that dopamine rush
09:45 that happens from exercising and even competing.
09:48 And for them,
09:49 I have to tell people it's about a balance.
09:51 You know, life is about a balance,
09:53 you know, there's a place for modern medicine,
09:55 there's a place for lifestyle, but in finding that balance,
09:59 the only person that can really change
10:01 someone's heart is Christ.
10:03 You know, I can't do it for them.
10:05 I can just turn them and say, listen, I know somebody
10:07 that if you spend time with Him every day,
10:09 He's gonna help you understand balance.
10:11 But if you're breaking down muscles,
10:13 if you feel like you have to exercise 40 hours a day,
10:17 you know, that's way more than 24.
10:18 You know, if you're overdoing it,
10:20 and it becomes in excessive, it becomes a God to you,
10:24 then for sure that's too much.
10:26 But only God can help people see those truths.
10:28 I guess the reason
10:30 why we're doing something is really the key,
10:31 because if we're doing it just for our own glory, to say,
10:34 "Oh, look what I can do. Look what I've accomplished.
10:36 Look how healthy and fit I am.
10:38 That's the wrong reason.
10:39 Right, and remember that text in Bible, it says,
10:41 "Do all to the glory of God."
10:44 You know,
10:45 so if we're exercising and moving,
10:46 we want to do that to His glory.
10:48 If we're doing it to our glory, then that's not a good thing.
10:51 Now some people use athletics as their platform
10:54 to witness to other people.
10:55 So that might be a good thing,
10:57 and then some people need extra exercise
11:00 to prevent chronic medical problems,
11:02 for them it might be a good thing.
11:04 So it's individual,
11:05 and there's no rule black or white,
11:07 there's a grey area
11:09 based on each individual's overall situation.
11:11 Yeah, but in all things, I liked that,
11:13 in all things to the glory of God,
11:15 that should be our focus.
11:16 You know, what I like is, play.
11:18 Make exercise play, make it fun.
11:20 You know, find some way to make it fun,
11:22 and stay plugged into it.
11:23 That's right.
11:24 Well, I wanna mention our free offer here,
11:26 as were coming to the close of the program.
11:28 The Biblical Prescriptions for Life Bible study program
11:30 is a seven week small group Bible study.
11:32 It's a great resource,
11:33 but if you want just a sample of that,
11:35 go to BiblicalPrescriptions.com /Movement,
11:39 and you can download our free guide
11:40 to "Walking with God."
11:41 There's a lot of great resources
11:43 in that document,
11:44 they'll help you remember to make movement part
11:46 of your regular routine,
11:47 as well as doing for the right reasons,
11:49 building on that relationship with God
11:50 and walking down your life
11:52 in your path with Him towards eternity.
11:55 Dr. Marcum, thank you so much for your thoughts on movement,
11:57 and also cautions
11:59 about when we should maybe take it easy and rest.
12:01 I think those are very important.
12:02 Okay, my pleasure, Nick.
12:04 All right.
12:05 I hope you enjoyed the program, and stay with us.
12:07 Dr. Marcum's gonna close with prayer in just a moment.
12:17 We've been talking about the importance of movement,
12:21 but I also want you to keep
12:22 in mind the importance of moving with God.
12:26 And as we move with God each day in our relationship,
12:29 He can help us see truth,
12:30 and He can help us start moving.
12:32 And I want each one of you to think, well,
12:35 what's something I can do
12:36 to improve my movement each day?
12:38 Can it be getting out of this chair
12:40 and walking around?
12:42 Can it be a walking program?
12:43 What can I do to improve my movement?
12:46 I wanna pray for your movement program today.
12:48 So let's bow our heads.
12:50 Dear Heavenly Father, as we bow before You,
12:53 we wanna thank You
12:54 for being a Lord that's created movement,
12:56 created a universe that moves, and created our bodies to move.
13:00 And we wanna thank You, and praise you.
13:02 Thank you for moving in our hearts today,
13:04 and having a relationship with us, Father.
13:06 And some of us need to improve in moving,
13:09 please show us how to do it one step at a time.
13:11 And as we move,
13:12 help us to also think about moving with You,
13:15 as we move through light to our ultimate destination.
13:18 Thank You so much for being with us
13:20 and I pray for each of our listeners today.
13:22 This is my prayer, amen.
13:26 Wow, we heard a lot about moving today.
13:28 I hope it's inspired you.
13:30 If you wanna get hold of me,
13:32 feel free to contact me at my website,
13:34 that's HeartWiseMinistries.org.
13:38 And I'll be happy to pray for you,
13:39 or to encourage you on your movement program.
13:42 So until next time, keep moving those body parts.


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