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00:02 If you're just joining us, 00:04 today's program is about nutrition 00:05 when it comes to cardiovascular health. 00:07 And, Dr. Marcum, before the break 00:09 I told everyone that we were going to talk 00:10 about your favorite heart health promoting dish, 00:13 so what is it? 00:15 Well, you know, I'm pretty healthy nowadays 00:17 about eating especially since I had my blood sugar 00:20 scare about a year ago. 00:22 So in the mornings for instance, you know, 00:23 this isn't not my favorite, but I like oatmeal 00:25 and I put some flax on it I put, you know, 00:28 flax helps lower the blood pressure, 00:29 fiber helps things out. 00:31 I like to put some berries which are antioxidants. 00:34 Remember, antioxidants slow down DNA damage. 00:38 So all the fruits 00:40 and vegetables have antioxidants, 00:41 in fact here's one of my favorite antioxidants, 00:43 is have a little fruit tea, 00:45 you know, to have some raspberry 00:47 four or five calories in the water 00:48 so I can hydrate myself. 00:50 Bathe my floor with antioxidants 00:53 and I can sip a little bit of that all day long, 00:55 you know, how nice is that? 00:57 And on a cold day it's your and I stays up warm. 01:00 Yeah, so, but at lunch the nitrate rich greens 01:05 that I have is arugula, 01:07 not everyone likes the taste of arugula 01:09 just like not everyone likes cilantro. 01:11 You like cilantro? Yeah, yeah. 01:13 Yeah, some people eat cilantro and it tastes like soap 01:15 but I've heard that with arugula, 01:17 some people have a genetic distaste for arugula. 01:20 But arugula has some of the highest nitrates 01:23 rich content that's out there. 01:25 All right, now what do nitrates do for us? 01:26 Well, nitrates in the plant, it does nothing, 01:29 you know, beets have nitrates, 01:31 beans have nitrates, greens have nitrates, 01:33 but when you eat it, okay, 01:35 it's transformed into a chemical 01:37 called nitric oxide 01:38 which makes the arteries bigger. 01:40 When the arteries get bigger, it brings down blood pressure, 01:43 it also has other mechanisms that seems to make it safe 01:47 and also you get all, 01:48 you know, within that you also get antioxidants too. 01:51 So I like to put lots of vegetables and arugula 01:54 and I eat a big salad every day 01:56 and you sort of been over 01:57 and you've seen some of the big salads I make. 01:59 I just make some big salads. 02:00 What I like about salads is this, I like to feel full, 02:04 okay, you know, I can eat a pound 02:06 or two or three pounds of salad and it's very little calories. 02:10 Yeah, it's still very healthy even it's in large quantity. 02:12 A pound of vegetables is about 100 calories, 02:15 you know, I could eat five pounds if I wanted to, 02:16 500 calories that's not very much 02:18 and yet you get all of the good things 02:20 that help cardiovascular health 02:22 so I would say arugula and constantly bathing my body 02:25 with antioxidants, 02:27 just focusing on healthy things 02:28 and also when you focus on positive things 02:31 and you develop those taste, 02:33 I love spicy things, you know, I, you know, 02:36 if my salads not tasting good, I might try a vinaigrette, 02:39 I might put a little hot sauce in it to bring it to life. 02:42 I even put hot sauce on my potatoes 02:44 and I've all different types of hot sauce that I like. 02:47 Now, the problem is, once you become 02:50 a hot sauce junkie, 02:51 okay, you go around 02:52 and look for different types of hot sauces 02:55 and so I tried to get different types 02:57 and, you know, I love to eat Thai hot, 02:59 you know, different types of hot, 03:00 but that's what brings food to life 03:02 and I try not to use a lot of it 03:03 because if you lose, you want to get potent rather, 03:05 because some of them have a lot of salt in it. 03:07 Yeah. Right. 03:08 So those are some things that I do to help bathe my body 03:13 in healthy things and also, 03:15 it keeps me from eating the bad things. 03:17 Yeah, right. 03:18 You know, once I fill up with good things, 03:19 I'm less likely to get that. 03:21 And once you start eating this way, 03:22 and realizing that nutrition is very valuable, 03:26 it just helps a whole lot. 03:27 In fact, I take care of a lot of people, Nick, 03:31 we talk about cardiovascular disease, 03:33 like some have arteries that are little, 03:35 okay, in the heart. 03:37 Remember, we have lots of arteries 03:38 through all of our bodies, 03:39 and whenever we eat too much of the bad stuff, 03:41 you store fat in the arteries, 03:43 so fat and sodium 03:45 are the cardiovascular system's enemy. 03:47 That's the cause of a lot of disease with genetics 03:50 and it starts when we're young, 03:51 you know, I have people that start this disease 03:53 in their teenage years, you know. 03:56 I've seen type 2 diabetics in kids 03:58 as young as eight or nine years 04:00 because they're eating fat, they're not exercising. 04:02 So anyway, when they come in, I explain the physiology, 04:06 I said, Listen, you've already been to the surgeon, 04:07 your arteries are too small to bypass, 04:09 we can't put in stents, usually these are diabetics. 04:12 And you already can't walk because you heard 04:14 that's called angina, 04:16 I go well, we have some some food type treatments 04:19 for angina that I like to give a try. 04:22 So rather than to have that discussion, 04:24 I made a short spot on that not too long ago 04:27 and people can use these spots, right? 04:29 Yeah, absolutely. 04:30 We have a series of videos, just short 60 second videos 04:33 on our website that you can download, 04:35 you can share with your friends, 04:37 share on social media, however you'd like. 04:38 We'd like to share this information 04:40 and help people turn to Biblical Prescriptions 04:42 rather than have these chronic diseases 04:45 plug them and then they have to have procedures 04:46 and other medications down the road, 04:48 so a place they can go is HeartWiseMinistries.org 04:51 and then click the link 04:52 to the Biblical Prescriptions page, 04:54 and you'll find lots of resources there 04:55 that you can use to help promote this. 04:57 So let's go ahead and take a look now. 04:59 Yeah, let's look at that. 05:01 I'm Dr. James Marcum, 05:03 with your Biblical Prescription for Life. 05:06 One of my patients came in the other day 05:07 having more angina, 05:09 that's pain when you walk and do things. 05:11 He was already on medications and it had some procedures, 05:14 I suggested 05:15 a Biblical Prescription for Life, 05:17 Genesis 1:29, 05:20 this text talks about how we get back 05:22 to God's plan of eating, eating more fruits and grains 05:26 and seeds that our body does better. 05:28 Numerous studies have shown that 05:30 when we eat this way our body makes substances 05:32 that make our arteries bigger. 05:34 When he started to eat this way, 05:36 his arteries got bigger, 05:38 he had less chest pain, and he had less symptoms. 05:40 So he did this almost every day he ate his greens. 05:44 Think about it, a Biblical Prescription 05:46 for Life is eating the plants which God put everywhere 05:49 throughout the world. 05:51 I'm Dr. James Marcum, and this is your 05:54 Biblical Prescriptions for Life. 05:58 You know, Dr. Marcum, one way that I've benefited 06:01 is I like to ride my bike a lot. 06:02 Yep. 06:04 And you've told me that the nitric oxide 06:05 from greens and beets is a good thing. 06:08 And it actually helps lower, 06:10 when I'm doing a really high intensity workout 06:12 it helps lower the amount of pain 06:14 or difficulty that I feel. 06:16 It feels easier than it should 06:18 and it's just 'cause I'm helping myself 06:20 with some greens. 06:21 Yeah, and people with real bad angina, 06:23 I've had some people 06:24 that can't walk across the street 06:26 because they have angina's pain 06:27 when they do things, in the jaw. 06:29 It really limits their lifestyle, 06:31 all not a lot of medicines, 06:33 and they start and I prescribe them 06:35 not so much greens in their salads but I say, 06:38 well, eat some greens every three or four hours. 06:41 They'll have a bag and they'll chew the greens up 06:43 every three or four hours and when you all of a sudden 06:45 see them that they used to not be able 06:47 to walk 100 yards without symptoms, 06:49 now they can go quite a long period of time. 06:52 It just really reinforcing and then realize, 06:54 you know, God has given us things in His world 06:58 that can help treat disease. 06:59 But why not prevent it a little bit? 07:01 That's what I like to do. 07:03 Now, we haven't always had this issue 07:04 of having too much fat and too much salt in our diet. 07:08 When did this happen? How we got into this place? 07:11 Well you know, 07:12 the only thing that's one of the constants 07:14 in life is change, 07:16 you know, and we talked about 07:17 how cardiovascular disease has changed, 07:19 our understanding of nutrition has changed too. 07:22 Mostly we didn't even think about it for many years 07:24 but if you think back to a time around 07:26 the Industrial Revolution, 07:28 when technology got to the place 07:30 where we could have refrigeration, 07:32 we could store foods, life got easy, 07:35 you know, and then all of a sudden people started 07:36 having refrigerators, okay, 07:39 then we became a society where we were rich, 07:43 you know, when we ate the king's foods. 07:45 You know, the king's foods were the meats 07:47 and the heavy stuff, 07:48 you know, we quit eating out of the garden 07:50 as much as we started moving into cities, 07:52 things got more convenient. 07:54 We quit eating 07:55 all the fresh fruits and vegetables. 07:57 In fact, it's been estimated now, Nick, 07:59 that as many as 95% of people 08:01 don't get enough fiber every day. 08:04 Why is fiber so important? 08:06 Well, not only it helps cardiovascular help, 08:08 but it improves the bowel, 08:10 you know, the good and bad bacteria, 08:12 when you have lots of fiber in it, 08:14 your good bacteria make a chemical called butyrate 08:17 that feeds them so they grow 08:19 and they turn off some of the bad bacteria 08:21 which cause inflammation, disease, damages, 08:24 irritable bowel, helps us. 08:26 There's a chemical that's made called 08:27 trimethyl amine oxidase, 08:30 which is an atherogenic material, 08:32 which means it clogs up arteries, 08:33 that's not good. 08:35 And we get that when we have 08:36 a lot of the animal type flow in us. 08:38 Things like carnitine, you know, and things like that, 08:41 that comes from the fat, the foods we eat the eggs, 08:43 the meats, that feeds the bad bacteria. 08:46 So just understanding this, 08:48 we've learned this with nutrition 08:49 through the years. 08:51 So for years, we didn't know all this, 08:52 so people kept eating this bad food 08:54 and then all of a sudden guess what, 08:55 we had fast food comes on the scene. 08:57 Right, yeah, that didn't help. 08:58 No, I mean, and then, you know, bless their hearts, 09:01 all these fast food places came up over, 09:03 and then that our society kept going faster. 09:06 I've had some patients that come to me and I said, 09:08 well, let's talk about some nutritional therapy 09:11 and they look a little funny, 09:12 what is that I never heard of that. 09:14 I say, "Well, tell me where you eat?" 09:15 Well, they eat Hardees for breakfast, 09:18 you know, they get a biscuit. 09:19 They might go to McDonald's for lunch 09:21 and then in the evening they don't eat, 09:24 they go out and they have something else 09:25 so people are not eating at home. 09:27 And first there I say, I let them think about it, 09:29 I said, "Man, you're taking too much fat and sodium, 09:32 which is damaging your cardiovascular system." 09:35 So I said, "Well, let's try to eat one healthy meal a day 09:38 and we start somewhere and we build up." 09:39 Well, this is what's happened through years and years. 09:42 Well, through years, modern medicine 09:43 hasn't understood how important nutrition was 09:46 just like cigarettes, we didn't really understand 09:48 how important cigarettes were and for years, you would say, 09:51 you know, sees doctor smoking cigarettes 09:53 and it was bad. 09:55 It takes time, 09:56 sometimes it takes time to see things 09:58 over a course of generations. 10:00 Well, I see that in nutrition, it's taking some time 10:03 but now we have the evidence based studies 10:05 and me personally, 10:07 I got to meet Colin Campbell, read the book, 10:09 "The China Study" 10:10 then this nutritional craze started going wild now, 10:14 as nutrition got out there, and the internet, 10:16 we're seeing people, healthy meals 10:17 at restaurants now, 10:19 we're seeing people start shopping 10:20 at the produce section. 10:22 We're seeing healthy meals that they can, 10:24 you know, healthier meals that they can even freeze 10:26 and do what they want to. 10:28 So it sort of evolved over time, 10:29 this nutritional movement, 10:31 but I see this is a very powerful thing, 10:33 a very powerful lifestyle that gets back to way 10:35 God designed this at the very beginning. 10:37 Yeah. 10:38 Remember Daniel and his friends, 10:39 remembered the creation, 10:41 they didn't have all this processed foods. 10:42 God wants us to head this direction 10:44 and He wants to give us the power 10:46 to see the importance of these changes. 10:47 Yeah, I guess it can be said that 10:49 with great technology comes great responsibility, 10:52 just as refrigerators and microwave 10:53 and all these kind of things, 10:55 you know, it's great to use them 10:56 but let's do it in a way that we're still eating healthy 10:59 whole foods and not just a bunch of, 11:01 you know, stuff that's a bunch of salt and fat in it. 11:03 Yep. All right. 11:05 Well, we've got a free offer 11:06 I want to throw out there for our viewers. 11:07 If you'd like more information on eating healthy nutrition 11:11 for cardiovascular health, 11:12 go to Biblical Prescriptions.com/Nutrition, 11:15 you can download our free guide to optimal nutrition there, 11:18 and we pray that it'll be a blessing to you. 11:20 And Dr. Marcum is gonna close the program in just a moment. 11:31 One of the main points I want to leave with you today 11:34 is for people to realize that the food you eat 11:37 can contribute to our health and some of the foods we eat 11:40 can actually cause problems. 11:42 Many patients I have come to the office don't realize 11:45 that their nutrition and their physiology 11:48 and their diseases are interrelated. 11:50 So I hope that, that point is well made today. 11:52 And you can use your food to treat cardiovascular health 11:55 and also prevent cardiovascular health problems. 11:59 But we do this from the power we get from the great physician 12:02 who leads us. 12:03 I want to pray for you right now, 12:04 as we end this program. 12:08 Heavenly Father, there are many viewing this 12:10 around the world 12:12 and I want to pray for each one, 12:13 that You come into their heart and help them to accept you 12:16 as a source of truth in their lives. 12:19 And there's some of us that might need to eat better 12:21 and do better and learn new things, 12:22 Father, please bring us along one step at a time. 12:26 And we want to thank you so much 12:27 for hearing our prayer and being our Lord and Savior. 12:30 Now go with us this day is our prayer. 12:33 Amen. 12:35 Thank you for joining us, 12:37 and we'll be back next time 12:38 with another Biblical Prescription. |
Revised 2019-03-14