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HW 2026-06-18 Website Questions - Dr. James Marcum & Nick · Heartwise

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Speaker 1: This is Heartwise, offering practical tips and time proven guidelines
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Speaker 1: to make your life healthier, happier, and more fulfilling. Today
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Speaker 1: you'll learn simple, Bible based principles for building and maintaining
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Speaker 1: optimum mental and physical health, all while deepening your relationship
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Speaker 1: with your creator. Here's your Heartwise host, doctor James Markham.
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Speaker 2: Well, good day to everyone. We like to welcome you
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Speaker 2: to Heartwise, and we have some interesting questions that have
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Speaker 2: come into our website today. And for those who want
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Speaker 2: to know how we generate our programming, well, you generate
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Speaker 2: the program by sending us questions to our website that's
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Speaker 2: Heartwiseministries dot org and we plan to answer them every
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Speaker 2: week right here on air with you. You And if
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Speaker 2: you have a question, just go to our website Heartwisministries
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Speaker 2: dot org and we'll either get a specialist or look
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Speaker 2: up to your answer. Because right now in healthcare, it's
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Speaker 2: hard to know whom or what to believe. You know,
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Speaker 2: you know, you read something on the internet, or see
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Speaker 2: a commercial about or even go see your doctor. You're
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Speaker 2: not quite sure. Well, we are not trying to sell anything.
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Speaker 2: We're not making a buck here. We just want to
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Speaker 2: give you solid information letting you know that there's a
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Speaker 2: place for modern medicine, there's a place for lifestyle, but
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Speaker 2: at heartwise, we also want everyone to know that's that
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Speaker 2: relationship with the heavenly Father that's so important. And today
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Speaker 2: we have joined us on our program Nick Evanson, and
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Speaker 2: Nick is the development director at Heartwives Ministry. Nick, we
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Speaker 2: want to welcome you here today.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you for having me on, Doctor Markham.
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Speaker 2: Well you look pretty healthy, Nick, you know.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I try and stay active and eat
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Speaker 4: what's right and I probably need to exercise a little
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Speaker 4: bit more and eat a little bit less at times.
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Speaker 2: But so you do a lot of biking, don't you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, biking is by far my favorite exercise.
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Speaker 2: You know, that question comes in a lot about the
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Speaker 2: best exercise. You know. I'm just happy to get people
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Speaker 2: moving in general. But there seems to be on the
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Speaker 2: cardiovasclar system a great benefit for people doing what we
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Speaker 2: call interval training. You know, go up the hill six
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Speaker 2: minutes fast, go down the hill six minutes show, catch
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Speaker 2: your breath. It's set changing speeds that seems to really
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Speaker 2: help the cardiovascular system. Yeah, how often you get bike
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Speaker 2: in and get outdoors?
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Speaker 4: You know, We try and go ride bikes at least
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Speaker 4: once a week, but sometimes we get out two or
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Speaker 4: three times and we do a variety. Sometimes we're on
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Speaker 4: mountain bikes, sometimes we're on road bikes. And I find
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Speaker 4: that the interval training really does help a lot. And
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Speaker 4: it's also great activity because it's easy on my joints.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good for the joints. And you know what
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Speaker 2: an interesting story the other day I had. I worked
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Speaker 2: in the hospital yesterday and I heard this story of
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Speaker 2: a guy that's very healthy that had a condition called
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Speaker 2: Superventrickler tack of cardia, that's where his heart goes really fast. Well,
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Speaker 2: he was up on a mountain somewhere and he did
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Speaker 2: this and when you do this, your heart goes about
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Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty to two hundred and it doesn't
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Speaker 2: fill up and you lose blood pressure. You know, what
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Speaker 2: do you do in the middle of the mountain. You know,
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Speaker 2: you can't really fly in. You know, it's hard to
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Speaker 2: haul someone down the hill. So if you have health
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Speaker 2: problems in you're an athlete, you really have to do
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Speaker 2: some planning ahead.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's definitely the case.
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Speaker 2: Have you ever had anyone on our bike ride that
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Speaker 2: breaks anything or hurts anything. You know.
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Speaker 4: Actually, a couple months ago, I was out riding here
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Speaker 4: locally and we came up on somebody who had just
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Speaker 4: had a crash and had spine problems before, and she
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Speaker 4: kind of landed on her head a little bit, and
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Speaker 4: so we took real precautions with her. But there were
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Speaker 4: some people there that had some medical training as well,
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Speaker 4: and so she took it real easy and got up
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Speaker 4: slowly after being checked out, and she was okay.
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Speaker 2: Well, some of the issues I see is that, you know,
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Speaker 2: is if you do have an accident on top of mountain,
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Speaker 2: how do you get that person down? You know, is
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Speaker 2: there some type of stretch or device you can you know,
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Speaker 2: wheel them down on, because you don't want to carry
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Speaker 2: someone sick down when you're up high in the mountain.
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Speaker 2: But a couple keys. When ever you're exercise, you want
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Speaker 2: to be prepared. Make sure you're hydrated, make sure you
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Speaker 2: have good clothing. You know, the basic string rope, so
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Speaker 2: you can make things if you need, you need to
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Speaker 2: make a stretch or something. Some sheets where you can
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Speaker 2: sort of make a quick stretcher in case one of
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Speaker 2: your parties were to get sick. So all these things
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Speaker 2: were interesting. Well, anyway, this guy had this rhythm and
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Speaker 2: he passed, basically passing out, and luckily he went back
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Speaker 2: into rhythm. But if he would have stayed out of rhythm,
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Speaker 2: he could have had his blood pressure go low for
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Speaker 2: several hours. They couldn't fly a helicopter in. They'd have
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Speaker 2: to bring him down, and when you have low blood
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Speaker 2: pressure for several hours, your kidneys and other organs can
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Speaker 2: be damaged. So he was coming up with the plan.
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Speaker 2: He loves to cycle, and part of the reasons he
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Speaker 2: went into this rhythm was probably because he was overdoing it.
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Speaker 2: And you can overdo exercise. You make too much adrenaline,
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Speaker 2: especially when you're dehydrated, and too much adrenaline can sometimes
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Speaker 2: trigger these funny heart rhythms. Well, we have collected a
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Speaker 2: lot of questions that we want to get to today
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Speaker 2: on heartwise, So Nick, why don't you read us our
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Speaker 2: first question from one of our listeners.
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Speaker 4: Ye, well, you know, I know so many people these
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Speaker 4: days that are on medications for one thing or another.
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Speaker 4: And one of our viewers, one of our listeners, writes,
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Speaker 4: I take a lot of over the counter medications. Are
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Speaker 4: there any of those that could harm me?
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, Nick, I don't know if you know, but
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Speaker 2: over the counter medicines are basically medicines that anyone can buy,
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Speaker 2: and it's not only at the drug store anymore. Over
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Speaker 2: the counters can also include internet medications and any medicines
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Speaker 2: that's being passed from person to person. Sometimes we see
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Speaker 2: people borrowing medicines from other people. I see that more
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Speaker 2: than I like to. But anything you put in your
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Speaker 2: mouth could have a chemical reaction, and there's at least
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Speaker 2: two or three we really need to talk about that
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Speaker 2: could potentially be dangerous. Well have you heard of this
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Speaker 2: term metamphetamines? Okay, Well, there actually can be made from
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Speaker 2: certain things that are over the counter. These things called
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Speaker 2: a fedrin like products, and a fed is a stimulant
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Speaker 2: and it helps change the the blood vessel size and
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Speaker 2: a lot of these decongestions we see it. So look
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Speaker 2: at this and see if you see this word pseudo ephedrin.
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Speaker 2: Pseudo Ephedrin is a stimulant that can make your heart race.
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Speaker 2: We also have this chemical called e fedra in many
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Speaker 2: over the counter and diet pills. A lot of the
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Speaker 2: energy drinks that you see, they give you so much
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Speaker 2: energy and turn you around because they're basically low grade speed.
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Speaker 2: So if you can take enough of this ephedra or
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Speaker 2: enough of the energy drinks and enough of this decongestan,
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Speaker 2: you're literally giving yourself amphetamines. And amphetamines are addicting. Amphetamines
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Speaker 2: can cause dangerous heart rhythms. A lot of people put
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Speaker 2: them in weight loss medications because it helps them lose weight.
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Speaker 2: There was a picture for the Baltimore Orioles a few
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Speaker 2: years ago named Belcher, and he was taking a lot
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Speaker 2: of these pseudofedan type things and he developed a dangerous
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Speaker 2: heart rhythm and that was the cause of his death.
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Speaker 2: So these rhythms can be dangerous, especially a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: I don't say, well, if I take a little bit,
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Speaker 2: I can get away with it. So look, if you're
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Speaker 2: taking the over counters with a federan or pseudo fedin,
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Speaker 2: that is something to be very concerned abo. Now, another
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Speaker 2: one that people don't think very much about is tailanol
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Speaker 2: a ceda menifite. But the number one cause of acute
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Speaker 2: liver failure needing transplantation of a liver in the United
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Speaker 2: States is a ceed of menifine toxicity. So if you
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Speaker 2: take too much thailanol a ceed of menifin you can
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Speaker 2: actually damage your liver. Now, you have to take quite
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Speaker 2: a bit of this to damage your liver. There was
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Speaker 2: a story not too long ago about a eighteen year
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Speaker 2: old in Oklahoma that took like twenty grams. You know,
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Speaker 2: normally take five hundred, so two of those pills would
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Speaker 2: make one gram. So she took like forty of those pills.
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Speaker 2: And that amount of a set of menifin, which goes
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Speaker 2: through the liver, the liver has to digest it. It
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Speaker 2: damaged your liver sales, and she went into liver faire. Now,
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Speaker 2: she was taking this because she had a terrible headache.
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Speaker 2: You know, she wanted that headache to go away, and
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Speaker 2: she didn't know what to do, so she kept popping
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Speaker 2: the pills, popping the pills, and she didn't know that
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Speaker 2: it could potentially hurt her liver. Well, she took that much,
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Speaker 2: she went into liver failure and died. Well, the number
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Speaker 2: one cause of acute liver failure in America now is
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Speaker 2: a seed of menifine overdose. And some people take a
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Speaker 2: lot of over the counter thilanol, but they're also taking
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Speaker 2: other medications and things that go through the liver. A
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Speaker 2: lot of people don't realize that things like grapefruit juice.
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Speaker 2: Grapefruit juice goes to the liver. So if you take
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Speaker 2: a lot of grapefruit juice and maybe a cholesterol medicine
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Speaker 2: which is digestive liver, and then take a lot of
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Speaker 2: a seed of menifine, sometimes these these substances don't get
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Speaker 2: broken down and the toxins build up and they can
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Speaker 2: damage your liver cells. So that's one thing. Be careful
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Speaker 2: not to take too much tilanol. Here's a here's a
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Speaker 2: trick question for you, Nick. Do you know what the
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Speaker 2: number one cause of fatal gas to intestinal bleeding is
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Speaker 2: in the United States? The number one cause.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna guess it's related to over the counter medications
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Speaker 4: exactly right.
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Speaker 2: There's a class called non steroidal anti inflammatories. Medicines that
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Speaker 2: are in that class they relieve inflammation for arthritis. You
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Speaker 2: might have heard things like ecatrin alieve the prescription forms
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Speaker 2: of napersin well, these are non steroidals. A few famous
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Speaker 2: ones a few years ago were celebres and bios you know,
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Speaker 2: to help inflammation. Well, these anti inflammatory medicines also irritate
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Speaker 2: the linings of the stomachs and can cause GI bleeding.
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Speaker 2: The number one cause a fatal GI bleeding in the
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Speaker 2: United States was not gunshot wounds was it was caused
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Speaker 2: by non steroidal anti inflammatories irritating the stomach, causing an
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Speaker 2: acute fatal GI bleed, something that could be prevented. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and these are just three of the overcounters that are
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Speaker 2: very well known about. So you know, a phedrin, acetamenafine,
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Speaker 2: non steroidals, but there are many more that we can
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Speaker 2: talk about. So what I want everyone out there this
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Speaker 2: person ask are the things that they could be concerned about.
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Speaker 2: The answer is yes, look at the labels, see what
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Speaker 2: the active ingredients. Remember the over the counters aren't regulated.
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Speaker 2: And not only this, the things you're buying on the internet.
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Speaker 2: All of these things change your chemistry and can have
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Speaker 2: some tough interactions. We're going to be right back after
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Speaker 2: this break answering more questions, and I hope you'll learn
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Speaker 2: something about over the counters and we want you to
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Speaker 2: all stay healthy when you're out there and exercising. Nick
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Speaker 2: Evanson are going to be right back after this short break,
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Speaker 2: so stay with us on heartwise. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: Well, welcome back to Heartwise and the last question. In
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Speaker 2: the last segment, we answered questions on over the counters
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Speaker 2: and over the counter medications have to be paid attention to. Specifically,
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Speaker 2: three things we want you to remember today is remember
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Speaker 2: look for things that might have a Federan nurse pseudo fedrin,
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Speaker 2: which can hurt your cardiovascular system. Be very careful with
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Speaker 2: not taking too much a seat of menefit or tile
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Speaker 2: and all. And if you take non steroidal anti inflammatories
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Speaker 2: for aches and pains, be careful to make sure you're
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Speaker 2: not bleeding. So Nick, that's you know, a lot of
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Speaker 2: people don't realize these over the counters. Let's let's move
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Speaker 2: on to another question from our Heartwivesministries dot org website.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this next question I can relate to. You know,
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Speaker 4: I try and eat well and I try and exercise
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Speaker 4: and ride my bike so that I don't get overweight. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: but there's a lot of new weight loss medications that
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Speaker 4: have been released recently. Could you talk about a few
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Speaker 4: of these and what is your opinion on this?
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Speaker 2: Well, that's a question we get a lot from heartwise ministries.
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Speaker 2: And if you think about it, right now, sixty percent
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Speaker 2: of the country are overweight, thirty percent are obese. All
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Speaker 2: the stress of this system, them called the indo cannabinoid system,
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Speaker 2: makes a bunch of chemicals that damage your body. Damage
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Speaker 2: is a body, then we need medicines, et cetera et cetera.
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Speaker 2: So if we can get at the root cause, we're
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Speaker 2: going to be successful. If you look at the ways
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Speaker 2: to lose weight out there, we have gastric bypass surgery
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Speaker 2: where they bypassed your stomach and make it small like
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Speaker 2: a pouch, so you can't eat very much. We have
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Speaker 2: a procedure where they you know, where they put bands
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Speaker 2: around the esophagus. Okay, banning procedures. And then we have
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Speaker 2: all the medicines. And I've been around for a few
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Speaker 2: years now, Nick, and the medicines that we've had, We've
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Speaker 2: had things like fin Fin. A lot of people have
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Speaker 2: heard about that fin Fin. They had to take off
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Speaker 2: the market because it was causing heart valve problems. Okay.
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Speaker 2: Then came along another weight loss medication called Meridian that
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Speaker 2: again had to be take off the market, you know.
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Speaker 2: And all these medications sped up the metabolism. A lot
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Speaker 2: of them have thyroid medications, which again speed up metabolism.
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Speaker 2: A lot of these weight loss have the fed like
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Speaker 2: we talked about, what speeds up the metabolism. These medicines
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Speaker 2: do help you lose weight in the short term, okay,
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Speaker 2: but they also cause damage and there's some risk. There's
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Speaker 2: three new medications that are currently about ready to be released,
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Speaker 2: and people are going to start taking them as miracle
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Speaker 2: drugs to help them lose weight. But if you look
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Speaker 2: back over the track record of weight loss medications, none
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Speaker 2: of them have stayed on the market long. Many of
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Speaker 2: them have actually killed people. So these medications much must
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Speaker 2: be evaluated very very carefully. I don't think they're a
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Speaker 2: medicine that you're going to want to take the rest
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Speaker 2: of your life. I think that you know they're not
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Speaker 2: something you're going to want to do. So what we
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Speaker 2: try to do as a ministry is we try to
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Speaker 2: promote a healthy way to lose weight. You know, we
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Speaker 2: try to empower people with making changes one at a time,
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Speaker 2: developing a relationship with God that can give you the
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Speaker 2: power to help you overcome some of these habits that
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Speaker 2: we all have. Maybe get out there and start exercising,
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Speaker 2: might be one or two minutes a day, and then
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Speaker 2: increase it. It might be eating a little bit healthier,
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Speaker 2: eating more fresh, less big at night. So we promote
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Speaker 2: a more eat less, exercise, more relationship things. We recognize
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Speaker 2: that people are doing these things, but people must know
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Speaker 2: that for everything you put in your body, ask yourself.
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Speaker 2: Is this something I'm going to do the rest of
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Speaker 2: my life to keep weight off? And is it worth
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Speaker 2: the risk? So those are some things I would do
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Speaker 2: so right now, I'm very suspected of these new weight
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Speaker 2: loss pills. I don't recommend them. I want people to
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Speaker 2: try to do it naturally if they can. Why take
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Speaker 2: a risk of a medicine that we don't know a
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Speaker 2: lot about. But you watch, thousands and thousands will flock
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Speaker 2: to these medications, just like they did the fin Fin
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Speaker 2: and Meridian some of the other ones, but none of
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Speaker 2: them prove to be around a long time.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So what I'm hearing you say is that we
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Speaker 4: need to maybe take the route that's not the easiest
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Speaker 4: and do the work rather than just taking a pill
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Speaker 4: for it.
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Speaker 2: Right. And you know, if you think about it, you
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Speaker 2: know that's going to be long term, it's going to
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Speaker 2: be less risk, it's going to take care of our body,
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Speaker 2: and along the line, I think it's going to give
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Speaker 2: us a chance to develop a relationship with a great
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Speaker 2: physician that can help us each day of our lives.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's sort of the long term fix.
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Speaker 2: If you think about.
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Speaker 3: It, it sounds like some good advice.
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Speaker 2: OK, let's move on to another question.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so this listener says, I am having a hard
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Speaker 4: time sleeping. Which sleeping medication do you recommend?
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's a great question. Sleep problems are a major
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Speaker 2: issue in the United States. Lots of people can't sleep.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know if we had this two hundred
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Speaker 2: three hundred years ago, but you just didn't hear about
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Speaker 2: sleeping medications back in the seventeen hundreds with George Washington.
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Speaker 2: You just didn't hear about that that much. Unfortunately, Thomas
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Speaker 2: Edison invented the light bulb, and then we had television
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Speaker 2: and radio and internet and a lot of stimulants that
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Speaker 2: kept us on. So when someone comes to me with
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Speaker 2: the sleep problem, I tell them first of all that
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Speaker 2: sleep is very very important. It's important treatment for the
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Speaker 2: body to get good sleep, to get good rest. The
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Speaker 2: next thing I say is, well, you know, if you're
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Speaker 2: not sleeping well, rather than take a pill, which really
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Speaker 2: doesn't help you sleep better, just knocks you out, you
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Speaker 2: don't get into that good sleep. It just through the
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Speaker 2: like knockout pills. They've only been approved for short periods
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Speaker 2: of time, not forever and ever, and they actually affect
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Speaker 2: the cognitive ability that you have, the way you think
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Speaker 2: nick you know, you want to think good and this
18:16
Speaker 2: they sort of clouds you up. And occasionally you hear
18:19
Speaker 2: a story about someone that takes an ambient and they
18:22
Speaker 2: get g looney tunes. One guy that took it and
18:24
Speaker 2: took off all his clothes are walking the Middle Street.
18:26
Speaker 2: It does affect the way your brain thinks, and you
18:29
Speaker 2: never know what you can do. We heard a story
18:31
Speaker 2: of a guy at the Republican National Convention or someone
18:34
Speaker 2: around there that he actually he took some pills and
18:37
Speaker 2: did some crazy things too. They thought he was getting sick.
18:39
Speaker 2: I think that was Tom Brocall recently that did something
18:41
Speaker 2: like that. But anyway, so I asked people, well, let's
18:44
Speaker 2: find out why you don't sleep, well, what's affecting the
18:47
Speaker 2: sleep centers of your brain? And the big items are
18:49
Speaker 2: this one is there's a condition called sleep atnute. You
18:53
Speaker 2: don't get enough oxygen that can affect your sleep because
18:55
Speaker 2: you have alarms going off. You make adrenaline that wakes
18:58
Speaker 2: you up because your oxygen go low. So if you
18:59
Speaker 2: have sleep out and you get that treated stimulants during
19:03
Speaker 2: the day. Caffeine is a stimulant. Alcohol can effect as
19:07
Speaker 2: a stimulant. I had one person that came to me
19:09
Speaker 2: didn't sleep good and was taking crack cocaine. As soon
19:12
Speaker 2: as they stopped the crack cocaine, everything got better. Yeah,
19:15
Speaker 2: I bet you know. But the one we see a
19:16
Speaker 2: lot of is caffeine. So some people, the caffeine really
19:19
Speaker 2: acts as a stimulant. They can't go to sleep. Another
19:22
Speaker 2: thing is eating big at night, again, another stimulant. It
19:26
Speaker 2: forces you to digest. When you're digesting, your body's working
19:29
Speaker 2: on that. You can't rest. Another thing that causes us
19:33
Speaker 2: not to sleep well, believe it or not, is television.
19:36
Speaker 2: Television stimulates guess what, your brain when your brain's overly stimulated,
19:41
Speaker 2: and some people the sleep centers don't work well. You
19:44
Speaker 2: can't go to sleep. Your brain's working on that last
19:46
Speaker 2: scene you saw, whether it be a good scene or
19:49
Speaker 2: a bad scene, you can't work on that very well.
19:52
Speaker 2: So we've seen a lot of the sleep problems develop
19:55
Speaker 2: as societies developed, and unfortunately, rather than to get at
19:58
Speaker 2: the cause of the problem, guess what, let's make another pill,
20:02
Speaker 2: and then the pill can create its own problems. You know,
20:04
Speaker 2: people they're drowsing in the morning, they not thinking good,
20:07
Speaker 2: So guess what another pill will get them going, you know,
20:09
Speaker 2: so they never get at the cause. And if they
20:11
Speaker 2: don't get at the cause, sooner or later, the problems
20:13
Speaker 2: develops and over and over. So what I encourage people,
20:15
Speaker 2: if you have a sleep problem, look at the cause.
20:18
Speaker 2: Could it be a stimulant. Are you not exercising enough
20:20
Speaker 2: at night but before you go to bed? Or is
20:23
Speaker 2: it something related to television? Are you eating big at night?
20:27
Speaker 2: One of these things to do. And then there's lots
20:29
Speaker 2: of other natural things that we can do to help,
20:31
Speaker 2: including listening to nice soothing music. Some people like to
20:35
Speaker 2: listen to the ocean, of course, relaxing, reading scriptures very good,
20:40
Speaker 2: taking a nice walk, taking deep breaths can help a
20:43
Speaker 2: body relax so it can go to sleep. And removing
20:45
Speaker 2: all these stimulants. And if you practice these things before long,
20:49
Speaker 2: people are sleeping better. So that's the way I would go,
20:52
Speaker 2: rather than go right to the sleeping pill. Now, some
20:55
Speaker 2: people do need a sleeping pill, but it's in the very,
20:58
Speaker 2: very minority.
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Speaker 4: I can kind of relate to this question because sometimes
21:02
Speaker 4: I'll be up and you know, whether I'm watching a
21:03
Speaker 4: television program or maybe maybe I'm on the internet, maybe
21:06
Speaker 4: I've got my iPad and I'm doing some research, looking
21:09
Speaker 4: at some stuff, maybe a new bike or a camera
21:11
Speaker 4: or something, and then my mind stimulates my mind. I
21:14
Speaker 4: just sit there and land bend. I'm thinking about what
21:15
Speaker 4: I was just reading on the internet, and I just
21:17
Speaker 4: you know, it's not.
21:18
Speaker 2: Helpful, over and over and over in your brain, and
21:21
Speaker 2: that that that way, you just don't get it to rest.
21:24
Speaker 2: And also, if you're a student out there and studying that,
21:26
Speaker 2: you know, if you study way ahead of time, you
21:28
Speaker 2: put it in your long term memory breaks. If you
21:31
Speaker 2: just do it cram the night before, it's in the
21:33
Speaker 2: short term memory breaks. So you might be able to
21:35
Speaker 2: remember it the next day, but the next week you
21:37
Speaker 2: might not be able to remember. So I hope that
21:39
Speaker 2: answered their question. I think we have time for one
21:41
Speaker 2: more question today. Yeah.
21:42
Speaker 3: Yeah.
21:43
Speaker 4: Our last question today comes from a listener who says,
21:45
Speaker 4: I seem to have many bad health habits. Intellectually, I
21:49
Speaker 4: know what I should be doing, but there is a
21:51
Speaker 4: disconnect with my body.
21:53
Speaker 2: Any suggestions, Well, I wonder if anyone else out there
21:56
Speaker 2: has that same problem. You know what, Nick, I think
21:59
Speaker 2: that's a very good question. By on that listener, and
22:02
Speaker 2: I hope they're listening today because you know, a lot
22:04
Speaker 2: of people share in that. Intellectually we know what we
22:07
Speaker 2: should be doing. A lot of people can will themselves
22:10
Speaker 2: into good health. But if you think about it, when
22:13
Speaker 2: you will yourself into doing it just for yourself, you're
22:17
Speaker 2: being selfish about it, so you're not really accomplishing a
22:20
Speaker 2: whole lot of good. But what I try to tell
22:22
Speaker 2: people is, you know, it's God that gives us the
22:25
Speaker 2: power to change, and everyone changes at different speeds, and
22:30
Speaker 2: they shouldn't get down on themselves, you know, just really
22:33
Speaker 2: focus on that relationship with God that gives us the
22:35
Speaker 2: power to see what we need to do and to
22:37
Speaker 2: give us the power to do it. And then once
22:39
Speaker 2: we see that God's working with us, pick one thing
22:43
Speaker 2: that you can do well and stick with it health wise,
22:46
Speaker 2: you know. And it might be not eating big at night,
22:49
Speaker 2: or cutting back on caffeine, or even cutting back on this.
22:53
Speaker 2: And as you do one things at a time and
22:54
Speaker 2: you stay with God, he will be faithful to help
22:58
Speaker 2: you with the next step. And He's going to Now
23:00
Speaker 2: we might not ever be perfect, but we will also
23:03
Speaker 2: have the ability to change things one in time and
23:05
Speaker 2: when we do this, we start feeling better, our chemistry
23:08
Speaker 2: gets better, we realize that we have a God that
23:11
Speaker 2: loves us and wants to help us. Then maybe we
23:13
Speaker 2: won't need some of these sleeping pills we've talked about. Well,
23:17
Speaker 2: maybe rest better. Then maybe we won't need some of
23:19
Speaker 2: these other pills that we think we need for over
23:22
Speaker 2: the counter things, because we're getting our chemistry back in order.
23:25
Speaker 2: So I want to tell people, you know, if you
23:27
Speaker 2: want to get back in the health, get back into
23:29
Speaker 2: a relationship with the heavenly Father that gives you the power. Well,
23:33
Speaker 2: we hope you've learned one or two, one or two
23:36
Speaker 2: or three things today on Heartwise. We invite you to
23:38
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23:42
Speaker 2: would be happy to answer your questions live on our program.
23:46
Speaker 2: So stay with us each week and God bless you.
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