Participants: Zeno Charles - Marcel, Don Mackintosh
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000077
00:45 Hello and welcome to "Health for a Lifetime"
00:46 I'm your host Don Mackintosh 00:48 and today I'm delighted to have Dr. Zeno Charles-Marcel 00:51 with us... Welcome doctor! Thank you very much, Don 00:54 Now, I know that you're a doctor of internal medicine 00:57 which means that you just treat 00:59 diseases, not with surgical means, but you're a 01:02 medical doctor; you've worked in ICU, CCU, 01:05 all different types of intensive situations... Yes 01:07 But now, you're kind of focusing more on 01:09 "PREVENTIVE MEDICINE" 01:11 Yes, and lifestyle approaches to 01:14 treating diseases and preventing diseases. 01:16 What are some of the things that you see a lot of? 01:18 We see a lot of people with diabetes, heart disease, 01:22 high blood pressure, people who are overweight 01:24 and challenged by that, people with arthritis... 01:27 But the most of all focus at the Lifestyle Center 01:30 is on the first 4 things that I mentioned, 01:33 the diabetes in particular, along with heart disease, 01:36 high blood pressure and overweight. 01:39 Okay, if you are interested in getting in touch with 01:42 The Lifestyle Center of America, 01:43 or with Dr. Zeno Charles-Marcel 01:45 and the others on the staff there, 01:48 let me give you a web page that you can think of or remember. 01:52 It's very easy to remember, it's 01:53 www. lifestylecenter. org 02:01 And you can call about most of the information 02:04 about the Center on that, can't you? Yes 02:06 And then also, people can contact us here at 3ABN, 02:11 and we can let them know how to get in touch with you. 02:13 We want to talk today about what you've entitled... 02:16 "sweet-blood, sour-deal" What's that all about? 02:20 Well, part of the problem with diabetes is that 02:24 if you were to TASTE the blood or the urine of somebody with 02:29 HIGH blood sugar, hyperglycemia, it would be sweet. 02:33 It would be sweeter than it should be... however 02:36 I don't think we want to taste 02:37 the blood. No, we're not going to do that. 02:39 Didn't they used to taste their urine... 02:40 They used to taste urine in the past, that's correct. 02:42 See, a doctor's job has gotten a lot easier, hasn't it? 02:44 I would say so, in that respect! 02:47 At least a little bit more sanitary, right? 02:49 Okay, so with diabetes then there's too much sugar 02:53 then being spilled into the urine and too much in the blood. 02:55 Too much sugar in the blood and this is a sour deal, 02:58 because it affects just about 02:59 EVERY organ and every system in the body. 03:01 Let's just define then... 03:03 We've kind of defined already, 03:04 but what exactly is dia-betes? What does that mean? 03:08 Well, the old term "diabetes" came into existence because 03:13 first and foremost, diabetes means "siphon" 03:16 "mellitus" the whole word is "diabetes mellitus" 03:19 "mellitus" means honey-like. 03:21 So it was because the urine was sweet and because the 03:25 bees would go after urine from people who had diabetes, 03:28 it got that name. 03:30 "Siphon" of course, because the person would eat and drink 03:34 more than usual and they would 03:37 go the bathroom and urinate much more than usual as well. 03:39 So it was as if things were coming in, 03:43 and passing out like a siphon. 03:44 Polydipsia, polyuria, and polyphasia... 03:47 Yes, those are the "Greek" terms if you will... 3 P's - Right! 03:53 So diabetes then - are people really familiar with what it is 03:59 since it's a BIG killer in America? 04:01 Well you know, interestingly, we have some people who are 04:05 very knowledgeable about diabetes, 04:06 but we have also a large number 04:08 of people who are very unfamiliar. 04:11 They don't know very much about it; 04:12 they're just afraid of it. 04:13 I had one patient, not a patient actually, a person call up 04:18 at the center, desiring information, 04:21 and the person insisted that they talk to me about this 04:24 very important issue. 04:27 In trying to get at what the person's concern was, 04:30 she had a good friend who would carpool with them 04:36 ...that carpooled together, 04:37 and the friend recently had gotten the diagnosis of diabetes 04:45 This lady who was calling, had not seen her friend 04:48 in 6 weeks - she had avoided her for 6 weeks 04:50 because she was unsure as to whether this diabetes 04:54 could be passed on to her where there was a contagious disease. 04:58 Now this is probably the most 04:59 extreme question that I have received in a long time, 05:03 but what it says to me is that there are many people who 05:07 even if they have exposure to 05:10 people or friends or family members with diabetes, 05:12 may not know very much about it at all. 05:14 Right! So it's not an infectious contagious disease. It is not! 05:17 It's a disease that has to do with what we DO... 05:20 I mean, you can catch some habits that 05:22 ultimately could lead to it, 05:23 but it's not something you can get by someone 05:26 who has sneezed on you or something like that. Right 05:28 Now there's not only one kind 05:30 of diabetes, I ought to put that in here... 05:33 There are 2 major kinds; #1, we call type 1, 05:37 and the other one type 2. 05:38 Type 1 is the kind that is encountered most frequently 05:43 in folks who are younger, that is less than age 40. 05:47 It's usually associated with the obligatory use of insulin. 05:51 Whereas, type 2 diabetes tends to be in people who 05:56 are over age 45 and who, at the beginning 06:00 of their illness at least, don't need insulin at all. 06:03 Many of them are actually producing too much insulin, 06:05 and they're overweight! 06:07 Now what I hear is that with 06:09 even type 1, there's good news today. 06:11 I heard recently of a study that says, 06:13 they can go into the pancreas and actually put 06:16 new cells in there that can produce insulin - is that true? 06:18 That's not exactly the way you described it. 06:21 But they can harvest cells from cadavers, 06:24 that's people who have died, 06:26 take those cells out and inject them into people with 06:29 type 1 diabetes and they can set up a new population 06:35 of insulin-producing cells in that person 06:38 and use... Is it still experimental? 06:40 Well, it's not really experimental in the sense that 06:43 we've been doing this kind of thing now for several years. 06:46 But recently there was a breakthrough... 06:48 #1, in the harvesting technique 06:50 and the second, was that we're 06:52 now using antirejection medications 06:56 that are not steroids. 06:57 You see the steroids, themselves, 07:00 have a lot of side effects, 07:01 and one of the side effects of the steroids is 07:03 increasing the blood sugar. 07:04 So we're doing better with regard to 07:09 the techniques for harvesting, techniques for reimplantation 07:14 and techniques and medications 07:16 for putting the immune system at rest. 07:22 We have treatments after it happens but the best thing 07:24 by far is to avoid it if at all possible. 07:27 If at all possible and type 2 diabetes 07:30 is largely a preventable disease. 07:32 About 95% of the people who have diabetes 07:35 have type 2 diabetes. 07:37 There is a genetic component, 07:39 but the genes appear to just load the gun, so-to-speak. 07:44 How we live is what pulls the trigger. 07:48 But what about like say even type 1... 07:50 Let's say that you are a mother, you're carrying a child, 07:52 how can you make sure that your children don't get diabetes 07:55 or have diabetes? 07:57 Is it a large problem with children, 07:59 and how can we help them avoid even beginning life with it? 08:02 Well one of the things that we recognize is that 08:06 there is this genetic component for type 1 diabetes, 08:09 but there are some factors that predispose 08:13 a child who has the genetic tendency to GET type 1 diabetes. 08:19 There are some infections from viruses such as the mumps virus, 08:22 or Coxsackie virus which is another virus... 08:26 These 2 infections actually have been associated with 08:29 an increased risk of type 1 diabetes. 08:32 Additionally, there was 1 study very recently that showed 08:35 early vaccinations with hepatitis B vaccine 08:38 may be associated with development of type 1 diabetes. 08:42 So careful about when you get this. 08:44 ...About when you get the vaccination. 08:45 Additionally, we have the connection between 08:49 type 1 diabetes and cow's milk consumption. 08:53 In this association, what we find is that there is, 08:58 epidemiologically... that's if you look at populations, 09:00 there is an association between the use of cow's milk 09:04 and the development of type 1 diabetes... 09:06 And the individuals with the type 1 diabetes 09:08 seem to have antibodies against one of the cow's milk proteins. 09:15 Fights against their own pancreas... Yes 09:18 So, there are things we can do before children are even born, 09:21 and certainly afterwards in terms of this area 09:23 of cow's milk and different things. Yes 09:25 Okay, then let's say though we have developed it... 09:28 Let's say that early-on in age, someone develops it 09:33 and it's type 2 we're talking about now, if that's the case... 09:36 What can we do... well maybe this is the way to put it - 09:39 What are other risk factors that have to do with diabetes? 09:43 For type 2 diabetes, the risk factors include: 09:45 Your age - if you are over 45, you have an increased risk. 09:49 There you are! 09:52 I'm no where even near that! 09:53 If you're overweight, you have an increased risk. 09:56 If you have high blood pressure, you have an increased risk. 09:58 If you have a first degree family member... 10:00 that is mother, father, sister brother, 10:03 if they have type 2 diabetes, then you have 10:04 an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. 10:06 Goes to uncles and aunts? Yes it does, 10:08 but that association is less strong than the 10:11 first degree family member. 10:13 Additionally, for a woman, if she had diabetes while she was 10:17 pregnant, she has increased risk of developing 10:20 diabetes later on and the child apparently has an 10:22 increased risk of developing diabetes during its life. 10:25 Gestational diabetes, so-called. 10:26 Gestational diabetes for the mother. 10:28 But it doesn't even have to be gestational diabetes per se 10:31 in that if the mother, while she was pregnant, 10:34 actually when she delivered, the baby was over 9 pounds, 10:38 she has an increased risk of developing diabetes, 10:41 and the child probably has an increased risk as well. 10:43 So the weight of the baby at the time of birth, 10:47 over 9 pounds, is an indicator that the mother 10:50 would have increased risk later on. 10:52 So mothers shouldn't be out there eating anything 10:54 they want to eat and feeding their sweet-tooth. 10:57 That's correct... because if what it means is that they 11:01 push themselves over the edge if they have a predilection to 11:04 developing diabetes in the first place, 11:06 and the extra weight and other factors push them over the edge 11:10 such that their blood sugar goes up during pregnancy, 11:12 well, this would not be a good thing for the 11:15 mother or for the baby. 11:18 Other risk factors? 11:19 Those are about the major ones. 11:21 People who smoke have an increased risk of 11:23 insulin resistance. 11:24 We mentioned being overweight, 11:26 and, of course, there are some ethnic factors. 11:28 There's this problem or this process of insulin resistance 11:33 that our genes and our ethnicity seem to carry. 11:37 The people of Native American descent, 11:41 or if you have Native American blood, in this country 11:43 you probably have the highest 11:45 risk of having insulin resistance. 11:47 But then, that is followed by people of Hispanic origin 11:51 regardless of what race they might be... 11:53 and then that's followed by people of African origin, 11:56 and then Asian-Pacific and Asian-Island, 12:01 as they have the next highest risk, 12:03 followed by people of European ancestry. 12:06 Oh, so this is for insulin resistance... 12:08 It's not that the body is not MAKING insulin, 12:10 but that it just can't get in the cell. 12:12 Well, the body is making insulin... you're right, 12:15 but you need more insulin to produce the same effect 12:19 if you are insulin-resistant than if you were normal. 12:24 Okay, so it does really 12:25 Okay, so it does really matter who you are. 12:26 Now, diabetes, is it a real BAD disease? 12:29 What does it do to your system? 12:30 What does it do to your body? 12:31 What does it do to your organs? 12:33 What does it do to your... 12:34 In a nutshell, people with diabetes AGE a lot faster 12:38 than someone without diabetes. 12:40 So ALL of the degenerative processes that you can think of 12:44 are probably going to be affected by the fact that 12:48 you have high sugar in your blood and diabetes. WHY? 12:51 Part of it is related to what we call... 12:53 "glycosylation end products" 12:55 Now, I know you... Glycosylation end products! 12:58 I'm going to use that now every time I go out. 13:02 The thing is... the sugar attaches to our proteins, 13:06 and it causes the proteins to not have the same flexibility 13:09 and the same ability that the proteins otherwise would. 13:12 THAT causes premature aging of just about every tissue. 13:16 So if it affects the eyes, for instance, 13:18 we have an increased risk of what we call retinopathy 13:21 or we also have an increased risk of cataract formation... 13:25 by different mechanisms by the way, 13:27 and we also have an increased risk of having glaucoma... 13:31 all of which are related to the fact that you have diabetes. 13:34 It can affect the nervous system; 13:36 you can end up with peripheral neuropathy... 13:39 Where you can't feel things, touch things... Where you can't 13:40 feel things or you have pain in the legs, 13:42 or numbness, tingling. 13:43 It can affect the feet, the hands; 13:45 it can affect one side of the body; 13:47 it can affect the abdomen, 13:48 as well as it can affect the internal organs 13:51 such as the heart and the gastrointestinal tract. 13:54 Does it do anything to your mind? 13:55 There is a process that we call "diabetic dementia" 14:00 People who have had poorly controlled blood sugars 14:03 over a period of time, they can end up with 14:05 dementing illnesses much like Alzheimer disease. 14:08 Also in people who are prone to having frequent bouts of 14:11 hypoglycemia. 14:12 If the blood sugar stays too low for too long, 14:15 these individuals can end up 14:17 with some irreversible brain damage. 14:20 We're talking with Dr. Zeno Charles-Marcel 14:23 We're talking about diabetes. 14:24 If you have it or know someone that does, 14:26 you might want to give them a call 14:27 and have them tune in when we come back. 14:31 Have you found yourself wishing that you could 14:33 shed a few pounds? 14:34 Have you been on a diet for most of your life, 14:36 but not found anything that will really keep the weight off 14:39 If you've answered "yes" to any of these questions, 14:42 then we have a solution for you that works! 14:45 Dr. Hans Diehl and Dr. Aileen Ludington 14:48 have written a marvelous booklet called... 14:50 "Reversing Obesity Naturally" 14:52 and we'd like to send it to you FREE of charge. 14:55 Here's a medically sound approach successfully used 14:58 by thousands who are able to eat more and lose weight 15:01 permanently without feeling guilty or hungry 15:04 through lifestyle medicine. 15:05 Dr. Diehl and Dr. Ludington have been featured on 3ABN, 15:09 and in this booklet, they present a sensible approach 15:12 to eating, nutrition and lifestyle changes 15:15 than can help you prevent heart disease, diabetes 15:17 and EVEN cancer. 15:18 Call or write today for your free copy of... 15:21 "Reversing Obesity Naturally" 15:22 and you could be on your way to a healthier, happier YOU! 15:26 It's ABSOLUTELY free of charge, so call or write today. 15:32 Welcome back! We've been talking with 15:33 Dr. Zeno Charles-Marcel 15:35 We've been talking about sweet blood but a sour deal... 15:39 But we want to talk about some 15:40 good news about diabetes now, don't we? How to treat it. 15:43 You know, you work at The Lifestyle Center of America; 15:47 you are a specialist in internal medicine; 15:49 deal with diabetics a lot; 15:50 you've written papers and done research 15:53 in the area of syndrome X 15:55 ...That's the diabetes plus all these other diseases 15:58 and how they come together to really cause a real bad problem. 16:01 "X" marks the spot kind of a bad problem. 16:04 But you know, now that we get into the situation of 16:06 type 2 diabetes - let's leave type 1 alone for a while... 16:09 What do you do to treat that where you now are there 16:12 at the Lifestyle Center, what's your protocol? 16:15 How can people have hope that have that disease? 16:18 Well, you know, the approach that we use at the 16:20 Lifestyle Center is really an approach that ANYBODY can use 16:25 at home; physicians can use in their office, 16:29 or you can apply it in a hospital 16:31 or lifestyle centers like ours. 16:34 So this is not something that is proprietary to us. 16:36 It's something that is available to anybody to be able to use. 16:39 We start off looking at first things first. 16:42 To understand and treat any chronic disease, 16:44 you need to pay attention to the fact that what you eat, 16:49 what you do, what you take are all important. 16:54 So the eating has to do with food, 16:55 the doing has to do with physical activity and exercise, 16:58 taking has to do with everything from supplements 17:01 to herbs to medications, etcetera, the whole picture. 17:05 And these things intersect in a very important part... 17:09 Okay, all of them intersect in the center on who you are. 17:13 Because if I were to show you the BEST diet, 17:17 the BEST things to eat, the RIGHT quantities, 17:20 everything like that, and I were to show you 17:23 the BEST exercise program and give you all the 17:25 information and all the equipment and all that stuff, 17:28 and have a personal trainer with you 24 hours a day... 17:30 And give you the BEST herbs vitamins, minerals, 17:34 you know, all that stuff... 17:35 But you don't want to do it, you don't want to take it, 17:38 you don't want to go along with the program, guess what? 17:40 It doesn't matter, it's not going to do you any good. 17:43 You can lead a horse to water but you CANNOT make him drink! 17:49 So basically, people when they understand 17:53 that what we're dealing with is changing your lifestyle 17:56 and have the lifestyle IMPACT the disease, 17:59 and whether you're going to have the complications of 18:01 the disease, the light bulb goes off and they say, 18:04 "Ah ha, NOW I understand. " 18:06 Because it's not just like taking a pill to put a band aid 18:09 over a cut... Or a shot to take care of the problem. 18:13 It's HOW you live that's going to determine, to a large extent, 18:16 particularly when we find people who are 18:18 early in the course of their disease, 18:20 or who are at the brink of kind of going over the fence 18:24 to full-blown diabetes, then these individuals 18:27 are MOST able to be helped with their lifestyle 18:29 even though EVERYBODY with diabetes, including 18:32 type 1 diabetes, can be helped by changing their lifestyle. 18:35 Now, a very important component is, of course, the food aspect. 18:39 Here are some of the issues with regard to food... 18:42 First and foremost, carbohydrates, 18:45 despite the hype that we might read from time to time 18:48 that carbohydrates are a bad thing for people with diabetes 18:53 and for people with weight problems and so on... 18:55 This is really not fully the case. 18:58 While people can be helped by 18:59 other kinds of dietary programs, 19:01 having a diet that is rich in fiber, 19:07 rich in complex carbohydrates. 19:10 This IS actually the mainstay of the treatment of diabetes, 19:14 and it allows for such things to occur as people taking 19:19 LOTS and LOTS of insulin, large doses of insulin, 19:22 100, 200, 300 units of insulin a day 19:24 coming down to ZERO units of insulin a day 19:28 with BETTER blood sugar control 19:30 by just making some little changes in this area. 19:32 So complex carbohydrates - what would those be? 19:34 If I have a choice between 19:36 apples and apple juice, which should I have? 19:37 Well, you should have the whole apple! 19:39 The way I put it, is when it comes to fruits, 19:42 fruits are GOOD. 19:43 Some people are more sensitive to 19:45 one kind of fruit or another, 19:46 but if you're looking at fruits, concentrated fruits, 19:50 fruit juices, etcetera, the rule of thumb is the fruit, 19:53 the whole fruit and nothing but the fruit! 19:56 That works out best! 19:57 The fruit, the whole fruit and nothing but the fruit! 19:59 Okay, so in other words, because if it's a liquid form 20:02 or whatever, it drives the blood sugar up higher... 20:06 And even if the person responds appropriately, 20:09 and produces a good output of insulin, 20:11 then they tend to go LOWER than they should, 20:15 and the person gets hungry and they want to eat more. 20:18 So the issue of food is a very important one with diabetes. 20:21 The one issue is, of course, the carbohydrate content. 20:24 The other major issue is actually the content of FAT. 20:28 If people have a lot of saturated fat in their diet, 20:31 they are increasing their own resistance to insulin. 20:36 How does that work? 20:37 How it works is - essentially think of the fat as 20:40 clogging up the works inside the cell. 20:42 Now, scientists around the world are actually 20:44 looking at what these mechanisms are... 20:46 How does saturated fat actually do this? 20:48 And, we have some exciting lines of inquiry going on... 20:53 But suffice it to say, most people don't need to 20:55 know all of the details of how this works. 20:58 They need to know that sat-fat is BAD-fat. 21:01 Sat-fat is BAD-fat! See how easy that is? 21:04 The whole fruit and nothing but the fruit. 21:07 Right, the fruit, the whole fruit and nothing but the fruit 21:09 And sat-fat is bad-fat. That's right! 21:10 Simple things! 21:11 Moving along to cholesterol... 21:15 You see, most people with diabetes end up dying 21:19 not because of the high blood sugar... 21:21 They end up dying because of cardiovascular complications. 21:24 They end up with a heart attack or stroke, 21:26 or some combination of these things. 21:27 Because ALL their arteries and vessels are shot. Exactly! 21:30 SO, we want to be able to 21:32 PREVENT some of the complications, 21:34 some of the vascular complications of diabetes. 21:37 So, we would want to limit the amount of 21:40 cholesterol and certainly the amount of 21:41 oxidized cholesterol that the person would get. 21:43 But doctor, this sounds no fun. 21:45 What about all my good foods I like to eat? 21:46 Well, we have to look at what you're calling good foods. 21:49 Because, we have been sold a bill of goods, so-to-speak, 21:54 and it's that sweet-blood sour-deal 21:57 We've been sold a bill of goods... 21:58 If you were to ask someone what are the "goodies" 22:02 that they eat, they'll tell you all of the things 22:04 that actually cause a lot of disease and actually 22:07 produce a lot of suffering in 22:09 the United States and around the world. 22:11 We call them "goodies" 22:13 Well, no, really they should be BADDIES! 22:16 These baddies such as the high sugar, the high saturated fat, 22:20 the high cholesterol, the rich calorie-laden empty foods... 22:26 Well these things AREN'T any good for us. 22:29 Now, does that mean that the way you eat to be healthy, 22:34 needs to be tasteless and joyless? 22:36 The answer is ABSOLUTELY NOT! 22:38 You know, what we have found at the Lifestyle Center, 22:41 and what people know from just their existence... 22:44 if the food doesn't look good, 22:45 if it doesn't taste good, if it doesn't smell good, 22:47 if it doesn't seem as if it's going to be good... 22:49 Probably is not good... 22:51 Probably is not good, people are not going to eat it. 22:53 So, a wide variety of fruits, grains, vegetables, 22:57 legumes and nuts, WELL-PREPARED... 23:00 some raw, some cooked, some prepared in various fashions... 23:03 These things actually present to the individual the BEST choice 23:09 in terms of food and nutrition for the treatment 23:12 of diabetes and for the prevention of diabetes 23:15 and also for the prevention of the complications of diabetes. 23:18 SO, you give them cookbooks, you give them different things 23:21 that they can use there. That's correct 23:23 And you show them how to do it? We show them how to do them. 23:25 We have a cooking school, cooking classes that 23:28 are conducted 5 days a week 23:30 while they are there. What if they can't get there? 23:32 What if they have... 23:34 Well you know, around the country various organizations 23:37 and various people have cooking schools that they 23:40 might put on either in public buildings or at churches 23:44 and synagogues around the country that teach people 23:47 how to prepare meals for people with diabetes. 23:49 Now here's the thing, there IS no "diabetic diet" 23:54 REALLY, a person with diabetes needs to have a GOOD diet 23:59 and that same good wholesome diet is actually 24:03 the same good wholesome diet for ANY and EVERYBODY. 24:06 So there's only one right answer. That's correct! 24:09 And that's food as grown. Foods as grown... 24:12 You see, you have the whole system... 24:15 If it doesn't grow on a tree, 24:16 you have to come up with a better answer. Right? 24:19 The refined foods tend to cause the blood sugar to go HIGHER 24:25 than the foods the way God made them. 24:31 I have a long family history of diabetes in my family, 24:35 none in my nuclear family, but my uncles, great uncles, 24:39 and grandfather and different things on one side, 24:42 that family seems to have a lot. 24:44 Some of my relatives and some others I've met before, 24:47 they are not out of the ordinary, 24:50 have actually said, "Well, I don't even want to KNOW 24:52 whether or not I have it and they just don't even... 24:54 they act like they don't have it 24:57 regardless of if they do or don't. 24:58 Is this a good idea or a plan or why not? 25:01 That's not a good plan. 25:02 You know what it's like? 25:04 It's like sitting on the railroad track, 25:06 hearing someone tell you that at 6:30 there is a speeding 25:11 train that's going to come down the track... 25:12 And you look around... it's now 6:25, 25:15 you say, "I don't see anything, I don't hear anything, 25:17 I'm going to sit here, I'm going to just be here. " 25:20 "If it comes, it comes" 25:22 Now does that sound like a smart thing to do? No 25:25 No, because at 6:30, what's going to happen? 25:28 SPLAT! All right 25:30 Now, the issue with diabetes, the GOOD news is that 25:33 diabetes, in LARGE part, can be avoided. 25:37 So someone who has a risk, a high risk of developing 25:41 diabetes, really should be paying much more attention 25:44 to living a more optimal life to avoid the diabetes 25:47 and avoid the complications and avoid the NEEDLESS suffering 25:51 that they will have because of it. 25:53 Now diabetes does not just affect the person, 25:56 diabetes affects the family! 25:59 Many people don't understand this... 26:01 What they think is... "Well, I'm the master of 26:03 my own destiny here, see I can do whatever I want, 26:06 and everything is fine. " 26:07 But you know, that same person, after they get diabetes, 26:10 and they have the complications, they go blind, 26:12 who is going to take care of them? 26:13 That's right, it could be actually selfishness 26:17 if they don't take care of it. That's correct 26:19 Similarly, they don't do anything, 26:21 their blood pressure goes up, so they have diabetes, 26:23 high blood pressure, they are overweight, 26:24 they get a stroke... Right? 26:26 It's ONE thing if you get a stroke and you die... 26:28 it's another thing if you get 26:29 a stroke and you LIVE and you're paralyzed... 26:31 You lose your coping and your ability to think. 26:34 Is there good news at The Lifestyle Center of America 26:36 when you treat people, what happens - in our last minute 26:38 What we see is their blood sugars come down, 26:41 their medication USE comes down, 26:44 their insulin, oftentimes, comes down for 26:46 type 2 diabetes or goes off completely. 26:48 We have people whose cholesterol comes down, 26:51 their triglycerides come down, 26:52 their cardiovascular risks come down, 26:54 their JOY OF LIVING goes UP! 26:58 And they do better, they feel better, they feel great! 27:01 And their family feels better. Oh YES! 27:03 GREAT! Well, thank you so much 27:04 for sharing, kind of your approach to that, 27:07 and I'm sure, it sounds like that you would have 27:09 much more to share. 27:10 Of course, you probably... what do you have... 27:12 an 18-day program, a 12-day program? 27:13 We have a 19-day program. 27:14 And a 90-day program too, and so you could just 27:17 share and share and share on this and we're glad 27:20 that you have that facility and you're sharing in that way. 27:23 You've been watching "Health for a Lifetime" 27:25 We've been talking to Dr. Zeno Charles-Marcel 27:28 He's the medical director of The Lifestyle Center of America 27:31 and they have a web page by that same name 27:34 www. lifestylecenter. org 27:37 If you'd like more information about their programs 27:39 dealing with diabetes or the other common killers 27:41 in America, or if you'd like information about 27:44 other health programs, or would like to get a 27:45 copy of this video or other health information here at 3ABN, 27:48 please give us a call, and we HOPE that as a 27:50 result of your call and of this program that you will have 27:54 HEALTH that truly WILL last for a LIFETIME! |
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