Health for a Lifetime

Sweet Blood, Sour Deal

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Participants: Zeno Charles - Marcel, Don Mackintosh

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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.
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14:33 shed a few pounds?
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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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