Ultimate Prescription

Osteoporosis

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

Program transcript

Participants: Nick Evenson (Host), Dr. James Marcum

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Series Code: UP

Program Code: UP000078A


00:16 Do want to protect yourself with strong and healthy bones?
00:19 If so, you're not going to want to miss this program,
00:21 stay with us.
00:23 I'm Dr. James Marcum, are you interested in
00:26 discovering the reason why?
00:29 Do you want solutions to your healthcare problem?
00:31 Are you tired of taking medications?
00:34 Well, you're about to be given "The Ultimate Prescription"
00:40 One out of 2 people - those are the odds of breaking your bone
00:44 if you are a woman over the age of 50.
00:46 How can we avoid being a statistic? Dr. Marcum...
00:49 Well, no one wants to be a statistic, Nick. That's right.
00:53 And everyone wants strong bones. Certainly!
00:55 And, you know, what's sort of interesting is
00:57 I really got interested in this topic because so many
01:01 people break bones when they get older. That's right
01:04 Also, some people break bones when get younger,
01:07 and when a person breaks a bone,
01:09 it triggers a lot of other bad things to happen.
01:12 I can't tell you, how many people when they get older,
01:15 they have a hip fracture and if they have a hip fracture,
01:18 they can't move.
01:19 And sometimes when they can't move,
01:21 they get blood clots in their legs.
01:22 Sometimes when they get blood clots in their legs,
01:24 they have emboli, pulmonary embolism.
01:27 Sometimes they don't take deep breaths.
01:29 They get infections, pneumonias.
01:32 Sometimes when people break bones or in more pain,
01:34 they don't eat as well, their bowel slows down.
01:37 They end up taking other pain medications
01:39 which slows down their bowels.
01:40 So breaking a bone, especially older in life,
01:44 is catastrophic, so I want to talk today
01:46 about things that we can do to help make our bones stronger;
01:52 little things that we can do because part of
01:54 our bone health is not as good as we age.
01:58 and that's just part of aging.
02:00 And, we lose about 15% of our bone density,
02:04 a woman does, in the 5 to 7 years
02:08 after menopause.
02:09 So just from losing that estrogen,
02:11 you start losing your bones, and as everyone knows,
02:14 when people get older, you see them - they don't
02:16 walk as well - they start to teeter and fall,
02:19 well part of that is the aging process, but there are a lot of
02:22 things that we can do to help with that.
02:24 Now before you go on, if you think of animals,
02:28 if you thought what animal has the strongest bones...
02:31 what animal would you think had the strongest bones?
02:34 I would think that giraffes have pretty strong bones.
02:37 Okay, I wouldn't think giraffe, I would think elephants.
02:40 Elephants because they're heavier maybe, huh?
02:42 I would think elephants because they're so big,
02:44 and they have these big bones that come out of their...
02:46 the tusks, right...they have tusks, the ivory and those guys
02:50 are pretty strong to carry a big beast like that around.
02:54 And the general principle is those animals
02:57 are always on the move. Right
02:58 They don't sit down and take it easy.
03:00 The elephants, I see the movies and they're drinking
03:03 water through their trunks all the time...
03:05 And, an elephant is a whole food plant-base person.
03:09 You know, he eats whole plants, so those are some of the
03:11 characteristics of what will make us have strong bones. Sure
03:15 Moving - moving weight around, eating a healthy diet,
03:18 drinking water - those are some characteristics that will help
03:21 us make strong bones. Right
03:24 So, we're going to talk about something else before we
03:26 get to some questions that have come into our website,
03:28 and that's first aid... and I brought my own first aid kit
03:31 in here and I thought we might take a look at it.
03:33 Well I'm glad you brought that, you know, we've been
03:35 talking about different first aids, and of course,
03:37 we've been giving a person that would make a large kit.
03:39 This is a much smaller kit that you could take in a car...
03:42 You could take that in a backpack. Right
03:45 Why don't you open it up and show us what inside of it?
03:47 Well that's what I bought it for, I like to do a lot of
03:48 camping and backpacking with my friends,
03:50 and so this is a good size, it's not too heavy,
03:52 and I could take it with me.
03:54 And so, when we open it up here, I've got a set of gloves,
03:56 so that I can be as safe as possible and one of the first
04:00 things that we've got is we've got an Ace bandage here.
04:02 Yep, that's good to stabilize joints.
04:04 That's right to stabilize joints.
04:05 And we also have some scissors and a bunch of bandages
04:07 in the back here and a lot of bandages so that if there's
04:11 bleeding, we can just keep putting more fresh bandages on
04:14 and try and eliminate that bleeding.
04:16 And there's also some medications here
04:18 for some basic... I think there's some Benadryl
04:20 for allergies and that type of thing.
04:21 And, we also have a CPR face shield right there.
04:24 Good, good. So those are some things
04:26 We also have antiseptics to help fight infections,
04:29 and some gauze here as well for more wounds.
04:32 So this is a much smaller kit,
04:35 and doesn't have as much in there,
04:36 but what a few things that you think I might want to
04:38 make sure that I have in here.
04:40 Well, you know, you've got a bug bite apparatus
04:44 where you deal with bug bites, where you can deal with
04:46 bad bug bites a little more, that might help.
04:49 You've got some good things for compression
04:51 and stop bleeding, so that's good.
04:53 This can also immobilize joints, so that's very valuable.
04:57 You've got some different things for pain and for
05:00 antihistamine - so that's pretty good.
05:02 You've got tons of bandages, that all helps. Right
05:05 So I think you've got sort of the basics covered there, Nick.
05:09 If someone was to get dehydrated or have diarrhea,
05:14 you might want to add some tablets to that.
05:17 Some water purification tablets might help if you
05:20 have room for that. Right
05:21 And, of course, we've talked of the more advanced kits
05:25 that we have, have more advanced apparatus,
05:27 but I think that covers it pretty well.
05:28 Yeah, it's a great idea to have just a small
05:31 kit that you can kind of take anywhere,
05:32 and always have ready.
05:34 Well that's good and I like that you have the gloves
05:35 in case, you know, if you don't want to contaminate
05:38 yourself with blood. That's right
05:39 And, hopefully, we won't need that first aid kit
05:43 during this program today. Hopefully not...
05:45 Hopefully we won't start bleeding and I promise you
05:47 I won't hit you with the reflex hammer. I'd appreciate that!
05:50 You know, we don't use these as much as we used to.
05:53 We used to hit the reflexes to test the nervous system
05:56 to see if it was working well.
05:58 But we're going to really focus on bones,
06:00 and there have been so many questions that come in about
06:02 bones that I think we're going to learn a lot
06:04 from these questions we cover. That's right
06:07 And if you have a question, you're watching at home,
06:09 and you want to ask Dr. Marcum a question,
06:11 go to our website: heartwiseministries.org
06:14 and you can ask the doctor.
06:15 We're going to be right back in just a moment, and stay with us.


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