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Nutrition for Diabetes

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00:01 Welcome back to the Ultimate Prescription.
00:02 I'm your host Nick Evenson, here with Dr. James Marcum.
00:04 And if you just joined us today,
00:05 we're talking about nutrition,
00:07 specifically as it relate to chronic diseases
00:09 such as diabetes.
00:10 And, Dr. Marcum, we've been talking
00:12 and we teased that we're gonna talk about our case study.
00:14 But before we do that,
00:15 I want to talk a little bit about fats,
00:18 because you mentioned
00:20 part of the problem with type 2 diabetes is insulin
00:21 being blocked from getting into the insulin receptors.
00:24 What are good fats and bad fats?
00:26 And what do we need to know about it?
00:27 Yeah, well, we know that it's the nutrient composition
00:32 that makes a big difference in our body.
00:34 Our body was designed to handle the certain nutrients
00:37 in certain compositions, okay?
00:40 God created us pretty much to eat fruits, vegetables,
00:42 nuts, and grains.
00:44 When we get more than maybe 10%-15% of unhealthy fats
00:49 in our bodies, the fat is stored.
00:51 Okay, unhealthy fats are what? Yeah.
00:53 Well, things that are processed,
00:55 animal based fats,
00:56 you know, things that are from animals,
00:59 that's the main source of fat, that's not bad,
01:01 fats that are created,
01:03 any type of fat that's heated up,
01:04 you've heard of saturated fats, those aren't the good fats,
01:07 okay?
01:09 We get above a certain line in the body
01:11 and the body stores them, stores them in the arteries,
01:14 makes the arteries not work as well.
01:16 Causes other metabolic changes in our body
01:19 that we're just now beginning to understand,
01:21 you know, we're still learning a lot about nutrition,
01:24 and physiology,
01:25 and the metabolism of the cells of the body.
01:27 So this is not by far finished yet.
01:30 We don't know everything. Right.
01:32 But we're learning when we cross that line,
01:34 bad things start to happen.
01:36 Similarly, when we bring in a lot of animal based proteins,
01:39 similar things happen.
01:41 The metabolism gets messed up in many different ways,
01:44 whether it be from the liver
01:45 or going in different types of metabolism,
01:47 storage metabolism, things don't work well.
01:50 When the metabolism changes,
01:52 the body has these chronic processes that go on,
01:55 that eventually damages.
01:56 So we talked before about stresses on a system,
01:59 the wrong type of nutrition,
02:01 the wrong type of nutrient composition
02:03 puts stress on the body.
02:05 We were never designed
02:07 to bring in large amounts of animal protein,
02:09 animal fat, processed foods.
02:12 Now if a person is starving and has nothing else to eat,
02:16 yes, it's better to do that than starve.
02:18 But for treating chronic diseases like diabetes,
02:21 I teach people this.
02:23 Now we have wonderful technology in the world
02:25 that blows my mind away, how much technology.
02:28 We can make all these pills
02:30 that will bring down the blood sugar
02:32 through many different mechanisms.
02:33 We have different shots we give,
02:35 we have different procedures that we have with insulin pumps
02:38 which are very beneficial for some people.
02:41 But at the same time,
02:42 what blows my mind sometimes is we don't get it the cause.
02:46 We treat the symptoms with all this technology,
02:49 but we don't treat the cause with all this technology.
02:52 Well, how do you use technology to do this?
02:55 Well, what we need to do
02:57 is eventually come up with healthier foods
02:59 and encourage that,
03:00 and bring it on to people, so use the technology,
03:03 so people will make better choices,
03:05 and we're doing that.
03:06 But it's something that's a work in progress.
03:09 It's gonna take some time.
03:11 It takes time to effect major changes.
03:14 And sometimes in a life,
03:16 when you want to change your health habits,
03:18 sometimes it takes time.
03:20 It doesn't happen overnight.
03:22 But the most important thing
03:23 I want to focus on in our ministry
03:25 is the most important time, while it's taking time,
03:28 it's letting God's time be there in your life.
03:31 Yeah.
03:32 Now how about a couple of foods that we think of as good...
03:34 Oh, yeah.
03:36 Avocados, cashew nuts, and those kinds of things.
03:38 Are those of concern for type 2 diabetes?
03:40 Well, as long as we don't eat lots of them,
03:42 as long as we don't cross the line
03:44 and bring too much percentage of them in.
03:46 Now if you want to reverse that diabetes,
03:48 you want to move all the fats out that you can, okay?
03:52 But once you reverse type diabetes,
03:53 you'd probably have some healthy fats back in your diet.
03:56 And people that we try to reverse heart disease
03:59 that are having symptoms, we do some more things.
04:02 We get rid of all the fat, all the animal protein,
04:04 all that stuff we can,
04:06 because we want to not only hold the metabolism good,
04:08 but we want to actually change what's going on in the body.
04:11 And sometimes we can do it very effectively
04:14 pinning the genes.
04:15 Sometimes we have bad genes that we can't do much with,
04:18 because they've been turned on
04:20 at a younger age than we'd like.
04:22 So some of those we do need modern medicine with.
04:24 So this is a very complex situation, disease reversal.
04:28 It not only includes the diet,
04:30 it includes the oblique systems,
04:32 it include exercise and all the different stressors
04:35 that might be turning on our epigenetics,
04:37 which might be aging our,
04:39 either good or bad genes to begin with.
04:42 Isn't this all interesting? It's fascinating.
04:43 Yeah. I think so.
04:44 One thing I keep thinking about it,
04:46 you promised a case study...
04:47 Yeah.
04:49 For a patient who had an issue with type 2 diabetes?
04:50 Yeah, I had a patient comes in,
04:52 and this is a guy that's never ever been sick before,
04:55 Nick, pretty healthy guy.
04:57 Not on, no medicines.
04:59 This guy didn't go to the doctor,
05:00 exercised every day,
05:02 was actually ate whole food plant-based diet.
05:05 Also, you know, didn't eat a lot of that bad stuff.
05:08 Anyway, he got...
05:11 All of a sudden one day, he relates his story.
05:13 He started to have symptoms, okay?
05:16 And the symptoms he had,
05:17 he was going to the bathroom all the time.
05:19 You know, he couldn't even go three hours
05:21 without going to bathroom,
05:23 up four or five times at night going to the bathroom.
05:25 Extreme fatigue, tired all the time.
05:29 So, you know, this guy wasn't stupid.
05:31 So he figured something's wrong.
05:33 I need some help. I need to go see my doctor.
05:35 Now he didn't go regularly to see his doctor
05:37 like he should,
05:38 because he thought he was doing good.
05:40 You know, he's doing all these things right
05:41 that he was supposed to do,
05:42 but finally, he decided to go to the doctor,
05:44 because he says, "Something bad's wrong."
05:46 He thought he had some prostate issues,
05:48 you know, that's why he was going to the bathroom,
05:49 his prostate was messed up.
05:51 Maybe it's something serious.
05:53 And he was just feeling horrible.
05:55 Well, he went to the doctor and the doctor says,
05:57 "Well, going to the bathroom a lot,
06:00 thirsty a lot, fatigue,
06:02 you know, the big elephant in the room is diabetes."
06:05 You know, I think the chronic disease
06:07 that you have, it's most likely diabetes.
06:09 So he says, "I think you have diabetes."
06:11 So sure enough, this guy had diabetes.
06:13 We measure a diabetic measurement
06:17 called a hemoglobin A1c, okay?
06:20 When it's above 6, that's considered high.
06:22 Well, this guy had a level of 13.
06:25 Oh, wow. Hemoglobin A1c of 13.
06:28 And what that is, is you have hemoglobin,
06:30 and the percent of sugar that's bound to that.
06:33 So 13% was bound to that.
06:35 We want it to be less than six, okay?
06:38 At least.
06:39 His fasting blood sugar was in the 200 or 300s.
06:42 And that's why he was going to the bathroom so much.
06:45 That's why he had no energy,
06:46 because he could not get the sugar into his cells,
06:49 the carbohydrates in the cells which he needed for energy.
06:51 But as a result, his body was responding
06:54 by doing all sorts of bad things.
06:56 A condition called
06:58 the metabolic syndrome happened.
07:00 His metabolism changed.
07:01 He started storing things like uric acid in his body.
07:05 His cholesterol level was real high.
07:08 Lots of aches and joint pains,
07:10 just lot of symptoms that he was having.
07:13 Cholesterol level, really, really high.
07:15 So, you know, because of all this,
07:17 he just wasn't feeling well.
07:18 So he went to the doctor and the doctor says,
07:20 "Man, you're in pretty bad shape."
07:22 And he goes...
07:23 He was like surprised. Yeah, had no idea.
07:25 How could this happen to me?
07:26 But this guy wasn't totally dumb, okay?
07:28 I give him some credit.
07:30 He had the little bit of brain power.
07:31 And he says, "Listen, doc, I know I have diabetes.
07:34 And I thank you for diagnosing.
07:35 But I don't really want to take your medicine.
07:37 I don't want to take your,"
07:39 and he wanted to put him on a medicine called metformin.
07:41 He says, "No, I don't want to take this,
07:43 even though it's super high,
07:44 I want to give it a try to reverse it."
07:46 And he had a really nice doctor and his doctor says,
07:48 "Well, I'll give you some months to do it."
07:50 And so he went, did his research
07:52 and found out the things I'm talking about,
07:54 about going to whole food plant-based diet.
07:56 But he was already on that.
07:58 Yeah, right.
07:59 But what he was not doing,
08:01 you know, he was on that good diet
08:02 but he was still taking in too many healthy fats
08:05 and he was still taking in processed foods.
08:07 Okay. This guy was a chipaholic.
08:09 When I talked him about his diet,
08:11 he was eating too many chips.
08:12 They're made of corn. Yes, corns are good.
08:14 That's right, corn is good.
08:16 But he would go to a Mexican restaurant
08:19 and eat too many chips,
08:20 and he was addicted to it, as addicted behavior.
08:22 And he wasn't exercising as much as he should.
08:25 So he went to a real strict diet.
08:27 No processed foods.
08:29 Ate things like oatmeal and nuts in the morning,
08:32 salads only with vinaigrettes, nothing fat on it,
08:35 may be some beans.
08:36 And he did this for two months, stuck with it
08:39 and he increased his exercise program
08:40 to an hour and half a day.
08:43 Well, in two months that hemoglobin A1c
08:45 went from 13 all the way down to 5.
08:50 And he went back to...
08:51 In how many months? In two months.
08:53 Wow!
08:54 And he went back to his doctor and he says,
08:55 "Well, this is nice, but this is not sustainable."
08:59 Okay?
09:00 So he says, "I'm gonna give you four months, you can't keep..."
09:02 You know, this patient can't keep this up.
09:03 So went back to his doctor and said,
09:05 "No, you can't keep this up."
09:06 But you know what? He kept this up.
09:08 He made a few more changes
09:09 and added some healthy fats in his diet.
09:11 But he has addictions to processed foods,
09:14 he had his understanding
09:16 of the importance of exercise improved.
09:17 No he was still...
09:19 His pancreas was making insulin but not a lot of insulin.
09:22 So he really had type one and a half,
09:24 the type of diabetes from a genetic lazy pancreas
09:27 as well as from the process of eating too much fat.
09:31 So eat a little bit of both.
09:32 Had compounded issue.
09:33 And he knew, if he didn't make changes,
09:35 he will run out of insulin,
09:36 then he would have to take modern medicine to stay alive.
09:40 So I think, this is a very, very dramatic story.
09:43 And this gentleman had his blood checked recently,
09:46 and he's now done it for over a year,
09:48 keeping him a non-diabetic, but he has diabetic tendencies.
09:52 So would you say this person is a diabetic or not?
09:56 Yeah, I'd say probably so. Yeah.
09:58 So but there's lots of people
09:59 that are walking around the world today
10:01 that have some type of chronic disease.
10:04 And people, in talking this gentleman,
10:07 I said, "What's the key to this?
10:08 What's the key to you making that change?"
10:11 And you know, he related to me,
10:13 the key to making that change was his relationship with God.
10:17 He says, "I ask God for help to do things, I couldn't do."
10:20 It's not easy to get on the treadmill
10:22 and walk an hour and half a day.
10:24 It's not easy to eat these foods over and over.
10:26 But God gave him the power to break those addictions
10:30 and that's what able that person
10:32 to beat type 2 diabetes.
10:34 So to answer that question, earlier we did today,
10:37 yes, type 2 is reversible.
10:40 And you know who that person was?
10:41 I do actually,
10:43 but I think you're gonna have to tell everyone.
10:44 Yeah, that person who reversed type 2 diabetes was myself.
10:47 Yeah.
10:48 And I went through all of those changes
10:50 with God's help.
10:51 And I realize that all of us have problems,
10:54 we all need a savior, and that's the real solution
10:56 to not only see the lifestyle changes
10:59 and the place for modern medicine,
11:00 but give us the power in our life to do things
11:03 for the right reasons.
11:05 So I was just happy in my life that God gave me the power
11:08 to not only see that, but make some changes
11:11 so I could use this as a testimony to others,
11:14 to help inspire them
11:16 to come into relationship with the ultimate physician,
11:18 who can give them power to see truth and enact change.
11:21 And even if they can't do anything,
11:23 as long as they're with Christ, they're in a very safe place.
11:27 Yeah, and I think that's a great reminder
11:28 for folks who are maybe vegetarians
11:30 and they feel like they eat pretty healthy,
11:32 but if they're still eating a lot of processed foods,
11:34 and they have the wrong genetics
11:36 and that are kind of predisposed for diabetes,
11:38 they still could have an issue.
11:39 And, Nick, the changes I made were pretty drastic,
11:43 pretty quick, because I felt horrible.
11:46 I was going to the bathroom all the time.
11:48 I was tired all the time.
11:49 I was working and doing ministry work,
11:51 doing good things,
11:52 but if you don't take care of your health,
11:54 you know, things don't go well.
11:56 So I really had to depend on my Heavenly Father, I said,
11:59 "God, I don't know why You did this,
12:00 but I want to use it to glorify Your name.
12:03 I want to use it to help this ministry.
12:05 I want to use it to help other people,"
12:06 realized that this is the major problem
12:09 in our world today.
12:11 When one in three are gonna have it,
12:12 when it's leading precursor to all these vascular problems
12:15 like heart attack, strokes, neuropathies, kidney disease,
12:19 blindness, we want to help people do better
12:22 and it comes from the power that comes
12:24 that you give us to see truth and enact that in our lives.
12:27 That's an awesome testimony.
12:29 Thank you for sharing Dr. Marcum.
12:30 You're welcome.
12:31 But I want to make one free offer here.
12:33 Our free guide to optimum nutrition
12:34 is available at Biblical Prescriptions.com/Nutrition.
12:38 There're some great tips, some inspiration there
12:41 for you to find better ways
12:43 to eat whole food plant-based diet
12:45 and then move yourself towards the better health
12:47 and a better relationship with our Heavenly Father.
12:49 Thanks for joining us.
12:50 Dr. Marcum will close the program
12:52 in just a moment with prayer.
13:00 I've learnt personally
13:02 that chronic disease is reversible.
13:05 And I'm so thankful that in my case,
13:08 God helped me one step at a time
13:10 to see what I needed to do.
13:11 He gave me the power to do it and stick with it.
13:15 And I want to let you focus
13:16 in on what's so important in our lives,
13:18 and that's the relationship between our Heavenly Father
13:20 to help us to see truth
13:22 and that He really is the Ultimate Prescription.
13:25 Let's pray together.
13:28 Father of God, we want to thank You
13:30 for taking care of us
13:31 and using our weaknesses to help other people
13:34 and to turn our diseases into testimonies
13:38 and witnesses for You, Father, and go with us this day.
13:41 And we thank You so much
13:43 for Your saving grace is our prayer, amen.
13:47 I want to thank you for joining us today
13:48 on the Ultimate Prescription.
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13:52 or if you might have a question,
13:53 go to our website, that's HeartWiseMinistries.org.


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