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Are you being confused by the conflicting health reports
in the news today? In this well marketed world is hard to know
who or even what to believe, but there are answers
that you can depend on.
Hi I'm Dr. James Markham, join me for Bible RX, a program
exploring the health care world, looking at all aspects
of healing, using the Bible and Biblical prescriptions as the ultimate source of truth.
In the news today we hear much about integrated medicine.
What is integrative medicine? Well that is using the best of many different
worlds, whether that might be traditional medicine,
holistic medicine, chiropractic and the list goes on
and on. Today on Bible RX we have a special guest,
Myrna Peterson. She specializes in naturopathic medicine,
We're going to answer your questions and glean insights
from this specialist today on Bible RX.
In this well marketed world is hard to know who and
even what to believe how some people even get their
information from a guy that slept at the Holiday Inn Express last night.
Well that is not good enough for me and it's probably
not good enough for you. At Bible RX we bring healers from all walks
of life and today we brought Myrna Peterson, she is an
expert in naturopathic medicine and Myrna welcome to
Bible RX. Please tell us first of all what brought you
to this type of healing?
Thank you for having me on Bible RX, about years ago
I was told by the medical community there was nothing
more than medical community could do. Being a juvenile diabetic for many years my
health was deteriorating so I prayed and I kept getting
health food store, health food store so I thought
rabbit food no. So I went and God put this wonderful lady
into my life and shared about natural eating, healthy eating,
raw fruits and vegetables and whole grains, more natural
and unprocessed food. That is what I decided to do and mainly vegetarian.
We even went vegan and raw for quite a while and my health
totally changed so my energy increased, my blood sugars
went down, my insulin requirements went down and
my medical doctors could not believe it. Just by changing the food you ate?
Just the food I ate and exercising more. I was active, but I really didn't excise
I didn't get good cardiovascular. I got very interested in and how foods heal
and just the effect foods had all the body with
different medical conditions. At that point to get more training? - yes
I did. What did that consist of?
I went to the College of natural health. The clinic is in Tulsa Oklahoma, at the college
itself is in Minnesota and I have a degree basically
in nutritional naturopathic healing.
What type of courses would you take to get this degree?
That is the course. I guess how plants and things affect your
body? Exactly - and how to use them. - how to use
them. Well that is very interesting because you
know back years ago, years and years ago medicine used
to always be with plants. - exactly that is where most
of our drugs originally originated from.
For instance different chemotherapy we have these
specialists now called plant prospectors who actually go
all over the world looking for plants and they might
find a good chemical they can copy in the lab and
actually turn into a medication. - Right! So you have found in your own personal experience
that changing your diet and changing your chemistry
through what you eat can be very valuable?
Exactly, and not using traditional medicines unless it
was an absolute emergency. Now how long can this transformation take,
could you see it immediately in your life where did
it take a while? No it took a little while.
Now are you still do those techniques today to stay
healthy? - yes. What we have done Myrna is that we have collected
questions from literally all over the world that
specifically deals with the ways people might change
their chemistry through naturopathic ways. If you think about it, God gave us our original
diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains and if
I was trying to destroy the world what I would do is introduce
a bunch of these chemicals and preservatives and things
that our bodies work designed to take.
Exactly, and that deteriorates and breaks down the body.
Now I work the cardio vascular disease and % of my
disease could be prevented if people would make the
correct lifestyle changes. - absolutely. We are going to try to answer these, and I'm
not saying that we are going to have the answer for everyone.
But we are certainly going to do our best. The first question comes from the state of
Florida So this person thinks they had food poisoning,
they might have ate at a restaurant and that is a whole
other issue. You know the kind of easy to get restaurants
at how they touch and handle them, they got sick at their
stomach and they were wanting to know some natural remedies
that might help them overcome this illness quickly.
Well the first thing I think of with food poisoning,
or any type of gastric or intestinal type situation is
activated charcoal, they use activated charcoal in the
emergency room for food poisoning, drug overdoses because it absorbs the toxins and you eliminated
through the stool. So for food poisoning you would take activated
charcoal. They have it in tablet form and also they
have it in powder form so you can have it either way. It works
wonderfully. Now I have an example for you.
I ate some Chinese food the other day and my wife usually
likes Indian but she talked me into Chinese so
I ate Chinese but I was worried because it was at one
of these food bars. I luckily didn't get food poisoning, if I
had gotten food poisoning how much charcoal would I have taken,
and when should I have taken it, and what is
too much or too little? Well you can't really overdoses on activated
charcoal, the worst that it is going to do is constipate
you. Usually if you have the tablet form, you chew
tablets at one time and they can be taken every two to
three hours depending on your symptoms.
If you have the power form, you mix a tablespoon of the
powder form either in juice or water, usually water and
it can be warm or cool it doesn't matter. You just drink it. Is it going to gag you
though? Have you ever had charcoal?
Yes I have and no it doesn't, it turns your teeth black.
Kids love it because of that. Chew it down! -Oh yeah it has very little
taste, if any. It actually pulls the poisons into it and
then I guess it absorbs through your system? - yes it does.
Now tell me, can charcoal be used for anything else naturally?
Yes charcoal could be used for poultices because it has.
Now you are going to have to explain what a poultice is,
someone might not understand what are poultices. That is true, a poultice, say you have a bee
sting. You are not highly allergic but you have the
burning and the pain, you can mix activated charcoal,
equal parts, with psyllium husks, or ground flax seed and water
until it gets to be a gooey paste and you placed on
the affected area and you put plastic or Band-Aid or something
over it to keep it moist.
It draws the poisons out. - wow, so charcoal. It can also draw infection out also.
This person also went on later in the question and said
should I drink water and can I eat food when I have food
poisoning, they want to know what you would recommend if
they had food poisoning can they still. I guess I wouldn't eat water, and I would
take water, eat water what am I saying?
But I drink lots of water but not eat more food if I had
food poisoning. - I had food poisoning one time in my life,
this is before I knew anything about natural healing.
I wound up in the hospital, food I never ate food.
The more water you drink, the faster is going to be
eliminated from your system because it's going to flush
it out and water of course is the best. Food poisoning - hydration - charcoal.
Okay let's move to the next question. This actually comes from the great state of
Missouri. This person says they been having problems
with digestion. I eat my big meal usually at nine o'clock
at night and I can't lay down flat and my food doesn't
move through me. This person is eating late at night, big meal,
can't move it through the system and they want some
suggestions to help their digestion. First of all I would say you need to eat a
lot earlier. Okay - okay and maybe not eat your large meal
in the evening, maybe at noontime.
Some people that is not appropriate because of work
schedules, you want to eat before six o'clock in the
evening. Is it possible that the circadian rhythms
and everything slows down at night. Right, everything slows down and your body
starts to go into a healing mode during sleep so your body
can't digest and heal during your sleep time.
For normal indigestion, or slow digestion you can use
many different forms, you can use Gentian. What is Gentian s that an herb?
It's an herb, you can use that or peppermint tea which
stimulates the acid in your stomach because you don't
produce I'm guessing of course because of diagnoses.
Peppermint helps to increase your stomach acid and also
a little bit of apple cider vinegar will help digestion
if you are lacking stomach acid. All these have sound science behind these
right? Right! - I've heard of the peppermint but
I never heard of the Gentian before. - yes sir - is that
spelled G- e-n-t-i-a-n? Gentian okay.
But you know what I think might be the most helpful for
this person, even if they don't need that, that big meal at
night, God made us where we break the fast in the morning.
But nowadays everyone is eating big at night and I see
cholesterol levels go high and people don't rest because
of the reflux and there are a lot of things that go on.
Well in the natural arena, a lot of the medical professionals are saying that you are still
cleansing until noontime there is Halleluiah Acres,
a big facilitator of that, that you don't eat in
the morning. That you eat a larger lunch, a very moderate
fruit juice diet in the morning, and your larger meal
at night because your body has more energy and time
at a relaxed state instead of a high stress state.
So I think that is why people are eating in the natural
arena a little later at night. I'm not sure that that is exactly the best
way to do it. Well you know there's a lot of controversy
on this because recent medical reports say to speed up your
metabolism eat meals every three to four hours all day
long. We have also had people say you break your
fast at your big meal at breakfast and I think a lot of
this can be individualized.
I think a lot people's metabolism, their jobs, and the
foods they eat also all plays a role in this. I think the foods they eat is a major factor.
I think people would agree that if you eat a bunch
chemicals and lay down at night and try to go to sleep that
people would agree on that one. Absolutely! You know we are talking about
natural ways of making our body better, why don't you think
we haven't heard more about this? In the computer, in
the Internet we are hearing a lot about it.
Why do you think we haven't heard some of these things
before now? It seems like it has all been dominated
by medicine and treatments until the last few years.
Well because I think there is not enough research behind
it, there is a lot of research but not the double
blindsided placebo studies that the medical community
likes to see before they recommend these types of things.
The drug industry is very powerful. Like let's be honest, there is a place for
modern medicine. - absolutely.
- there is a place for all different types of healing.
One thing that we like to talk about at Bible RX
is the Bible also gives us wonderful treatments and if you
look at our original diet, fruits, vegetables, nuts,
and grains and these are the things that God gave us
things in nature that we can actually use correctly
to heal different ailments. Definitely, well this is all very fascinating
and we have a lot more questions but we are coming
up to our first break now.
If you are interested in this type of healing message
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P.O. Box Ooltewah TN . We will be right back in just a few minutes
and talk about naturopathic healing with Myrna Peterson.
Stay with us!