Secrets of Longevity - Dr.John Scharffenberg

Well welcome to this uh presentation on the The Landmark health issues that are recent and out of our day uh back after our book proved positive in fact someone mentioned that afterwards one of the reasons uh after Dr scharfenberg and I had spent some time together we uh we came out with or I came out with the book proof positive and scharfenberg Was one of the primary commentators on the back of the book and it really helped itself what's that oh yes the forward the forward in the book yeah [Laughter] he says he says it's

a good forward you should read it now years later ah that was back in the 90s so yeah that's been been a while uh and we're just updating it now we're um we have it out I think this fall Um but uh we're we'll have all updated studies and actually some new chapters and things but after that book came out I was asked to speak at a place in East Texas and it was called since the book was called proof positive it's called the proof positive Health Summit and uh there was a uh community lady

that came that everyone noticed because she didn't get out much but she had just turned 100. and she was actually taking notes on how She could have better health at 100. and uh the word got out and the news media realized this could be a news media event and so um uh the news media news anchor woman herself came out afterwards and there was a lunchtime meal and so she bought a little cake with a hundred candles on it and uh the lady blew the candles out and then this news anchored a microphone under her

chin and said tell us ma'am what's special about being 100 and right away She said no peer pressure foreign and I was thinking today you know when when you're 100 and you have no peer pressure you can say whatever you want to say you can say what's on your heart and Dr scharfenberg we're looking forward to hearing about these landmarks um Health aspects and also I might be interviewing you near the end and then we cannot open It up for some questions you want this computer hooked up or you want to just go off your

nose computer you won't need the computer okay I'll just unplug this and get rid of it yeah the computer is all up in his brain you're exactly right and it keeps expanding now ever since I was a little boy I was a strong believer in spirit of Prophecy I've studied that all my life probably know more about it than anybody else and I know more about it because my wife read it all and if there's something new that I didn't know she would tell me now let me as a medical student before I was a

medical student here's the handout oh they don't have that yet I want them to have the handouts this morning you got in the one on drugs Yeah anyway I saw these strong statements in the spirit of Prophecy and I believe the spirit of Prophecy but how do I handle these statements when you understand physiology in a sure sense your drug bills will be very much smaller and finally you will cease to deal out drugs at all drug medications never have been introduced into our Institution They Physicians resort to drugs on greater skill and knowledge would

teach them the more excellent way sanitarians were to reform the medical practice of Physicians it is the Lord's purpose that his method of healing without drugs should be brought into prominence in every large city through our medical institutions how can I do that I believe it was in the spirit of Rossi How can you do this I'm going to show you the Lord was so kind to us in our ignorance he showed us how to do it that's the big breakthrough now you've heard of a fellow by the name of Pasteur because of his flash

studies we learned the germ Theory a career breaks through in hell Fleming came along discovered penicillin Never big breakthrough now the other big breakthrough on and talk about just happened and nobody has heard of it cardiovascular disease is best prevented by lifestyle we can decrease heart attacks first stroke 80 percent with proper lifestyle and volume seven risk factors okay diabetes we can decrease the chance of getting it 88 with the same lifestyle This is what the World Health Organization says this is what the American Heart Association says this is what the European Cardiology society says

it's not just me all the big shots are saying that now my son's a doctor he goes to all these programs where they give you updates he's never heard of this that I gave it to him this material They those the doctors many of them have not accepted this thought so the world let me give this here I give you there in the first seat here maybe it's the back of the first sheet some statements from the scientific literature on that I'd give the date maybe 2010 we learned about that the risk of type 2

diabetes was lowered by 88 by the same Health behaviors now one of the seven risk Factors tobacco alcohol inactivity overweight too much meat and sugar and then the other two others high blood pressure and high cholesterol but if you do the first five you don't so often have to worry about the high blood pressure and cholesterol okay the people we build against that Recommendation of meat they rebelled so the Heart Association changed it says we need more fruits and vegetables they mean Less meat but then they added another one they said don't get more than

five to six percent of your calories from saturated fat let me give you a secret that means vegetarian diet but they haven't said any bad words they Didn't talk about vegetarian or meat just cut your saturated fat down you go a dietitian and say how do I do this and she gives you a diet that's vegetarian thank you which is quite exciting I can go into a public school and teach the Adventist Health message with those points that is the Adventist Health message and we can do it okay so I have some statements for your

file on that Now tobacco we've known that since about 1964. when the Surgeon General came out with tobacco is not good everybody knows that although in Eastern Europe they haven't heard of it it's terrible it's terrible what's going on there they haven't heard of it they're smoking a lot uh alcohol There's one fellow who just did a study in 195 countries Max Griswold up at the University of Washington Seattle now just behind him is Bill Gates's house he overlooks the canvas and his name's on many buildings on the campus but Bill Gates funded this study

now this man Max Griswold he's a social drinker and the thing that he was interested in how much is safe to drink how much is he He found the answer zero he's just like an Adventist now in this thinking on alcohol it's zero up to that time we've been saying a man can have two drinks a week and a woman wondering no longer is zero because any amount of alcohol increases your risk of dying many amount and now that's pretty good uh So it's tobacco alcohol that's two of them next one in activity you need

to exercise inactivity now next she tells you a lot of stuff about your activity for every hour you exercise you will live three hours longer pretty good isn't it that's part of the Harvard alumni study it was two hours but it changed it now it's three okay I've outlined my two Older brothers 113 years the other 16 and I'm not going to die right away so every year it's growing up another another year you see now in Hawaii they checked the people who walked two miles a day or more compared to one mile a day

or less they cut their death rate in half that's not too bad you could take the time to do that okay You don't have to worry about your heart rate or anything like that you know just work to a sweat that'll take care of it weight loss depends more on the food intake than exercise does you have to exercise too many miles to help so you got to do something with the food but I'll tell you why you need the exercise too but your whole social life changes you start getting friends who are thinner But

being lean has only an advantage if you're exercising two lean men both normal weight and everything the one that exercises the other doesn't the one who exercises has only half the risk of dying so being lean it's not going to do you any good unless you're lean because you exercise okay and a beast woman who exercises outlives The normal weight woman who doesn't exercise I had a lady who was really helping me a lot she was a good artistic person she did all my uh my drawings for my my programs and she was so good

she did this for a living she made money on doing these graphic things she was heavy she was big Big so I said to her one day you know I have to talk to you about your weight her face dropped I said you see I'm a preventive Minister doctor I have to talk to you about your weight I said do you want the good news first or the bad news she said give me the bad news first I say you should know That overweight is going to increase your dying from almost any disease we know

but let me quickly get to the good news the good news is if you exercise every day you will live longer than the normal weight woman who doesn't exercise now that's exciting news see oh good good I exercise what kind of exercise do you do I go horseback riding now I know the horse exercises [Laughter] all right but but she was excited about this horseback riding if you do exercise real well every day you will live longer than the normal white woman who doesn't exercise 2 million people one exercise the other doesn't only thing that

helps you in being lean Is if you exercise okay a smoker with high blood pressure high cholesterol who exercises lives longer than the man who has none of these problems but doesn't exercise I didn't say go smoking [Laughter] but it's true size decreases the risk of a lot of these problems for overweight people exercise Helps to handle you're going down that way and then you plateau you have to increase the BMR so you have to exercise more actually the waist circumference is probably better than the BMI you'll lose inches around your waist before you lose

weight so so that's important this inch is around the waist you see A person says oh I have exercise that's why my BMI is so high so you get into the doctor's office he measures you around here and if you're big around here either not that's overweight see it's easy to tell if you're overweight you get on the scales if the needle goes out of sight you you lay down on the floor you put between your chest and abdomen if it Goes off towards the abdomen you're too fat or if you pinch here between the

hip and the rib cage if it's more than an inch you're too fat okay I used to say put your tape measure right around the belly button I don't do that anymore I saw men walking down the streets with a belly button hanging down here this is you put that tape measure around halfway Between the rib cage and the hip bone okay when you lose weight you're eating less calories so you're going to lose muscle so what you have to do is exercise so you lose less muscle it has a higher metabolic activity than the

fat now in my weight control programs the women always get together to say let's challenge the men Now that's a mistake because the women's fact or estrogen you know goes into fat where's the men's testosterone see with higher metabolic activity they can get a long fine on 2 000 calories and lose weight and the woman has to go down to one thousand a Russian study showed if you do an Exercise that uses all the muscles that's better than just some muscles like bicycling you do the legs until you get down to where you're BMI should

be but then you stop doing it and you use Robo use it goes up again for a while before it comes down ah now I want to give you the bad news excess exercises Increases of mortality just as much as inactivity I hate to say that to anybody because hardly anybody's doing that you see but it's true now they're trying to find out how much exercise it takes to be too much and the difference between too much in the right amount is not very far they did one study to show Walking more than 10 miles

a day every day is too much it's just like not doing any exercise running five miles every day is too much so like doing no exercise you die sooner but I I say I hate to tell you that because there's very few people doing that okay now the next thing I want to talk to you about Is the fat in the diet I'm trying to get out some good nice beautiful handouts this one's World nutrition guidelines vegetarian basis I have another one what is a medical evangelism by the way when we do evangelism for the

large cities it says the minister is not adequate for the test you're supposed to have a medical Evangelist that means the end was trained like a doctor but he's in the public sphere educate people see then he comes back and works in the sanitarium which today we would call living Lifestyle Center he's not using medications he's telling people how to live so you don't get sick it's public health we were to be Public Health doctors they call them medical evangelists in those days but people were surprised I went to Dick Hart as well money University

and I said a minister is not adequate to the task for evangelizing the cities because it says the ministers are not adequate to the test you need medical medicine he says is that in your thing yes it is that's what Spirit of Prophecy Says but fast let's talk about fats let's look at this sheep so you don't talk about do these any bad words like vegetarian diet or meat you just say keep your saturated fat down to no more than five to six percent of the calories that's the Heart Association recommendation okay now the red

is the saturated fat the longer the lines the more saturated Fats there is now what has the longest line coconut Oh I thought that was a health one Gary Frazier tells me in the south island South Pacific Islands those that have the most coconuts has more heart disease I haven't gone to Bay church ladies most of them pretty big said do you have diabetes heart attack yes a lot of it All they use is coconut oil just use occasionally cooking your rice coconut milk I don't mind that but if that's the only oil you have

to use that's what you're using all the time it's not too good what's the next one butter milk has butter in it butter fats and milk that's why the heart of Association says if you're going to use Milk use only one percent fat milk or less or none see do you know Eleanor I told us not to use butter did you know that and here the Heart Association is saying the same thing palm oil we don't grow Palm nuts here over in Malaysia but they ship it here you go to the store you'll see There's

some and a lot of the labels but it's not locked lard and I might well put beef there too large is high in saturated fat okay cotton seed oil they don't sell it overseas but they do here we have to educate people not to use it but from peanut oil up it doesn't matter you have so little saturated fat Chinese like to cook with dinner oil okay Uh so it's not too bad if I didn't know what was the best I would probably pick canola oil Canada oil canola they call it Canada oil that even

has 11 percent alcoholic acid which is good so the the red ones the last five or six skip them don't use those kind but now the yellow line That's oleic acid monounsaturated fatty acids we used to say it had nothing to do with the cholesterol level now we know it does Havelock college is one of the best that has a lot of it in fact I had it for lunch avocado uh and I have one sheet here on the avocado avocados effect on blood cholesterol level You you don't just add avocados to the meal you

substitute it for another fat that's not so good avocado is very good okay now there's two fatty acids you have to have in your diet you have to have little leg acid and you have to have Alpha minolenica so omega-6 and Omega-3 now watch those omega-6 and omega-3 talking about well I'll write some little formula up here If you have three carbons in a row and then a double bond and then it changes the direction that's an omega-3 if it has six carbons in a row change the direction that's omega-6 okay when you hydrogenate uh

you knock out some of these other bonds or you change them in location location so that's not good you can form trans fatty acids too bad So we need these two now the the blue line is easily obtained you get that from almost any plant oil it's so good to lower your cholesterol the Heart Association recommends up to 10 percent of your calories from that fat but the alpha linolenic acid the green wine is an omega-3 it's hard to find chia seeds have it Flaxseed has it but if you don't grind the flax seed it'll

go right through you you won't ever see any of the oil but so grind it up before you put it on your breakfast syrup uh but that's what you need to know about the fats and then I have it written out here to exactly how much fat now okay I have the avocado sheet here now this last year well before we get to The last sheet we have about 24 million Americans taking sex they did life expectancy studies on those who took the statins and those who didn't 93 piece percent of the people who take

the statins don't live any longer than those who don't take this out it's three seven percent who take the sentence live eight and a quarter years longer something like that It does do them so good they're the Goof that already has heart disease we've been going by cholesterol level and it's not a very good indicator who has heart disease and who doesn't so I asked my cardiologist a good fella and he said would you just think maybe some of those have high cholesterol may have heart disease Maybe they don't know so they're giving medicines to

a lot of People who don't have heart disease we need a better test we we need some things done nutritionally in medical school you don't have a good course usually a nutrition we need a good course in medical school nutrition okay secondly there are many of these we don't know how to tell if you have heart diseases For sure or not they wanted to send me to San Francisco to do a test cost 980 dollars insurance company won't pay for it no nobody's going to pay for it so that's not practical we need to find

a better test uh uh the other problem is so oftentimes doctors are working in groups 20 people in a group and the head man who organized it all Caused a meeting of all the doctors and says now look we've got to make some money on this only way to do it is say see a new patient every 10 minutes and that's not going to work you don't have time in 10 minutes to get anybody persuaded to do anything so we have medical problems that need to be handled on this but here I gave you the

reference is for that 93 and 7 in this other sheet Now do you need some fat in your diet there are people promoting no fact I don't think they're Christians have you read Leviticus too the oil chapter 16 verses oil is mentioned nine times in making your cornmeal for the red now if you don't put it in the mix when the bread oaf is done I think it's third or fourth verse says paint it on top at Least you're supposed to have the oil it represents the Holy Spirit okay now I think I have one

other sheep lots of things but I can put some on the Blackboard here a whiteboard and now your cholesterol made up of three kinds HDL we used to think that was good exercise will bring it up we want it High but now I'm a big study in Canada a big study a Chinese doctor up there did it we don't think HDL has much to do with the cholesterol story heart disease sorry the one who really pushed this with Bill castellia Bill costellia Catholic gentleman a friend of mine he took his course in Belgium Came to

us for 15 years he was director of the Framingham study a real nice fellow he's a good speaker everybody likes to hear and talk and he and I have lectured together he in one room and me another hunter in each room and as the break we changed audiences I I know him quite well I called him up the other day I said Dr castelli my my ACL is low he said are you still a vegetarian I said yes stick to it he said six of it We don't think HDL is as important as he thought

it was in those days okay so the LDL is the main problem for the men low density lipoprotein cholesterol then there's the vldl very low density lipoprotein cholesterol we don't measure those anymore we take your triglycerides that's the 25 word for fat in the blood and divided by five that tells you how much cholesterol there is in the vldl The LDL has two kinds sizes the one is large light buoyance height if you have much of this you have twice the risk of heart attack but if you have the small dense type like the diabetic

has you have seven times the risk of heart attack so when you go and see your doctor how's my cholesterol doc oh you're okay don't worry about it That's not enough you'll want to know the number you want to know the number and you want to know what your triglyceride is this is what men die from but the triglyceride is a glycerol molecule with three fatty acids on it if this is up to the normal but top of normal ninety percent of your LDL cholesterol are going to be The small dense type like the diabetic

has much higher risk I was overseas and the doctor was translating for me he had never heard of that before as long as doctors haven't heard it but if you get this down to 60 to 80 U.S numbers 90 of your LDL is the large lake buoyant less dangerous type so you need to know what the triglyceride is that's what women die from when that goes up high That's usually overweight problem so these are the two numbers you need to know LDL cholesterol and triglyceride okay any questions so far you got all this understanding my

question is so when it comes to ingesting eating stuff like Omega-3s do you have to pair it with something so that it can have its benefits like I know you have to pay a trip to family carbohydrates I'm wondering I'm Wondering I have another sheet here it's in the back the minimum amount of fat needed depending on about five or six things you have to have enough fat to get the essential fatty acids okay that's those two I mentioned linoleic acid and alpha linolenic acid but that's you can get very easily in small numbers it

doesn't take much next one the amount of fat needed for absorption of the fat soluble vitamins a D e k carotenoids that's easily had okay for example there's a number of papers came out said if you don't put any fat on your salad dressing you cannot absorb very much of the beta-carotene now I use my telephone a lot so I called up the lady who had their name on that paper She says you know it's not a convenient time right now well when's a convenient time of course she gave me a time so I called

her back it still wasn't very convenient because I was asking her if you take carrot juice no fat there and you get kerosenemia that beta-carotene has been well absorbed I said how does that fit she didn't have least answer for that so You have to question some of these things now there's the long chain fat fat things that you have to have EPA and DHA now what's EP EPA epi EPA epi and this is a and it starts like this three commas in a row comes to a double bond three carbons back on three carbons

back Double bond or I guess let's see how many I have the three six nine twelve more than that so you got to go back again and then once more and you have five at the bottom c o that's sweet carbons five carbons here that's 20 carbons in a row or c-o-o-h So on epi and Penta it's it's five of these it's 20 years 20 carbons five of the double bonds now that you have to have fish for I don't want to eat fish that's for the kidney and the brains of developing brains and uh

nerves For the baby they even put some of the EPA into baby milk substitutes doctor who's the head of our studies in the Loma Linda of the Adventists Dr Fraser he got six girls all vegans didn't use any animal products he takes a needle and sticks into the buttocks pulls out a fat club yield and has it measured they had more EPA Than the regular population yes they never had fish or any Animal product so we don't know how they're getting it maybe some unusual soy products we don't know but it's exciting so you don't

have to have this as a vegetarian they are putting it in in cow's milk for infants but the people from the Food and Drug Administration thinks it might be harmful they are sure so the DHA has a even more carbons then the things that are important here I think is the particle size get your triglycerides down so these don't be the small dense site second things how how can you prevent excessive triglycerides going up in the blood if you have 50 grams Of triglyceride you better spread that fat over that fat over two meals not

just one with 15 grams it doesn't raise your clotting thing stickiness of the red cell with 15 grams but from there on it begins to increase the coagulability the clotting the red blood cells okay now let's see oh here's what I was looking for Any questions about this on the fact yeah you mentioned the fat soluble vitamins yes and they say if you don't get yourself you don't absorb it the cholesterol is floating loose in your blood isn't it I mean it's in your blood right it flows in your blood cholesterol yeah in your blood

you wouldn't need to take it in would you the cholesterol is not a fat you see you have to know the difference Between lipids and cholesterol leopards is cholesterol it's triglyceride that's fat and it's a wax we don't have wax in the body so we'll forget that one cholesterol is more like an alcohol this one here and there's these three kinds you see but that's but the doctors oftentimes interchange these two words and they Shouldn't technically lipids has to do with fats and cholesterol and that's separate from cholesterol itself so other way for them to

be absorbed if you're not taking in the oil in the salad well seek for cholesterol in the brain the brain cell makes cholesterol okay okay so to get the vitamins the adek yeah absorbed is they're naturally Occurring things in your body just through your diet that will it's the fat in the diet okay this takes care of that so you actually have to have to toast vitamins or whatever yeah yeah I don't think you have to worry about that too yeah I don't have to worry about that alone yeah I have some questions yeah about

what is the association I'm not hearing your oh remember those remember the lifestyle factors I told you about that lowers diabetes risk 88 percent see now here's our problem when the doctor sees a lady who's overweight writes a prescription you will now exercise in our everything she comes back one month later a little heavier than she was did you exercise no After you see in a thousand such women he stops telling them to exercise that's a problem we have a hard time the next big breakthrough we're going to have in health is learning how to

get people to do what we know they ought to do we don't know how to do that that's our problem we know what to tell them we know what will help them today I'm going to do it So so that's our big problem we don't know how to do that we know what they should do I'm referring to the fact that you pour on your salad dressing uh liquid like olive oil canola oil yeah well the papers came out saying that you're going to decrease your absorption of the beta-carotene if you don't have full fat

salad Dressing and I questioned it because when you drink carrot juice without any fat you get yellow skin you're absorbing it pretty well so I call these people up and ask them but it's not convenient to talk to me to get with shoes so we're practically saying it's better to have the carrot juice that the nutritionists recommend no juices we used to recommend taking juices we Don't anymore we recommend no juices for example orange juice increases your diabetes risk but a whole orange decreases it yeah there's some Fiber in here what what's that so what

is one of the healthiest foods you could just eat overall what foods overall vegetarian diet one like certain food what's that like a vegan or vegetarian Well veganism I don't use the term vegan let me explain why in England the man who started the term vegan there was nothing religious about it no religious connotation but when the man in the U.S Dr Jay dinja friend of mine I know him well stated Israel home when he started it he named his monthly paper for vegans a himself do you know what a Hampshire is I won't use

any food making money off the animal I won't use silkworms silk I won't use a leather because I'm making money off the animal see so the nutritionists in this country said we will have a new term a food vegan he's only food vegan in other words he's only talking about food not talking about leather or silk but as a Christian you still have Another problem honey honey is good prophecy a vegan can't do that according to the Hindus the Baha'i and the Baha'i says you should eat supper way before Sundown because after Sundown more of

God's insects might be flying around here you might kill some okay of course uh concerning the dietary effects I see That she even though canola sunflower sunflower corn and soybean they are lower in saturated effects those oils um very much it too processed they are even the oils that are found in most processed foods because they are extracted to solvents I believe they are highly inflammatory uh I would think that's the best bets are olive oil avocado oils even though those oils are considered very low in saturated fats I Don't think they are healthy okay

let me tell you about ah the top one there canola canola oil had a a fatty acid that tends to increase heart attack risk so they grew a whole lot of a big piece of land and pick those that had the least amount did that in a whole lot of and gradually they get that fatty acid out so that's not there anymore That was the main reason that canola had a bad reputation to start with but it doesn't anymore we don't see any problem with it now okay any other question yes years ago I was

taught to if you want to drink a fruit juice to mix it half with water so it wouldn't spike your insulin now the nutrition says don't use fruit juice at all Like orange juice increases diabetes risk but orange decreases so they're saying don't use fruit juice at all okay if you take monkeys and try to produce atherosclerosis you have a hard time doing it with the kind of atherosclerosis that we get your body makes cholesterol we get enough you don't have to have it In your diet your body makes enough okay the kind you get

from their food is oxidized you can't produce atherosclerosis very easily with monkeys using oxide unless you use oxidized cholesterol which is kind of interesting uh so you don't need any cholesterol but did you get it from eggs the embryo is breathing through the eggshell even so that's oxidized cholesterol right you Will get from the food that and not to walk more than five miles I've got multiple people that I know that's every day every day that are Ultra milers marathoners Ultra marathoners um do you yeah what I wonder if you can reference that study that

you had made it's Harvard it's the Harvard alumni study is what it's called Uh Something else I was going to say about this you know it's the protein is a problem too one out of seven people in the United States has chronic kidney disease the nephrologists are agree there's everybody in previous years had less protein in their diet we could decrease kidney disease death rate by 32 percent which is quite a bit because kidney disease once you got it It's pretty late to try to reduce the risk of dying from it so they're saying from

that standpoint vegetarian diet would be better less protein in it so that's advantage yes so as far as free fats that you add into your diet like the olive oil yes how do we align that um and which we we do use in our family But how do we align that with Ellen White's statement of fruits and vegetables free of Grease so is that you know what she meant by Greece that's what I'm wondering she meant animal fat that's what she meant by Greece but in the Spanish edition of the book they didn't report it

that way but it means animal fat in her day any other questions I have a question [Music] Yes okay question if you're vegan and you are not using any cholesterol higher cholesterol foods but your cholesterol goes up is that that your body is making its own cholesterol because it's necessary for our living your cholesterol can go up because of what your body does too it can't oxidize once it's in the body know the cholesterol that your body Makes ordinarily is not the oxidized but it can get oxidated afterwards the one that's actually may still be

dangerous but when we're trying to do atherosclerosis develop atherosclerosis and monkeys we had a difficult time doing it with pure cholesterol we had to have oxidized cholesterol in your body the kind your body makes us pure cholesterol not oxidative but it can change elevate it but it's elevated So you have a more than what is a regular you know if it's 200 plus let me tell you something most of the studies done on mortality rate and cholesterol level we're done on men not women they might have had 10 women in the group of 100 but

all the rest were men so they never did sell this on the women I asked an Adventist Doctor Who's putting people on cholesterol in San Francisco I said do you treat women the same way yes they think women are just like men and I'm a doctor I know there's a difference okay now it's interesting but when they did three studies just on women two of the three showed up to 67 higher mortality rate on the people who took the statins so I don't think women in general should Be taking them well then how about the

men they've decided that older men with higher levels do better than those with our so-called normal levels a good level so if you're 75 or older as a man they're even recommending no matter what your level is don't go on on the sentence which is kind of interesting so I have a paper on Promoting the idea of non-use of statins I put together all these things that we know about it and we don't know enough about it to say much about it hello okay so I have a question on exercise number 12 it says excess

exercise increases mortality like inactivity does so you know I've read papers on triathletes having a high incidence of a myotrophic lateral sclerosis Lou Gehrig's disease so how I'm planning to run a marathon in the future so huh do a Saturday [Music] so I think marathons are bad because we can check you afterwards and show it's damaged the muscles shot after for for the next two weeks I heard I heard oh I've read so give me a balance I know the recommendation is 30 minutes a day five days a week I know that but what's what's

extreme what's Excess and what's I know that I've also read that you should rest more than you exercise so give me a sense of where you need to be the balance where people need to be I think exercising is fine exercising is worth more in mid-age I quit my job at age 51. teaching nutrition Loma Linda I went up to North Fork but 26 Acres of woods for twenty eight thousand dollars back Into National Forest stream runs the lengths of the place it's nice okay I bought a Husqvarna chainsaw and I wish the sun would

stay up longer I made a quarter mile road from the house down to civilization and and I exercise a lot and with Alzheimer's disease there are studies that shows it's midnight Middle East well that's the time you eat more Exercise less which we shouldn't be doing that's the time we need to do the exercise rather than just when you're young or just one year old as far as Heating on whether it's heating up just a little bit or frying I assume frying is really bad with the fats but what about any type okay when you're

heating fat we don't hydrogenate in our kitchen it takes a zinc or something in the pan To to do that and we don't have it so in the kitchen you are not hydrogeny if you bring it up to the smoking point you're probably making some carcinogenic agents so the the frying in the in the oil that use the same oil over and over probably is not good now there's a Czechoslovakian Adventist nutritionist everybody goes by what he Says and he says that you should have what's he call it uh you don't refined kind of what

do you what's the trans no not the trans but I'm trying to think of the word I can't come to mind right now but anyway he thinks the good olive oil or virgin extra virgin is good see uh It has a teeny bit more of the right kinds of fats with not enough more for any study to show it's doing any good he thinks it does some good I don't think so so I don't worry about whether it's virgin oil or not yet doctor doctor could you please comment on the significance of inflammation with regards

to General Health and the reason I asked this is that Most of the alternative medicine community seems to believe that the way you encourage good health is basically to eat so you lower inflammation that's correct that's right I think it's okay heart disease we say is inflammatory disease so it's it's inflammation is a problem we want to avoid that yeah Doctor what would make a vegan a vegans LDH elevated and the triglycerides the total cholesterol LDH real HDL which one yeah the l l d l what would make it higher yeah yeah well you know

it doesn't correlate that well with heart disease that's a problem with it that's our problem we wish we had a better indicator calcium index might be Better uh but we aren't in other words for 93 percent the statins didn't do anybody any good in longevity even though they took the sentence doctor here on this side do you have any facts about the grape seed oil good or bad grape seed oil I Think she's talking about rapeseed oil rapeseed oil grape seed is a good one all right well now let's talk a little bit about your

health someone asked me after that it means doing diastorally when it's resting it doesn't expand longer not big enough to get enough blood in it even though the fraction of expels is good there wasn't enough in it to start with Diastolic dysfunction they call it so I have a little of that when I was 80 I began to get a little high blood pressure that's quite different than getting it when you're 50. quite a bit different okay so I have some problems the doctor asked me if I have had osteoporosis I said yes I have

some osteoporosis But I haven't had a fracture since I was a childhood I asked the doctor what's my chance of getting a hip fracture this next year five percent ninety five percent I won't get it 95 is bigger than the five percent [Laughter] so I I do have some problems but really not bad for my age foreign [Applause] So uh you also mentioned that uh your your brothers and you have different longevity why why do you think your longevity it's primarily different than your brothers we were always vegetarian all of us that didn't make the

difference but I quit the job in the city moved to the country and worked like mad for the chainsaw and they didn't get any of that I think that made the big difference also you worked Outdoors out there in The Sun as well yeah so and now we're learning about infrared and preserving mitochondria right a lot of that outdoor exercise is a key aspect you didn't do much gym exercises then no no outside I've been trying to teach people without using Adventist terms do useful exercise do useful exercises what's useful exercise gardening and you did

a lot of gardening you had your own garden yes on fruit trees it Wasn't my wife doing it either it was me doing it yeah do you say walking is good but let me explain something I had a Chinese Australian couple friends of ours come over and I wanted to show them around where I lived up and down and I said or can you do some up and down stuff you know oh yes we have a Tennis court in our yard we play tennis every day I was ahead with a husband and my wife was

with a lady and the daughter and I heard the daughter say to her mother mom tell them you're pooped this is no tennis court and I do think the natural ground walking is quite different yeah I think a doesn't Ellen White say something about even Physicians needing To climb Hills as far as well yes they had some lands offered us in Modesto flat don't take it she says we need the teachers to be going up and down Hills foreign yes so uh go ahead oh what about the intermittent exercise what about the intermittent exercise yeah

I think it's an intermittent fasting is Important okay I'm on two meals a day so I into intermittent fasting every day what I noticed uh I was invited to this too after Chef AJ got all those hits she invited you for a her birthday party I think it was and it was in the evening and she was surprised that when you came there you refuse to eat in the evening so uh how long have you Been doing that that intermittent fasting without eating in the evening I went on two meals a day because of what

Ellen White said I did that When the Children got old enough to know what I was doing at supper time I had to be on two meals a day or not teach them to doing and I brought up my kids on intermittent fasting now the scientists are saying the same thing today There's a scientist's down Alabama somewhere down there a dietitian PhD she's the one that started the idea of everything you're going to eat before 2 pm yeah and that's what Illinois said see but most of us hadn't done it at one time in about

1870 we had about 70 000 Adventists Ellen White went to all Academy she said I know they're all on two meals a day at one time we were but we've lost that much but it's coming back a few people are beginning to move in that direction I think it's very good for weight control it's good for sleep apnea it's good for metabolic Cycles not bouncing around too much so there's other good things about it that even Many people in the world have started talking about that now so intermittent fasting a key aspect all right we're

going to wrap things up here pretty soon but uh maybe just a couple more questions uh another question or or comment yes back here I was asking that she passed away 11 years ago about two weeks before she turned to 88. The Bachelor yep for all those years Yeah she yeah she had a pelvic fracture all right anything all right go ahead would you mind sharing your time well I get up early I'm up at four o'clock my breakfast comes at 6 30. lunch 12 30 or 1. then no more what time do you go

to bed early eight or nine o'clock I'm in bed all right another key ingredient we're learning there yes What do you eat for breakfast and recycling they want to know what what you actually eat for breakfast and lunch breakfast I do good breakfast I have give you lots of ideas on breakfast it's so good it should be the best meal of the day I even have it sometimes twice a day but you have Cooks here I like that the best I like Dry Cereal yeah I like waffles not usual waffles The kind my wife makes

healthful waffles oatmeal two cups oatmeal two cups of water two tablespoons of oil half a teaspoon of salt then it'll be a white waffle you want a brown waffle so you put a little carbohydrate half a banana a little bit of applesauce something like that I mean you get good waffles for lunch for lunch is a little harder I was eating out And the two ladies who are taking care of me are treating me like a little boy they didn't like to see me eating help so the one sister brings me lunch every day which

is pretty good uh what oh the last one I had was stuffed green pepper with rice and gluten in it I had that sweet potato I don't remember what all but it's all good stuff that they bring yeah they have a whole box of ground up flaxseed to put on my breakfast sale every morning he did tell me this his son is a physician and did a full evaluation of him recently and your son told you his estimate on how long you were going to live you want to tell them Yeah he thought it would

live to be 110. interesting all right all right one more question here thank you Dr seanbrick um since we kind of delved into nutrition and not digestion as a gastroenterologist I was wondering if you had any comments or any literature about prebiotics probiotics and fiber they're wanting it wondering what you recommend on the gut microbiome prebiotics I I think we need a lot more Research I think there's real potential here but I think we need more research before I say anything as much about it okay now I want to talk to you about too much

water I hate to say that because not many people are doing it but there was a man who didn't do a marathon he wanted to try one he heard it was going to be sunny that day so he drank about a gallon of water Before he went out and every time they handed water he drank more that's the 16 mile post he could hardly move he walked he got diarrhea he was in bad shape but he managed to cross the the end point and he went to the first aid and because he could walk in

they said he's okay So he goes back to his apartment high up and uh he thought he was feeling bad he thought he'd better drink more water so he drank more water and then suddenly he jumped up near and crashed in coma the air lifted him to the hospital they thought he must be dehydrated so they gave him IV Saline when he got to the hospital he found he had a low Sodium level you see that makes the brain swell and so he was in coma four days he doesn't do but he doesn't do these

marathons anymore but it's quite interesting and I had my secretary from TB unit emailed me one day she said my blood sodium is low how many potato chips should I eat I said it's not a matter of potato chips it's a matter of cutting down your water Liquid how much do you use well she says I eat them you drink about 10 glasses a day plus of course my coffee and tea and my Cola drinks and so she cut down her liquid and her blood sodium was okay the next time I got sick I knew

I should drink water I drank only nine cups my blood sodium was low I'd had one ordered for me before I was ill and I went and had it done and it Was a point lowering it should be all right one final question here in the front I love supplements supplements vitamins well you know we have a National Institute of Health sectional supplements you know what they recommend don't use them for example we thought beta carrot is so good they thought these smokers should get it They gave it to them increase the risk of of

lung cancer and they died sooner and they are afraid that these supplements we don't know enough about we haven't done enough studies they said don't take them to try to reduce cancer risk that's what they're saying even vitamin C though vitamins b c would be safest you know we take a lot of it and most of it's excreted that's why we have the Healthiest toilets in the world B12 gets excreted pretty fast too but one thing you should know if you're total vegetarian you need to take B12 okay you need to know that and then

you need to think about are you getting enough calcium also V3 see now there's three ways to get your calcium naturally okay you you get the salt cut your salt intake in Half that controls the excretion of the calcium from the kidneys and the reabsorption it's like taking 900 milligram tablet of calcium every day if you cut yourself second thing you do is make sure your vitamin D blood levels are good because that has to do with the absorption of the D if you have adequate levels you will absorb two to three times more calcium

than you would Otherwise the third thing is don't count the calcium in the foods that have a lot of oxalic acid or phytic acid because it forms an insoluble salt that you can't absorb turmeric now well there's uh there's still a lot more people wanting to ask questions so okay comment okay thank you thank you chef and I've been learning to be a vegan Chef right I have I have a lot of questions I'd like to Pick your brain forever but I'm sure you have a lot of written work that I could look up to

so I just wanted to thank you for that so appreciate it but these simple things like getting more calcium I think are important our people could know what to do take iron what about coffee one cup of tea decreases iron absorption compared to one cup of water by 60 percent a cup of Coffee decreases it by 50 a cup of milk because of the of the calcium in it decreases at 50 percent so we need to know simple little things that we can do to help something I had a lady in Bangladesh she had lost

four babies she was pregnant now again afraid she was going to lose her weight what should I do I said stop drinking your English tea they all tea drinkers over there She and that'd be like taking it calcium tablet all right two more burning ones here how is your son and what health is he in she wants to know what the health of your physician son is he in good health he's in good health he's too fat how old is he whose old are you he's about 74. but he needs to kept on his weight

but otherwise he's doing well Does that include decaffeinating tea when you said I'm about cutting back on T you're talking about caffeinated tea right not herbal tea English tea yeah yeah it's the caffeinated teeth now I I was in Czech Republic the other day and I was in this town where they had two universities one was a public health University I spoke at both the same day and I was tipped off that in the public Health University there was a man who's going to ask me about coffee so I was ready for him he was

very pleasant I said there's three reasons that you shouldn't drink coffee the first reason is the people or your first reason is no medical organization recommends coffee for anything second reason is The group that lives the longest doesn't drink coffee and recommends people not do it Adventist vegetarian and the third reason is everybody agrees with this that during pregnancy women should not take any drug that includes coffee I can give you a lot of the reasons there's another reason one cup of coffee compared to a cup of water increased the nitrates converted to nitrosamines carcinogenic

substance Tenfold that's another reason in regards to coconut milk coconut butter does that increase cholesterol if you're eating it every day if you're on an island where all they have is coconut oil like Fiji there's more heart attacks more diabetes see but if you only want to use coconut milk to cook or rice someday to make it taste quite different do it that's not going To worry about one one time do you have the microphone yeah back to Olive Oil my usual salad dressing is olive oil and a little squeeze of lemon [Music] but I

also like olive oil on other parts of my food how much is too much How much olive oil is too much olive oil uh I don't think I'm going to worry about getting too much olive oil but Olive oil is okay avocado is okay that's the yellow line on that chart so that's good and you see what the avocados did they did real well unless it increases your BMI right that's right nine grams per yeah you don't want to get too fat calories per gram yeah comment on tofu we are good and bad October all

right what about soy and tofu okay I had a lot of people talk about that in my lecture on January 26th tofu is good we used to worry about breast cancer in women so they went to Japan and China checked all the women who had breast cancer in one breast check their diets and waited to see who got breast cancer in the other rest the ones who ate the most tofu has the least recurrence So they've stopped worrying about the estrogenic effect of tofu it's so small compared to what OBGYN person will give a woman

a prescription for tofu so small what about men in their breasts and tofu all right you know we try to raise chickens again to fatter so they put estrogen in the pellets in the neck of the chicken now if you ate the neck of a chicken Without peeling yeah you get too much estrogen but otherwise you wouldn't so I I'm not I TOEFL I think is a better food than most of us think I would recommend 100 grams one quarter of those boxes every day now see we aren't using the tofu like they do in

Japan they don't guess breast cancer over there another thing you've got to think about you ladies this breast cancer problem Alcohol is a problem increasing breast cancer risk okay lack of eye then is a problem people don't realize that's the breasts has a cabbage on the eye down just like the thyroid does we just think only thyroid but the breast does too and so if people get if I brought the fibroid things in their breasts they're treating it with iodine where do we get iodine Well we can get it in milk you know why because

the milk the cow's teeth are scrub clean with an eye to eye solution but iodine is in the salt if you're not using any salt then you're not going to get much okay have you heard correlation between too much tofu and reducing your Testosterone levels for men doing what will will too much tofu cause your testosterone to go down no I don't think you're gonna have I don't think you're going to have any problem with that well uh Dr scharfenberg it's been great to have you here at Weimar University and we would like to invite

you back you're an encyclopedia of uh of all sorts of nutrition and other information And we just want to praise the Lord for your long and productive life and the positive impact you've had on many and I know you're going to have a greater impact even as you continue to live and and preach Christ's message of health and health reform to the world any final sentence or two for Weimar I'm excited about teaching our children getting them prepared for the last days I'm really excited about that Let's let's pray Father in heaven we thank you

so much for giving us life and giving it abundantly we thank you for the health that you've given Dr scharfenberg and also the mind to be able to remind us and the messages you gave your servant and as he has mentioned today the more he lives the more he realizes the great confidence that we can have in your Prophets believe your prophets so shall you be Established so we pray that we might trust more in you and in the messages you've given us through your prophets in Jesus name we pray amen amen I'd like to

mention in the Philippines I took students into a little island there today 60 of the Islanders are Seventh-day Adventists that's what the health message did politio next to case on We taught gardening the kids were eight to ten inches too short I got pictures of all this and uh they should have been taller we had to teach gardening the governor of the province made a rule all schools must teach gardening because so a tour for for those interested in the tour and an updated tour of Weimar it'll be 10 minutes from now right here at

Haskell Hall Dr Martin do you want to Stand up Dr Martin is going to be starting out your tour you'll have two tour guides and he'll uh do the first part of the tour and then we'll have a second part of the tour where does the second part begin Erica yeah they'll be following Dr Martin before you get to the second part so it can start here in 10 minutes thank you