AMEN 2017: Are You Willing?

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

Breakout Session B

Eddie Ramirez

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Chad Kreuzer

Fadia Kreuzer

The Gut-Brain Connection With Happiness, Depression, and Anxiety

James Tarin

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Brad Emde

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Heavenly Father, thank you for the opportunity to study your Word and to study science.

I pray that your Holy Spirit would guide us.

We're going to start with something that many of you have heard about in, we're going to talk about, to begin with on the gut-brain connection.

In the Bible, you have the first area of the gut-brain connection that I know of or the first place spoken of is in the book of Daniel.

And you may have seen this before, but there's a book called The History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts.

And in this book, it says that Daniel chapter 1 is possibly the first clinical trial in all of recorded history.

And it says here, this is from the United States National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, the most well-funded medical institution on the planet, something like $26 billion budget every single year.

We see here talking about the evolution of clinical research, a history before and beyond by James Lind.

And in this article it says the world's first clinical trial is recorded in the book of Daniel in the Bible.

We're gonna do a quick overview, and most of you know it, so we're not going into any detail.

But you may remember the story in Daniel chapter 1.

Daniel's taken from Babylon, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and he goes into a three-year educational system whereby the king gives him his best food in the kingdom, which would have been probably a standard Babylonian diet, you know, a standard, probably animal-based diet with a mixture of maybe unclean foods or what the Jews would later on call common foods.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank.

Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself." There were certain things that Daniel knew he was not to eat, And so he said, I'm sorry, I can't do this.

And so Daniel, this is where we have the first test in Daniel chapter 1, verse 12, where it says, prove thy servants or test your servants.

This is that first clinical trial that we know of in all of recorded history.

It says, prove thy servants I beseech thee 10 days and let them give us pulse to eat and water to drink.

And we know that pulse are simply things that are grown from seeds.

So Daniel and his friends go on a plant-based diet.

What is the result of this diet he went on in Daniel chapter 1 verse 18 to 20, it says, Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar, and the king communed with them, and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

And in all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them, he found them 10 times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.

So what happened here is that Daniel and his friends as they changed their diet what is taking place within their diet which is affecting their guts seems to be actually impacting their brain.

Very, very fascinating And who would have guessed that this has actually been replicated in our day?

I'm going to show you a video clip here, just 1 second.

But the main thing that folks should be concerned about is how long you live and how likely you are to get disease.

There have been 3 major studies published on this subject, big meta-analyses.

And these meta-analyses, and only 3 big ones have been published, they show consistently that low-carb diets, in other words, low-plant food diets, high-animal food diets, consistently they show that they're associated with more heart disease and more death, more mortality.

If you look around the world and you look at these people in the blue zones, the average percentage of calories from carbs ranges from about 50% to about 80%.

Carbs are not the enemy, refined carbs are the enemy.

There have been a number of recent studies Dr.

First she did an observational study showing that plant-based diet actually significantly improves your depression and anxiety stress score.

So the mood actually is improved when you get the right amount of carbohydrates, but also the right type of carbohydrates and less protein.

Then she followed up with an interventional study, and that's where she took people who are not on a plant-based diet and put them on a plant-based diet for 2 weeks.

She also put them on a plant-based diet plus fish for 2 weeks to see which 1 would be superior.

And it turned out the fish diet wasn't any more superior than the carnivore diet.

But the plant-based diet, significant, dramatic changes, statistically significant changes in just 2 weeks in their mental ability.

We see when people go on this diet and drink plenty of water, get plenty of rest, follow these natural remedies that they, it's just like something snaps in their brain and it doesn't take like weeks or months.

Plant-based diet is key in our program for depression and anxiety recovery.

The results are outstanding because it's a comprehensive approach, not just diet.

We also utilize exercise and we're utilizing correct thoughts in a lot of different modalities.

I went on a plant-based diet about 5 weeks ago.

It's amazing because I even if they had had not told me he had the diet change the first thing I noticed was he was bringing his schoolwork in.

And my teacher has actually been bragging on how much better I've been behaving since I've been on the diet.

In class he wasn't getting as distracted, that he was paying attention, he was able to listen more closely, he was being alert, His discernment was better, he was more diligent, everything.

I can pay attention more, my mind is more clear since I've been on the diet.

And I also noticed he lost a lot of weight, I mean, but The main things I noticed was behavior.

A study in a middle school has showed clearly that switching the menu from animal source to plant source diet almost eliminated absenteeism, increased and enhanced attention and homework performance and performance at school.

It almost eliminated acts of violence as well as teen pregnancies.

And so they just feel better everywhere the blood flows, everywhere that perfect circulation goes, they feel better.

And every single day since I've been on a plant-based diet, the clarity continues to increase.

And my face continues to look younger and my body feels like I look more vibrant.

I've looked at pictures of myself before and after and I look 5 years older, even just 10 months ago than I do now.

What we eat does get turned into neurotransmitters.

It actually helps us or hurts us depending on what we're eating in regards to our brain chemistry and it plays a vital role in health of the brain.

They'll say within 3 or 4 days they seem to have clarity, they're alert, they listen in class better, they absorb more And they do better on their tests.

In fact, diet alone, studies show that diet alone will reduce your depression and anxiety scores by half just by dramatically changing your diet to a plant-based.

Now, we go for more than just half, and so that's why we have a whole program that includes more than this.

But just the diet alone will make a big difference.

You don't have to choose between high quality living and longevity.

It's the same program, the same new start approach to living, helps you live longer and it helps you live better.

Alright, wasn't that, were you all able to hear it?

How these young people's lives were changed.

And that 1 young man that we recorded, it was just 5 weeks.

And it changed his performance in school, his behavior.

So we're seeing this gut brain connection is really clear.

We saw that, Chad said, in the book of Daniel.

It worked for Daniel and his friends and now in today's age we're seeing it work also for young people today or not just young people but young and old alike.

So what is it about this gut brain connection that is so intriguing, right?

I mean, anywhere you go, people are just like, I want to know more about this gut brain connection.

Do you know the Bible, not only in the book of Daniel understood this connection, but also in Lamentations 120, it says, Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled.

And you know, we laugh at that because I think we're so disconnected today with our mind and our bodies that we just think that's funny but they really I think understood that they understood the connection Jeremiah 419 says my bowels my bowels I am pained at my very heart wow how interesting and science is proving these things Did you know that approximately 90% of the information that goes between the vagus nerve and the brain, from the gut to the brain, through the vagus nerve, 90% of it is from the gut to the brain and not the opposite.

So whatever is going on down here has a big influence on what's going on up here.

And you're going to start to see why this is such an important connection.

Not only the Bible, but the spirit of prophecy tells us something very interesting.

And had we read this quote a number of years ago, we would have scoffed at it.

But today cutting edge science is showing us that it is true.

It says the abuses of the stomach by the gratification of the appetite are a fruitful source of what?

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