Our bodies were miraculously designed for survival, so why are so many people unhealthy?
On today’s episode of the Health Quest podcast, Dr. Sal is talking about the profound connection between our health and aligning our choices with God’s will. As a practicing doctor and surgeon with 30 years of experience, Dr. Sal’s insights shed light on the miraculous nature of our bodies and the impact of our daily decisions on our well-being.
He addresses the changes in our food industry over the years, underlining the significance of consuming natural and authentic foods to support our health. Dr. Sal also emphasizes the role of God’s will in guiding our choices and the importance of making mindful decisions to transform our health for the better.
From the impact of biochemical reactions to the role of diet and lifestyle choices, Dr. Sal provides valuable insights into achieving and maintaining good health.
Key takeaways:
1. Our bodies are intricately designed by God to function in miraculous ways, with each cell capable of 100,000 reactions. This design enables us to fight diseases, adapt to stress, and maintain good health.
2. The modern diet has been influenced by industrialization and genetic modifications, leading to the consumption of processed and unhealthy food. Dr. Sal emphasizes the importance of returning to natural, unprocessed foods and being mindful of food choices.
3. The power of choice is a crucial element in achieving good health. By aligning our will with God’s, we can make responsible and healthy decisions for ourselves and our families.
4. Dr. Sal advocates for a holistic approach to health, integrating dietary changes, weight management, exercise, and supplement use. He emphasizes the need to constantly evaluate the role of God in our daily lives and align our actions with His will.
5. While conventional medicine has its role, particularly in acute situations, Dr. Sal emphasizes the profound impact of lifestyle changes, including diet and exercise, in managing and even reversing health conditions, such as high blood pressure. He encourages co-creating with God to achieve and maintain good health.
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Dr. Sal [00:00:00]:
If you think that God is this outside source that you think that you can live the way you want to, everything falls apart. All of a sudden, you're calling on this outside force when everything was right here. Welcome to the Health Quest podcast, your guide to God's will for good health. Hello. My name is doctor Sal, and I've been a practicing doctor and surgeon for, well, for 30 years. And my goal for each episode is that you'll be able to have your mind transformed to God's design for good health as well as affect the way that you eat and the way that you live. If you're new here, we release a new episode every week. And if you enjoy the content, would you please leave us a good review? It really helps our ratings and allows our show to reach out to more people and in turn, help more people change their lives.
Dr. Sal [00:01:06]:
We'd like to thank you for your support. And on today's episode, we're gonna be talking about what's it gonna take. Because if you're doing the things the way they're supposed to be done, God created our bodies magnificently. And, you know, there have been complaints, you know, for people saying that, well, you know, you get a little too medically involved. Because when I ask you what once in a while as health, once in a month, why are you 30, 40 pounds overweight? That shouldn't happen. What why are you on these medications? That shouldn't be happening. All these biochemical reactions that take place in our body and they happen all in an instance is not something that happened by chance. There's no way.
Dr. Sal [00:01:52]:
Now I'm basically stating, Albert Einstein, that all of this creation could not have happened by chance, and the way our bodies work are so miraculous. We talked about our body being made up of 70 to a 100 trillion cells in each sal. Each cell, there's a 100,000 reactions that sal up my fingers. All these biochemical reactions that are taking place that god perfectly made so that we could fight diseases, so that we can get through stressful times, so that we could get through changes in extreme temperatures. The we can actually get through with days without eating food, which actually helps to improve our health. If we go on lower restricted calorie diets, if we eliminate the extra wheat, which is not, you know, which is now genetically modified, staying away the trans fats, which the industrial revolution, came up with so as to preserve food on the shelves. But we don't need that anymore because of the fact that, hey, you're gonna get some nut butter. Get the natural one that doesn't have the hydrogenated oils.
Dr. Sal [00:03:04]:
If it's sitting on your shelf for 6 months, shame on you. You should be able to buy it, eat it within the next 2 weeks, and be done with it. When you're ready to buy more, then that's when you buy more. So again, going back to the comparison and contrast. In the in the Course of Miracles, Jesus said there's no limit to the power of a son of God. Be he can limit the expression of his power as much as he chooses. Again, the power of choice that god gave us, and either we have the power to say, I'm gonna limit the power by giving into the stuff that I know is stuff that I'm not supposed to eat. Your mind and mine can unite, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do.
Dr. Sal [00:03:59]:
That's why the objective of my podcast is to get your will aligned with god to literally have got work in you. The altar is here, not up in the sky. Okay? If you think that you can go on through life doing whatever you want, not paying attention because you're unconscious or you're asleep, Jesus says forgive them for they know not what they do. Well, come on. That was 2000 years ago. At what point are we gonna wake up? What's it gonna take for us to wake up and be conscious and to implement and use the power of God to say no until I get myself into a healthy state. Now you gotta remember something here, folks. If you were taking your date out in 1957 for a scoop of ice cream, It had real sugar in it.
Dr. Sal [00:04:49]:
It real cream. It didn't have all these fillers. It didn't have colorings. I mean, it was just basic chocolate and vanilla and maybe strawberry, and that was about it. They didn't have all of these all these different flavorings and all the stuff that they put in there. Come on. I mean, you got more colors and you got more flavors than you ever can imagine. And my point being is is that when you did that, it was a once in a while thing.
Dr. Sal [00:05:17]:
1957, McDonald's was not a a chain restaurant. There were only a handful of them. And at that time, even McDonald's sal lard to fry their fries in up until 1968, and then they're now using a trans fat cooking oil made out of soybeans. So in and of itself, we start to see all these changes. Now you see but lard, isn't that bad for you? If you're using the animal lard from the animals, that's better than the lard that you see at the stores now because if you take a look at the ingredients and the lard that they sell at the markets, those have hydrogenated oils in them now too. So even the lard isn't good for you anymore. The the point that I'm trying to get here is that if you think that God is this outside source that you think that you can live the way you want to, everything falls apart. All of a sudden, you're calling on this outside force when everything was right here.
Dr. Sal [00:06:14]:
And when you do that, that's kind of a communist mentality where you think that government should make everybody's decision and tell us what to do, and if we follow it, we're gonna have this perfect society. That's not how you bring heaven on earth. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The only way that's gonna happen is not God's gonna come down and part the Red Sea, and that's how it happens. He relies on his children to get the job done. Okay? Many are called and few are chosen. Who are the ones who are chosen? The ones that get the stuff done.
Dr. Sal [00:06:55]:
The ones who follow his ways of hey. This is what you have to do to be health. Because what ends up happening with that is we're just talking about 1 subject matter here, folks, but then it gets translated into how you manage your finances, how you manage your family, how you manage your household, how you manage the community, how you manage the state. It all starts to build on itself. That's why our country is falling apart that everybody's complaining about the way things are because we're the ones creating that. Of course, we allow government to come in with a and impose all the, you know, these rules and regulations. But the fact of the matter is is that just because they say it's okay to eat this food and we say that it's safe, it doesn't mean that it's good for you. It may not it may be safe to eat that one moment, but if you keep eating that over a long period of time and I use the cigarette smoking as an example.
Dr. Sal [00:07:51]:
Yeah. You can have a cigarette today. You can even smoke a pack today. But if you keep doing that for the next 30 years, what do you think is gonna happen? And that's what I'm trying to say is is that, you know, all this quest of food that we don't need, and, of course, overabundance leads to, self destruction because of the fact that, you know, we don't need all this food that we hit out there. I mean, you go to a gas station or a party store, look at all the stuff that you can buy that really isn't good for you. That's all processed. That's all processed food. You know, going back and and having 3 good meals a day, reducing the calories, 3 smaller meals.
Dr. Sal [00:08:31]:
And even if you wanna snack on something, snack some nuts, which are healthy fats for you, or some some berries. And folks, be careful even when you buy a package in in a gas station because you gotta take a look at the oils, the amount of salt that they put in, and sometimes some kind of preservative as well. So, again, what's it gonna take? Why is it that people can't see this? Well, because the food tastes good. Well, guess what, folks? Like doctor William Davis said in one of our previous podcast, if you can get through the withdrawal and you start eating healthy, guess what? If you've done it as many years as I have, the food that people say, well, that doesn't taste good or, know, I like the flavor of a of a Big Mac. The flavor of Big Mac doesn't impress me anymore. I don't have a craving for it. And so my point being is is that you start eating healthy and after a while, and we talked about this in the previous podcast, you realign your neural networks. You change yourself.
Dr. Sal [00:09:40]:
This is how the Holy Spirit is working through you. You're modifying your whole physiology, your whole biology, the whole neural network. And before you know it, you don't care to eat this stuff anymore because you've been eating so healthy, you feel better. Your mind is clear. You've got more energy. You have less pain. You're sleeping better at night. You're able to handle stress a lot.
Dr. Sal [00:10:03]:
We begin to see now that these so called New Year's resolution always fail because we are not aligning ourselves and allowing God to work through us. We are not walking with God. We are not being as Jesus is. We are not adapting ourselves to saying, you know what? I am the son or the daughter of God and I have this power, and I have to use it wisely. I have to use it responsibly for the sake of my health and for the benefit of my family and those around me. This is what's key. Physicians, we are trained conventionally that you come in with a disorder and we give you a prescription to take a drug. Now I don't have issues with conventional medicine in the acute state.
Dr. Sal [00:10:56]:
If your blood pressure is so high that you're about to have a stroke, we gotta get you on medications to get that blood pressure down. If it's elevated, there are people such as doctor, William Davis. There's doctor, Mark Houston, who I took his course a few weeks ago at the American Academy of Anti Aging Medicine at the annual conference, and he was a nutritionist before he went to medical school. Then he went to medical school, and now he's his cardiologist, and he has a hypertensive, clinic hypertension clinic in Nashville, Tennessee. And he says you can have bad hypertension, and he says 90% of hypertension is genetics because there is a and we see that, commonly within, the black Americans where, you know, over 50% of them have high blood pressure, which is hereditary. He said, but we might start you off on 4 medications. But as a nutritionist, he alters your diet. He alter he gives you supplements to take.
Dr. Sal [00:11:57]:
He gets he'll lose the weight. And he says within 9 months, I can get you down to one medication that you may have to take because of your genetic background. But other than that, a majority can be treated just by the way you eat and by the way you live your lifestyle. So my point being here, folks, is that God gave us the power to cocreate with him, but our minds have to be in alignment with God's mind and God's will, and we have to do what he says. You know, Lord, Lord, and Jesus you could sal, Lord, Lord, all you want, but unless you do God's will, you're not getting into heaven. That's Jesus' words, baby. That's what Jesus said. You know, you can't just say, oh, I got this and I got that.
Dr. Sal [00:12:45]:
No. No. No. No. Oh, the government's gonna take care of it take care of everything. I'll just leave it in God's hands. I've heard that from some of my patients, and then they're coming back crawling and begging and saying, oh, you gotta help me. I can only give you guidance.
Dr. Sal [00:12:58]:
You have to do what you're supposed to do to get yourself in better shape, in a better condition. And so it's important that we start thinking not today, not at the beginning of the year, but every single day of our life, where does God play a role in my life? And the objective is is that activity. Okay? The mind plants the seed in the heart, which is the emotions. It gets revved up. It gets excited. And then it delivers its child, which is activity. And if you use that, you can't just think and and imagine, you know, these new age thinkers. Oh, you could sit there and meditate, and you can imagine it.
Dr. Sal [00:13:50]:
Yes. But if you don't act on it, you're not bringing it into the, you know, three-dimensional, physical world. It's not gonna happen. And that's just in with your body, you know. And it's not just about going to the gym. Hey. You can go to the gym all you want. I knew a couple of guys many, many years ago, and they were taking anabolic steroids and bench pressing 400 pounds, and they were bragging about, oh, we went to the baseball game, and I had, you know, I had 12 hot dogs and 6 beers.
Dr. Sal [00:14:21]:
That's why they looked like crap. You know, they were just big and strong, but that doesn't mean that they're healthy. And so this is my point. 85% of your health is what you eat. Get yourself where you get to the weight that you should be at. You'll start feeling better by the diet that you've been consuming, whether it's starting off with the, Atkins diet, the the, the ketogenic diet, the paleo diet, which I think is the best, the Mediterranean diet. And once in a while, I'm saying once you get to that point, read the labels, try to get more of a natural ice cream that has real cane sugar, try to get a cereal that has real cane sugar, because when the government introduced and allowed these manufacturers to use corn syrup, that really started messing things up. Get things that are more natural that contain no trans fatty acids.
Dr. Sal [00:15:15]:
Be careful how you read the labels that says 0 trans fat. It may be 0 trans fat on the shelf. But when you consume it, like canola oil, soybean oil, and corn oil, which is your vegetable oil, these get converted into trans fats in the body. Stick with things that are more olive oil, avocado oil, some of your nut oils like almond oil, sunflower seed oil. These are actually healthier for you. And so, you cut just cutting out those sugars and those those trans fats, you're gonna improve your health. You start to take some of the supplements that we talked about, some of the antioxidants, and get quest for an exercise activity once you get to the desired weight. That means even if you lose if you gotta lose a 120 pounds.
Dr. Sal [00:16:07]:
Once you lose a 120 pounds, then say, okay. I'm gonna have 1 cheap meal a week quest, you know, make certain that I keep myself under control and I don't go back to putting on the 50, 80, or a £100 back again. That's really the key objective. And that way you could say, look, I'm gonna do that as a treat. But then again, like I said, get something that's made, that's real, that's authentic. Getting cakes and pies at your local grocery store. I'm telling you, they just read the labels, and you'll see there's words on there that you can't even pronounce versus having somebody who made it at home with a good quality wheat. They use real sugar.
Dr. Sal [00:16:48]:
They use a healthier oil. These are the ways that we change our lives, living it in alignment with God's will, and then bringing forth quest overall good health and starting to feel better about ourselves. And you start to eventually see how God really creates miracles in our lives, and he does it through us. So I wanna thank you for joining us on today's show, and forgive me for for these hiccups that I've had. I've been trying to get rid of them. But if you enjoyed this episode, please be sure should you leave us a good review, and visit our website and connect with us more on our social media accounts. If you happen to have any questions regarding your health regarding this episode, my email will be in the description below, and I'll be more than happy to answer any questions. We do carry a lot of, sources, and the sources are all, scientific either from science journals or medical journals in the research.
Dr. Sal [00:17:51]:
And you generally give a a list of that for every episode, but a lot of stuff that I talked about today, you could see it in pretty much a lot of the other other episodes that I presented before in the past. With that, I'd like to thank you so much for joining us. I'm doctor Sal. Have a great day, and god bless.