Dale Partridge - Christ in Chronic Illness Pt. 3： A Biblical Lifestyle for Healing

00:00:00.000 Welcome to this episode of Real Christianity. My name is Dale Partridge. Today, we are here

00:00:23.900 Also with Trevor West, we are finishing our series.

00:00:28.640 This is actually episode number three of a four-part series on finding Christ and chronic illness.

00:00:33.140 If you haven't listened to episode number one or number two yet, check it out.

00:00:37.100 We talked about suffering and a theology of suffering and my story about chronic illness.

00:00:42.900 Today, we're going to be talking about finding Christ and chronic illness.

00:00:45.980 Part three, a biblical lifestyle for healing.

00:00:49.520 And so we want to figure out what that looks like.

00:00:51.400 I think Trevor and I know a bit.

00:00:53.900 about that yeah we've uh we both had our own journeys uh me over the past 10 years give or

00:01:00.700 take you for the last three to four years yeah and you know there's uh you know how can we heal

00:01:07.500 the most naturally yeah uh ways possible right you've given up uh all painkillers i have um

00:01:16.860 because the painkillers were essentially ruining your gut which was contributing to the the crohn's

00:01:22.860 disease. Crohn's and celiac that I had. So yeah. Yeah. And this guy has crazy headaches for years

00:01:28.140 and won't take Tylenol or Motrin. It's a lot of fun. Like he'll fight like through like a,

00:01:33.440 I'll look at him and it looks like he just got in a fight. Yeah. Like a, like a level 10 headache

00:01:36.980 with no Motrin because of that. Thankfully those have been fewer and farther between. Yeah. With

00:01:42.580 like as of the last two months. Yeah. So yeah. Praise God. Yeah. And so just to kind of start

00:01:49.960 off before we get some questions going. One thing I want to remind you guys is that we have to learn

00:01:54.660 how to lean on the promises of God instead of the presence of a spiritual feeling. This is

00:02:01.180 something that suffering is required. This is required of suffering. When you're in the midst

00:02:06.620 of suffering, you need to learn how to not take how you feel and make it the arbiter of

00:02:14.740 spiritual truth

00:02:17.120 right

00:02:17.660 because

00:02:18.240 you need to

00:02:20.120 rely on scripture

00:02:21.100 because your feelings

00:02:22.660 your body

00:02:23.280 will lie to you

00:02:24.440 will create

00:02:25.700 an alternative

00:02:26.920 narrative to scripture

00:02:28.060 and so you

00:02:29.700 you want to

00:02:30.600 understand that

00:02:31.320 suffering is deeply

00:02:32.460 theological

00:02:33.020 right

00:02:33.620 and

00:02:34.680 for that reason

00:02:36.620 we should have a theology

00:02:37.520 of suffering

00:02:38.000 before we suffer

00:02:38.960 as we've said this

00:02:39.800 many times before

00:02:40.780 so anyways

00:02:41.820 on that note

00:02:42.460 let's just go ahead

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00:02:43.480 okay

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00:02:44.740 question one why should christians be informed about the health of their physical bodies yeah so

00:02:52.820 i'm going to take this at a couple different angles um one of them is the sixth commandment

00:02:58.980 requires us to preserve life sixth commandment is do not murder um and it really implies that

00:03:05.060 there is a value of life that essentially that god is our maker we're made in his image

00:03:10.020 uh, that we, we essentially don't have the authority to destroy the body because we weren't

00:03:15.120 the ones that created the body. Uh, we can't take life in the sense of murdering, taking innocent

00:03:19.880 life, uh, because, which is different than killing. I'm not going to get into that right now.

00:03:24.580 Um, but it's something that is a very important distinction. So just by the sixth commandment

00:03:29.320 alone, we go, okay, life, physical life. We know that we can't adjust the, the, the death or life

00:03:36.080 of a soul. Only God can do that. And so the sixth commandment is for us to realize that

00:03:40.520 we should preserve physical life. So right there is just an implication of theology of

00:03:45.520 your life physically matters to God and we should preserve ours and others to the glory of God and

00:03:53.560 to the betterment of the world. Amen. The Westminster larger catechism question 136 says,

00:04:00.120 what are the sins forbidden in the sixth commandment? And the answer, and I've kind of

00:04:04.940 summed it up, you know, because it's longer than this, but I'll just give you portions of it. It

00:04:09.600 says the sins forbidden in the sixth commandment are all taking away the life of ourselves or of

00:04:15.340 others, except in the case of public justice, lawful war, or necessary defense, the neglecting

00:04:20.960 or withdrawing the lawful and necessary means of preservation of life, sinful anger, hatred,

00:04:27.060 envy, desire of revenge, all excessive passions, distracting cares. Now pay attention here,

00:04:32.280 immoderate use of meat, drink, labor, and recreations,

00:04:38.240 and whatsoever else tends to the destruction of life of any, end quote.

00:04:44.480 So it's interesting that it throws in consumption as a category for taking away life,

00:04:54.680 meaning that you need to actually preserve your life by not drinking yourself to death

00:04:58.860 or by not, you know, eating yourself to death

00:05:02.180 or by literally laying down and dying

00:05:06.020 because, you know, it's a slow death

00:05:08.180 of essentially an addiction to leisure, right?

00:05:13.060 So there's-

00:05:13.760 Which I think our culture is very prone to.

00:05:16.840 Yeah, we are lazy.

00:05:20.100 And on top of that, we sit behind a computer all day.

00:05:22.540 Right.

00:05:23.300 And so we need to avoid, you know, those things.

00:05:27.580 In moderate drinking, in moderate eating, in moderate laziness and, you know, not overworking either, you know, working yourself to death.

00:05:36.920 I remember hearing, I think it was in Japan where they were having people that were working so hard, young men, that they were dying from heart attacks in their 20s on trains because they were so, I mean, working, you know, 100 hour weeks back to back to back to back.

00:05:50.960 And so another angle of why you need to care about your physical body without us becoming the self-loved people is that God didn't just redeem your soul.

00:06:06.460 He also redeemed your body.

00:06:07.780 We talked about this in the last couple of sermons that I've been delivering at church.

00:06:11.780 1 Corinthians 6, 19 through 20 says,

00:06:15.920 Or do you not know that the body, that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?

00:06:21.840 You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.

00:06:25.840 So glorify God in your body, end quote.

00:06:28.600 So there's just a category.

00:06:30.140 I think we over-spiritualize Christianity.

00:06:33.200 We turn it into like basically, what's the category of people that think that one, that the material is bad and the spiritual is good?

00:06:46.780 There's a category of people, Gnostic.

00:06:48.940 There you go. 1.00

00:06:49.560 Got it in my brain.

00:06:51.740 My church history teacher was James White.

00:06:55.780 And so I could just see him looking at me with his white beard.

00:06:57.740 He's probably just laughing at you.

00:06:58.920 Yeah, angry.

00:06:59.140 so the the problem that i have with with this view is that it's very gnostic it views

00:07:06.400 that only your soul is valuable to god you know again that c.s lewis quote it's like

00:07:11.660 uh you are not uh your body you you are a soul but you have a body you know something like that

00:07:19.040 yeah and i i think again he's right like you you are your soul however i i just don't think that

00:07:25.680 you can disconnect the soul from the body as any meaningful way,

00:07:29.480 because God died for both because he doesn't just resurrect your soul.

00:07:34.200 He also resurrects your body at the return,

00:07:37.820 the final return of Christ.

00:07:39.280 And so,

00:07:39.520 right.

00:07:40.040 Yeah.

00:07:40.240 Our,

00:07:40.500 our spiritual resurrection will not happen apart from our bodily

00:07:45.200 resurrection.

00:07:46.260 Yeah,

00:07:46.460 exactly.

00:07:46.980 They're,

00:07:47.400 they're,

00:07:47.840 they're two separate actions that essentially will be restored together

00:07:52.300 at one point in history.

00:07:54.660 And so,

00:07:55.380 yeah,

00:07:55.480 There is going to be some sort of disembodied time period where you're, you know, to live as Christ, to die as gain or to be absent from the body is to be present from the Lord.

00:08:05.100 So we know there's going to be some sort of absence there.

00:08:07.320 But what does it look like, you know, in the intermediate state between, you know, you dying and the return of Christ?

00:08:14.520 We don't know a lot about that.

00:08:16.060 However, but when Christ returns, our souls will be rejoined to our bodies.

00:08:19.700 Our bodies will be resurrected new.

00:08:21.640 And so God just cares about your body, essentially, is what we're saying here.

00:08:24.700 The other thing is first Corinthians 10 31 says, so whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. So, I mean, everything should be done to the glory of God. And so I think that people want to divorce consumption or exercise or care for their body from the spiritual life, because we have verses in the scripture that, you know, Paul's saying like, Hey, you know, physical training is like of little value compared to spiritual training.

00:08:54.020 Like he's, he's using a, like a form of speech to make a really important point.

00:08:59.240 He's not saying like, go be fat and overweight and, you know, take pharmaceuticals and, you know, just not care about your body.

00:09:08.320 That's not what he's saying.

00:09:08.920 He's like, no, it's a comparative difference.

00:09:11.000 Yeah.

00:09:11.260 Like I admit that there's some value in taking care of your physical body, but it's nothing to be compared.

00:09:17.000 If you're going to ignore your spiritual wellbeing is what Paul's saying, you know?

00:09:22.220 Right.

00:09:22.380 Yeah. And I've, I've had conversations with people before just about this, this idea of

00:09:29.900 whatever we do, do all to the glory of God. That even means like just down to the very

00:09:35.580 act of brushing your teeth, brushing your teeth, making a sandwich, you know, making coffee in the

00:09:41.280 morning, do all of that to the glory of God. Like imagine doing something purposely against

00:09:47.420 the glory of God. Right. Right. And sometimes we omit, we do it the glory of self.

00:09:52.380 Yeah.

00:09:52.640 Or we do it to the glory of whatever, right?

00:09:54.720 And so I think you're right.

00:09:56.500 It's just, it's an all-encompassing. 1.00

00:09:58.280 Christianity is a totalizing faith. 1.00

00:10:00.880 Yeah. 1.00

00:10:02.000 So in terms of common threats,

00:10:06.380 I just wrote some lists here.

00:10:11.300 Just to kind of give you a little bit of background.

00:10:13.320 I mean, I'm not like a super doctor expert person, you know?

00:10:15.940 So I've done a decent amount of reading.

00:10:18.460 Yeah.

00:10:18.760 You've had to do plenty of study.

00:10:20.720 Yeah.

00:10:21.080 And I'm not just reading like articles.

00:10:22.380 Like I've actually bought books from, you know, naturopathic doctors or medical doctors who have turned more natural.

00:10:30.560 And, you know, I have a decent framework for some of this stuff because when you're that sick, you research a lot.

00:10:36.340 I'm a part of so many different Facebook groups and forums that, you know, you're asking questions and responses.

00:10:43.100 And so anyways, you essentially have pathogens as a category.

00:10:47.380 And some people say there's five, some people say there's 10, whatever.

00:10:49.560 uh there's essentially microbes viruses parasites fungus and toxins or environmental toxins all of

00:10:57.480 those are really like the main contributors at some degree right you know um there's other

00:11:03.300 categories of some things that you don't need to worry about but those are really the things that

00:11:07.320 are essentially in a fallen world after us you know um we get sick we have parasites that live

00:11:14.620 in us. I mean, every one of us, you know, I think that like, we're the only, one of the only

00:11:19.460 countries here in America that like, don't regularly like deworm our people. Yeah. Um,

00:11:25.560 now I'm not saying you should deworm your, yourself with like pharmaceuticals. I think

00:11:29.600 there's like natural ways, like parasitic, uh, parasite cleanses. Have you ever done one of

00:11:33.840 those? I've never done one of those, but yeah, I've, I've, I've gotten close to doing one of

00:11:40.360 those before it just never went that far for me you hear which i i hear their intense that's why

00:11:46.480 i've i've avoided them yeah because once you start something like that it's like

00:11:50.340 you you are in it and you can't get out until it's complete and i'll tell you what i've had people

00:11:56.880 that i know friends that have done the parasite cleanses and they that yeah they're actually

00:12:01.700 finding worms in their stool yeah um and and so that's a real category for people uh here in

00:12:10.600 america you know you're and not not all of its worms i mean there's stuff that's microsoftic

00:12:14.100 parasites yeah um fungus which is my deal right uh the mold right so mold is is a you know if

00:12:20.680 you're breathing in mold and actually there there is a biblical category for mold in the bible i

00:12:26.200 should have the verse with us right now but it talks about if there's mold in the house get it

00:12:29.800 out of the house mold is not good for your lungs and your blood system and your body and some

00:12:37.960 people are more sensitive than others and some people can't detox as effectively as others

00:12:43.840 and then environmental toxins which we are that was i think my primary thing environmental toxins

00:12:50.540 down to you know the fact that our wheat is is sprayed with glyphosate and it there's so many

00:12:58.860 things that are just unnaturally preserved at this point that it essentially makes food

00:13:05.320 no longer food and our bodies don't know what to do with them. And, uh, not to mention the fact

00:13:12.500 that, you know, taking medication for headaches, strips your gut lining, does all sorts of, of

00:13:19.100 just awful things to your gut. It's a good bandaid for pain in the immediate context of it, but

00:13:26.040 long term it does more harm than good yeah i i remember like i'm gonna botch this stat but

00:13:33.580 something like in like 1850 there was like you know 60 chemicals you know and like in 1950 there

00:13:42.040 was like you know 3800 chemicals you know yeah i think we're in the thousands right now we're like

00:13:49.460 yeah, 10,000 chemicals, right?

00:13:51.700 Insane.

00:13:52.220 And so we are seeing

00:13:54.660 essentially like a perversion

00:13:57.680 of the natural order.

00:13:59.100 Yeah.

00:13:59.360 I do believe that the earth,

00:14:00.920 like our bodies,

00:14:01.640 has a filtration system

00:14:02.980 that can restore.

00:14:04.200 Totally.

00:14:04.660 So I think that we can,

00:14:06.180 if we just stop messing with things

00:14:08.560 that don't need to be messed with.

00:14:11.820 Now, I'm also a big fan of like,

00:14:15.440 I don't think we should just be

00:14:16.660 like cave people in the back,

00:14:18.260 you know,

00:14:18.460 and like everybody live in a homestead and like, Hey, that's great. You know, I'm actually like

00:14:22.720 the idea of living in a homestead. But what I'm saying is that I actually think there's a theology

00:14:26.000 of like technology. We just need to figure out a way to do technology that doesn't eventually kill

00:14:30.880 us. Right. Which right now we're, you know, we're radiating ourselves with EMFs. We're wearing

00:14:35.360 clothing that's like got formaldehyde in it. We're, you know, our paints and our, everything's

00:14:42.020 treated with something. And, you know, we've essentially overextended. We want comfort. So

00:14:47.720 we're like, oh, I want to grow food without a weed next to it. And it's like, well, let's spray

00:14:52.480 this garbage on there. And so there's a lot of that going on. Yeah. Well, I think you can even 0.96

00:14:59.600 see that there are ways that we are learning as a society, like, you know, lead paint used to be

00:15:07.300 in every single home. Yep. And now that has gone away. And we had amalgam mercury fillings in our

00:15:14.720 teeth which i still have some yeah which again was a stupid idea yeah we just happen to be born 0.95

00:15:19.580 in that generation that did that right um like let's just put metal in our face let's see what 0.97

00:15:24.780 happens mercury kills people you know if you if you like drop if you drop like open mercury in

00:15:31.300 like like from like a thermometer into like a 5 000 square foot building yeah like the the

00:15:39.040 regulation is to like evacuate everybody from the building within like you know minutes

00:15:44.220 and like, let's, let's put this in people's mouths. This is a good idea. You know, this is

00:15:49.200 so stupid. Yeah. So we have those categories again, microbes, viruses, parasites, fungus, 1.00

00:15:55.200 environmental toxins, and they produce a handful of problems, right? Inflammation being the main

00:15:59.960 one, you know, autoimmune responses, autoimmune responses, mast cell disorders, mast cells are

00:16:05.060 a type of cell. One of the operations of a mast cell is histamine, but it's got other functions

00:16:11.320 too. The mast cell essentially is what creates inflammation. Like when a kid that's allergic

00:16:16.240 to peanuts, the peanut didn't kill the kid. The mast cell killed the kid. And so the mast cell,

00:16:27.780 our bodies actually kill. It's the mast cell reaction. And so essentially allergic reactions,

00:16:33.700 malignant tumors, cancers, organ failures, diseases, all these are the reaction of this

00:16:38.160 stuff. And we sometimes think if we just go back to like Edenic living, that all of this will go

00:16:46.280 away. It's like, no, it won't because we live in a fallen world and our bodies die and they get

00:16:49.480 corrupted. Right. But I think pretty sure this generation, the millennials are like the first

00:16:54.900 generation in a long time that doesn't supersede the previous generation. Like we're going to

00:17:00.280 actually die earlier than our parents. Yeah. And we're not dying of heart attacks and strokes

00:17:07.740 and or whatever like that i think people are dying now like colon cancer and like um which which all

00:17:14.640 stems from inflammation yes autoimmune issues like all of these things is like once a a part

00:17:22.420 of our bodies is weakened it then causes other areas like you know cancer cells like we all have

00:17:30.220 cancer cells to some degree in our bodies our bodies are just able to to fight them off but

00:17:37.080 when it, when your body has other areas that it needs to, to focus on, it lessens our ability

00:17:45.140 to, to fight off these other things, which then. Let the cancer cells take over. Yeah. So yeah,

00:17:50.440 it's a constant battle, especially for someone like me. I feel like I have less ability to

00:17:54.680 detox. And I think one main thing we need to be doing is we just need to have a life of detoxing.

00:18:00.320 Like having a toxic free environment as much as possible, you know, being outside a lot.

00:18:07.080 Um, and so, and I, I, there's something to be said for, for fasting too.

00:18:12.960 Yep.

00:18:13.460 Uh, that, that's not necessarily for everybody, uh, depending on your situation that you're

00:18:19.040 in.

00:18:19.240 Like, I don't think that it would be a good thing for your body to, to go through a like

00:18:23.380 period of fasting at this point.

00:18:25.680 Yeah.

00:18:25.920 I didn't get enough weight back.

00:18:26.940 But if we were in a healthier state, fasting would actually be of great benefit, not just

00:18:33.740 physically but also spiritually and mentally as well it allows inflammation to go down a bit

00:18:40.460 um and it's like god knew a thing or two yeah about that about that yeah um so essentially

00:18:47.500 we have you know we have corrupted genetics that's a cause we have human ignorance which

00:18:52.000 is a cause we also have human like negligence and we have human harm yeah and those are the

00:18:58.960 some of the categories that uh you got to find out where you at yeah all of us are a little bit 0.96

00:19:02.580 ignorant. All of us have corrupted genetics in some degree. Some of us are just being negligent 0.94

00:19:08.960 and lazy, and some of us are straight up harming our bodies. And so that's essentially

00:19:14.400 the categories that we need to look at and evaluate ourselves, which again leads us to

00:19:20.660 our next question. Yeah. So the next question is, as Christians, how should we be living?

00:19:26.360 Is there a particular lifestyle that can be supported by scripture?

00:19:30.660 sure you know i think i i looked at some of this stuff and and you know you can make arguments

00:19:37.120 obviously god started started the world in the mediterranean you know there's there's something

00:19:42.140 about you know jesus ate fish and and you know had a mediterranean diet there's there's something

00:19:48.600 there he didn't start it in canada like that's just not where you know so there's something

00:19:53.020 you know about human thriving and flourishing about that diet there's also people that live

00:19:57.020 you know, really long over there in that area.

00:19:59.540 Sure.

00:20:00.660 You know, so there's some things

00:20:01.900 that are indicative from scripture.

00:20:03.500 You know, I don't think the Daniel plan

00:20:04.720 from Rick Warren is a great idea.

00:20:06.740 You know, I think that was taken out of context

00:20:09.340 like the rest of his interpretations.

00:20:12.000 But there's some things that I have just,

00:20:14.020 I go, I think that we see in scripture

00:20:15.360 that we know just from natural observation, right?

00:20:18.940 So, you know, natural revelation

00:20:21.920 versus special revelation.

00:20:23.440 So some natural revelation about how God is

00:20:25.800 and how he operates and what the world functions like.

00:20:28.860 And so I just listed off 10 things

00:20:31.280 that I think have been like my key things.

00:20:33.500 Yeah.

00:20:34.060 And I think these are just, you know,

00:20:37.480 you don't have to follow me.

00:20:38.140 I'm not the healthiest person in the room.

00:20:39.580 But I would say they fall in line

00:20:41.580 with healthy people that I know.

00:20:43.540 I just happen to have, you know,

00:20:44.600 a dilemma with my own body.

00:20:45.980 But number one is sleep.

00:20:47.820 I think people need to sleep.

00:20:48.940 And we live in a society that basically

00:20:51.860 overextends wake times.

00:20:55.800 Right. They're like going to bed at, you know, one in the morning, waking up at six, you know, whatever it may be. Right. So just getting, getting like that seven hours for men and eight hours, maybe for women to sleep, I think is a big thing. Um, you know, I try to live if I can in like a non-electric world. So meaning that I don't like to stay up too late past sundown.

00:21:21.480 yeah you know um and i i also you know i think there's also a a theology of location for health

00:21:30.440 bodies like geographics really do matter for health you know you you actually might do better

00:21:36.720 at higher elevation you might do better lower elevation might be do better by the ocean you

00:21:40.000 might do better in the warmth you might do better in the cold you like so you got to figure out

00:21:44.980 what's going on with your body and thinking about where you live yeah true so uh but while wherever

00:21:50.120 you live you know sleep um sun all the time lots of sun all the stats are coming out and the studies

00:21:57.640 are coming out that the idea of sunscreen is is like a bad idea right um and that so we did this

00:22:05.100 like i stopped wearing sunglasses yeah a year and a half ago but this was the first full summer that

00:22:12.280 i had that i hadn't been wearing sunglasses from the start right and i got radically more tan than

00:22:19.500 I have been since I was about 17. And I thought I started wearing sunglasses when I was 17.

00:22:24.860 That was, I think I suggested to you, like don't wear sunglasses because there's evidence that

00:22:31.160 suggests our bodies, like our eyes need to be regulated by the sun in order for our skin cells

00:22:40.020 to respond accordingly. Yeah. So like the amount of melanin or whatever that's produced in your

00:22:46.060 skin uh your your eyes are essentially the sensors for that so i remember like having a hot

00:22:52.180 sunny day and like i'm not burning i'm not trying to get burned but i just came back and my arms

00:22:59.140 were like so tan my legs were so i was just like wow and my eyes were functioning like how they

00:23:06.260 supposed to and i didn't burn and which is interesting because i had skin cancer i don't

00:23:12.960 know three and a half four years ago yeah and so now i don't wear sunscreen at all and everybody

00:23:18.440 was like you had to wear sunscreen all the time don't don't even don't even go from your house

00:23:22.020 to your car without wearing sunscreen like yeah that was the you know all the uh dermatologists

00:23:28.300 that was like man you guys don't know anything yeah they have a particular set of uh practice

00:23:36.220 practice to to teach yeah and it for many of them it doesn't really expand beyond that yeah

00:23:43.560 um but yeah basically what sunscreen is doing is this is similar to what sunglasses would be doing

00:23:49.040 however there are far more like chemicals within the sunscreen that are also seeping in through

00:23:58.520 your skin. Uh, and, and it just, it does it from the research that I've done, it, it does more harm

00:24:06.500 than it does good. There are good natural, uh, sunscreens out there. Yeah. If you want to be

00:24:12.160 those people that make the zinc, you know, based stuff with coconut oil and shea butter or whatever

00:24:16.840 you can, you can do that. Right. Uh, but I just go, I'm only speaking clinically from my own

00:24:22.280 experience is that I stopped wearing sunscreen and stopped wearing sunglasses and my skin

00:24:28.400 works again yeah if the evidence wasn't there it is there at least in my life yeah totally um okay

00:24:33.840 the next thing is activity just do something even if you're in the middle of your crazy season of

00:24:38.820 life i'm i got four kids you got five i have five and and like it's easy to go i remember asking

00:24:44.760 someone like who had like budget kids like oh what do you do for fun he's like i don't even know what

00:24:48.360 i do for fun like i've forgotten all i do is whatever's fun for my kids right i was i was

00:24:53.860 gonna say you you actually do this more effectively than i do because you get out you play pickleball

00:25:01.620 yeah uh what like five four or five times a week yeah um and it's you know it's usually in the

00:25:09.300 morning which is when you get the best sunlight on your skin yeah um so yeah like that that is

00:25:15.780 something for me i know personally i need to get better at yeah is is actually taking care of my

00:25:22.400 my body in in way of of activity i love hiking we live in a a good place to to go hiking yeah

00:25:30.200 and so i try to do that as often as i can um but when you have four or five kids it's hard getting

00:25:36.760 getting people packed and ready to go on a hike is easier said than done it's longer to go than

00:25:42.260 it is to be there yeah yeah one thing there's a study that was just recently released uh at least

00:25:47.920 i've been hearing about it a lot on social media but i watched and did a little research

00:25:52.080 25 year study um and it shows like jogging will add like three years your life like you know

00:25:58.940 swimming will add four years your life biking will add like four four some years your life

00:26:02.300 um the number one extender of life as an activity is paddle sports so ping pong um pickleball

00:26:13.080 tennis uh racquetball squash there's some other ones out there but but for a couple reasons one

00:26:21.780 it's incredibly aerobic and all encompassing with your body the other thing is that it's eye hand

00:26:27.760 coordination or hand-eye coordination yeah that keeps your neurological pathways functioning and

00:26:34.740 firing at a way that's um that's you know difficult for your body when it's aging and

00:26:43.760 you're you know you're losing coordination well there's i mean there's proof of that

00:26:47.460 uh there are 70 80 year old folks playing pickleball yep and they are beating us yeah

00:26:54.240 so not me anymore but you yeah you have to go through a season where you get smashed by 70

00:26:59.220 year old women it's very humbling um and uh then you get past that and uh so yeah um so activity

00:27:07.460 i'll just say that and through activity you sweat which is a major part of detoxing and i remember

00:27:12.280 living up in the north and i didn't sweat at all like i would go nine months i feel like with

00:27:18.360 barely even sweating because it's cold all the time right so i just think sweating for certain

00:27:22.760 people especially me is very very good okay we're getting through it um water we want clean water

00:27:28.380 um our water has been filled with toxins so if you have a great well wonderful um you know you

00:27:36.080 don't want your water also in plastic which i have plastic bottles that i drink a lot of my

00:27:39.120 water out of which is bad um you know you ideally you want water out of well into a glass container

00:27:44.460 right be a great situation um but yeah healthy water you know in arizona we have water that's

00:27:49.620 filled with arsenic yeah so you got to get filtered water here that's just a thing because

00:27:53.780 it's like in the ground it's a mineral and we just got lots of arsenic so you you know it's way too

00:27:59.980 much so you have to you have to filter here um food we need organic food i i'm i'm pushing i'm

00:28:06.580 not even for like the natural stuff dude i think the natural stuff is like just you know marketing

00:28:12.080 i think you need organic and even then like you want beyond organic stuff like if you can get it

00:28:18.000 from a farm somewhere close to you. Yeah. Uh, you know, I even think that you shouldn't be eating

00:28:24.520 watermelon in, in, in December, you know, in Oregon. Like, I just think your body's like,

00:28:31.160 I don't know, there's something there that I feel like I have a, it's my own theory.

00:28:33.940 Well, and I was just going to say too, like if, if you're just starting out on a, on a journey

00:28:38.140 of healing, like just start with one thing. Yeah. Start with, you know, finding one organic food

00:28:46.440 and cutting out like certain, you know, frozen foods, preserved foods, things like that. Just

00:28:53.500 take it one step at a time and see how your body responds. It is amazing how one change like that

00:29:02.320 can actually make all the difference. Like grass-fed beef is not grass-fed beef unless it's

00:29:08.620 grass-fed and grass-finished. Yeah. And like pasture-raised chicken with no antibiotics

00:29:15.040 doesn't mean that they don't get vaccines true so you're eating like vaccinated chicken so you

00:29:21.440 gotta like be careful where you go like oh i want the marketing to it is is tricky yeah you want

00:29:26.880 pasture raised pasture finished meats if you can like free range free room free range means that

00:29:34.640 they could mean that they have freedom within a nine foot box inside of this like giant tent

00:29:40.640 like oh you free range eggs it's like no that's very different than pasture raised eggs and then

00:29:46.420 you want pasture like so it's you got to be careful because this stuff's telling you it's

00:29:50.700 a lot of it's gross you wouldn't do it at your own house that way you wouldn't be like you know

00:29:55.420 let's put all of our chickens in a room and then let's let's pump heavy metals into them so they

00:30:00.520 stop getting sick and then like let's feed them these other things and then let's eat them like

00:30:05.280 you wouldn't do that no that's not doesn't sound appetizing doesn't it's not what you do no um

00:30:09.440 okay air quality i'm gonna say is you know if you live in wildfire areas or if you have like a city

00:30:16.320 where you're having like lots of toxins coming off of vehicles and and you know all the stuff

00:30:20.960 that's going on prescott arizona where we live has like it came back as like the cleanest air

00:30:27.440 in america a couple years ago so we have really clean air where we live i watch there's an app

00:30:32.240 called iq air and i watch the air quality every single day and just have ventilation i have a

00:30:40.560 whole house fan in our house that like pulls in air from the outside and keeps our house ventilated

00:30:44.920 really well we have like several air purifiers for days that are hard also if you happen to have

00:30:51.740 any other toxins or people come over for our house all the time wearing perfumes and colognes and

00:30:57.020 and i just want that stuff filtered out but you need to buy like you know the voc degree

00:31:02.640 800 air purifiers and honestly for a guy like me i i need that so um because i'm constantly

00:31:10.280 having toxic overload so i have those and that's important to us um and then we have three more

00:31:18.400 four more moving slow that's okay okay i feel bad because my wife is is waiting outside with

00:31:24.180 all of our kids right now we'll get through it um hygiene uh so when you sweat you know you want

00:31:31.040 to shower off those toxins right um that's the thing and uh my wife would love for me to take

00:31:37.360 more showers you know uh i don't think i think i also think sometimes people over shower like i

00:31:42.100 take a shower in the morning i take a shower in the evening i'm like you sat at your desk all day

00:31:45.760 dude because yeah there is evidence to suggest that it's actually good for our bodies to to

00:31:52.580 hold on to certain things that soaps and other synthetic things basically strip off of our skin

00:32:00.980 and off of our scalps. So yeah, I mean, there's evidence to suggest that, you know,

00:32:06.780 we shouldn't shower as often as we do, but still showering when you've had like a day of

00:32:12.860 being outside, sweating a ton, playing pickleball, whatever.

00:32:17.400 Trevor would certainly add to this conversation, not biting your fingernails.

00:32:20.700 Yes. Yeah. Please don't do that.

00:32:22.580 Um, and, uh, yeah, there's other things that, um, I was going to say, Oh, like soap, I just

00:32:30.620 honestly just throw it all out. You don't even need it. Um, that's just my, my thinking, you

00:32:34.920 know, or, or get like a good handmade soap, handmade soap. Yeah. Yeah. I'm more extreme.

00:32:41.080 Yeah. So I haven't, I'll use soap on my hands. Do you, do you like wash your hair with like

00:32:45.900 egg yolk or something like that i haven't used basically any soap on my body for a shower or

00:32:54.500 shampoo for years that can confirm that he does not smell right now yeah so i mean i just go like

00:33:02.220 i also don't use deodorant yeah um but i again i think when you're detoxing regularly you get

00:33:08.940 you don't smell as much true and and when you're eating healthier organic natural foods yep

00:33:15.180 it's, it's not going to, you're not going to have that same odor as you, as you normally would.

00:33:20.520 I just saw a guy washing his hair with eggs and I thought, I might try that. Yeah. I might try that.

00:33:26.680 Okay. Stress. I'm just going to say, Hey, we're all stressed. Figure out a way to de-stress

00:33:33.260 watching a TV show with your wife or husband or going on a walk. Working in a way to de-stress

00:33:42.420 your life seems to be something that we should all be focusing on just for half hour like build

00:33:47.640 an alarm clock like i'm gonna chill for 30 minutes yeah and just from a scriptural basis

00:33:53.660 like if you are stressed we need to be praying and and giving that over to the lord yes because

00:34:00.460 he he's where we find our peace yeah like you know again like was jesus stressed i mean he did

00:34:08.300 sweat drops of blood his body was certainly stressed but he was he was certainly not worried

00:34:13.220 right right so like there's a difference like he was not like oh like i don't know what's gonna

00:34:19.220 happen right when he was praying before his crucifixion he was praying specifically you

00:34:27.500 know lord take this from me not my will but your will be done yep and then was consigned to what

00:34:34.620 the will of the of god was i mean paul says be anxious for nothing right so i just go yeah we

00:34:41.840 we get to not be anxious which is very difficult in a fallen body which leads very nicely into the

00:34:47.640 next point yeah joy yeah uh which is a fruit of the spirit fruit of the spirit i would say also

00:34:52.560 peace right and so finding a way to actually have joy in your life instead of just being like

00:34:56.940 a cog you know in a you know wheel of life you're like all i do is work and then i

00:35:03.480 I'm a machine. And I'm like, well, figure out a way to have some sort of joy every day. We have

00:35:07.980 something to look forward to every day. Which I feel like these last three points are all tied

00:35:15.040 together. If we can minimize stress, find more joy, a big way that we can do that and a big way

00:35:24.220 that I've seen for my family to be able to do that is within the church community.

00:35:29.320 Yeah. Which is point number 10. Yeah. Like if you're not part of a local biblical church where you actually know people and they actually like you and love you and want to know you and have you for dinner and, and you have them for dinner and you like want to spend time with them because you're actually care about them. Right. You need that kind of church. Amen. And so, uh, that's the thing. I'm going to list it off one more time. It's sleep, sun, activity, water, food, air, hygiene, stress, joy, church. And so those are the things.

00:35:58.920 So on that note, we got to wrap it up because I got four kids outside and we'll get to the

00:36:06.980 last episode, which will be a theology of pharmaceuticals, supplements, diets, and tools

00:36:11.980 for wellness. I'll talk about my sauna and some other things. And we'll move on from there. But

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Dale Partridge - September 16, 2023

Christ in Chronic Illness Pt. 3： A Biblical Lifestyle for Healing

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