Dale Partridge - The One Thing Chronically Sick People Want - Dale Partridge

00:00:00.000 Why do you think, or why did you think it was important to have a series on chronic illness?

00:00:06.340 Yeah, so chronic illness is something that's plaguing more and more people today. I think

00:00:13.540 that I have some stats here. I think it's the 44% of older millennials born between 1981 and 1988,

00:00:20.680 which is us. You're 86? 85. 85. Okay, we're both 85. And, you know, that are in that category,

00:00:28.780 44% are having been diagnosed with at least one chronic health condition.

00:00:34.020 That means like our age range,

00:00:35.740 almost half and I would say arguably half because there's other studies that

00:00:39.960 have showed more right of the people in our age range have something going on.

00:00:44.920 Yep.

00:00:45.880 And, you know,

00:00:47.000 we all look at our grandparents who,

00:00:49.500 you know,

00:00:50.760 eat TV dinners and smoke cigarettes and live until their nineties.

00:00:54.600 And they're like food allergies,

00:00:56.880 you know,

00:00:57.340 what do you you know pansy you know or whatever right yeah and so uh another poll said 50 percent

00:01:04.500 of millennials have at least one food allergy right i mean look at our restaurant world you

00:01:10.860 know look at whole foods and sprouts yeah and you know i just i'm not kidding yesterday i just spent

00:01:18.660 $150 buying low histamine unaged beef from a farm in San Diego that essentially, well,

00:01:31.020 that's at least where their packing plant is, that sends out this, you know, specific

00:01:36.720 health. Very, very niche health condition. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They make meat for people that

00:01:45.840 struggle with mast cell activation syndrome, which most people don't even have to think about.

00:01:49.240 Yeah. Yeah. And, and, and so this is a weird world that we live in. Yeah. Um, I always remind

00:01:53.820 people that we are the only generation that grew up without organic food. I mean, every generation

00:02:00.160 before us, I mean, maybe sure the seventies and sixties were kind of brutal, but I mean,

00:02:04.640 organic didn't have to be a thing because everything that was edible was organic.

00:02:09.040 organic yeah yeah yeah and so this is we we are certainly eating the worst food yeah having the

00:02:15.840 worst clothing having the worst environments yes uh to live in in a toxicity levels than any other

00:02:24.900 generation so there's something going on here i think everybody knows like why is everybody that's

00:02:29.940 young sick yeah and some people talk about vaccines some people talk about you know air

00:02:35.360 pollution. Some people talk about the food products. Some people talk about the pharmaceutical

00:02:40.040 industry. Sure. Some people talk about air quality and environmental toxins and plastics. And so

00:02:47.300 there's a lot of factors. All play a part. All play a part. You know, so again, back to this

00:02:54.360 question, like why do I think it's important for us to have this conversation? There's two quotes

00:03:02.440 i want to share i don't know who said these quotes but everything is super important until

00:03:06.560 you're sick then you realize there was only one thing that was really important which is your

00:03:11.600 health now i know this is probably a secular quote so we know that that there's other things

00:03:16.880 that are important but you get the emphasis of the of the quote another one was quote a healthy

00:03:22.720 person wants a thousand things the sick person only wants one yeah last night i was um had the

00:03:31.860 privilege to pray over a member of our church. His mom is in the last days of her life. And I

00:03:41.680 got a chance to pray over her and she is dying of cancer and she was in the living room of

00:03:50.380 this church member's home and she can't talk really. She can open her eyes. She can maybe

00:03:56.200 whisper something. And I was praying over her and she was tearing up as she was praying. She's still

00:04:01.440 feeling she's still understanding but the thing that she really wants at that moment

00:04:07.620 is just the one thing is just to be healthy again yeah we all take that for granted we do and so

00:04:14.520 there is certainly a discussion to be had around the christian um you know i'm the last guy that's

00:04:22.960 going to go i'm the advocate for self-care okay like i'm not that guy but what i am going to say

00:04:28.460 is that I believe it's important

00:04:30.380 that we are stewarding our health

00:04:34.060 in a way that allows us to be productive

00:04:37.180 and fruitful for the kingdom of God.

00:04:39.660 I'm not the guy that's like,

00:04:41.440 go do the gym selfies

00:04:42.580 and make sure that you're like obsessive

00:04:44.760 about supplementation or, you know,

00:04:47.680 I'm not like the fitness genre dude either.

00:04:52.200 I'm not trying to, you know, look sexy.

00:04:55.500 You know, my wife already thinks I'm sexy.

00:04:57.300 So I'm trying to just get healthy and stay healthy.

Dale Partridge - August 30, 2023

The One Thing Chronically Sick People Want - Dale Partridge

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