Hello, everyone, and welcome
to another biblical prescription for life today.
We're going to try to answer this question that has come in
from a person that asks, What should I try to do
when my symptoms are unexplained?
You know, what's the next step when you're feeling poorly
and no one can figure out what to do?
That's a great question, and I see that
quite a bit in the clinical practice of medicine.
But before we go there, let's start out with a biblical prescription
from Isaiah 41, verse ten.
Fear not for I am with you.
Be not dismayed.
For I am your God.
I will strengthen you. Yes.
I will help you.
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
What a wonderful text for people that might be suffering
from anxiety and concerns.
We don't fear not.
God's going to strengthen you if we stay close to him.
And a lot of people might be fearful. And.
Dismayed and feeling poorly when they have something
wrong in their body and it can't be explained.
So that's called a symptom.
And the symptoms can be very confusing for doctors.
You know, of course, chest pain and shortness of breath and losing weight
in rashes and joint pains and digestive problems,
headaches not feeling well, lack of energy.
These are all examples of symptoms.
And you might be having a symptom today and it might not be unexplained.
So this might be something that you might want to pay attention to.
So what do I try to do personally when my symptoms are unexplained?
Well, you know, of course you want to see your physician
and make sure there's nothing major that they can pick up on.
And they usually order a bevy of tests and, you know, EKGs
and it goes on the heart and maybe a chest x ray and blood work.
But sometimes despite complete evaluations,
including your genetic history, all this,
your symptoms are still ongoing and it can't be explained.
Many patients, they say, oh, we can't explain it.
It must be stress.
Well, that's you know, that's a blame.
But something is still causing the stress.
Sometimes people say, well, you know, we can't explain the symptoms.
This person is just a hypochondriac.
They just want something to be wrong.
But many times there is something.
Undiscovered.
All that's going on in the body that's causing these symptoms.
So this is what I do when in my body
that I'm having a symptom that is unexplained.
In fact, I'm not too long ago I had this little rash
that popped up on my body, and that was a symptom that was unexplained.
And I, I sort of there wasn't anything major wrong,
but there was something that just wasn't right.
And I went through the things that I'm going to share with you,
and I figured out what was causing it and eliminated that.
And guess what?
The little bumps in my body went away.
So the first thing that we want to go over is anything that you put in
your body can have a chemical consequence.
It can change your physiology.
And that includes medications, supplements,
foods, food additives, things that's blowing in the air.
I had someone that was exposed to poison ivy one time that was smoke,
and they broke out,
you know, even thoughts.
Everything affects everything in the body.
And sometimes one chemical reaction will affect another chemical reaction.
So our bodies are very complex.
Yes, we are fearfully and wonderfully made,
and a lot about an individual body is still unknown.
It's how your body processes, how it breaks down things.
We call that metabolism, how it excretes things.
So the body is very unique and it's different for each person.
One size does not necessarily fit all.
So when I'm having an unexplained symptoms, the first thing I want to
look is medications.
Is there a new medication?
Might I be having a side effect in all the medications?
As you look at them?
They have side effects, no doubt about it.
And hopefully the benefits outweigh the side effects.
But if you're having a new symptom
and are on a new medication, this might be a possibility.
Now, sometimes it's not the medication, it's
how the medication is processed and wrapped and delivery systems.
And that sometimes can change from generic medications
to the different types of medications.
So that's something to look into
to see if it might be possible that you have a medication side effect.
And of course, if you stop any medication, you have to check with your doctor
to make sure the risk of stopping it are worth the benefits.
I prescribe a medication called amiodarone.
It has lots of side effects.
However, it does have benefits, especially on the rhythm of the heart.
And we keep surveillance of that medication very carefully
to make sure a person's not having side effects.
So other things that people can have unexplained
symptoms from is the different supplements they take.
Remember, supplements are not checked on as much to see what's in them,
and sometimes they have things that don't agree with you.
So check on your supplements.
Sometimes it can be in the food.
We have lots of food that's prepared in different ways and it's processed now.
We have canned foods. We have wrapped foods.
All of these foods have different things in them besides the food itself.
Sometimes the food or the supplement, is it the problem?
It's what it's wrapped in.
So sometimes these things in a body, an individual body
might do fine with them, but someone else might have a side effect.
Well, I found out that one of my medications
that I take, a generic one, was processed differently,
and that was causing me to have these little bumps.
I got back to the real medication and guess what?
The bumps went away.
So and that would that wasn't picked up on bloodwork wasn't picked up by anything
but but just knowing that that chemical was causing problems.
Different types of foods.
Some people agree with different types of food.
Some people have food allergies.
We see that a lot of nuts.
And some people that eat
dairy products,
some meats, some people just don't agree with different foods.
And it causes chemical reactions that cause people not to feel good.
So when you're sort through
an unexplained symptoms, your doctor can't explain it.
Of course, I want you to go to a biblical prescription to get God to help you.
And in our text today, if you're not for I'm with you, be that dismayed.
I will strengthen you God's promise to help with this.
But there are some things that He can guide you to that might help as well.
One of the things that I think is very important is read labels.
Let me show you.
This is a label of a supplement and it has different things in it.
For instance, it has algae oil.
It has high oleic sunflower oil.
It has.
Rosemary extract it, have natural mix
toke of ferals, which are antioxidants.
It has palmitate.
It has a soft gel capsule and is cornstarch.
It has glycerin.
It has another substance called carrageenan in there.
It has sorbitol water.
So everything that we put in us not only has the substance,
but it has different things to stabilize it
and help it get into the body and go where it needs to go.
So on
this in this one, for instance, it has a substance.
You know, you look at the label and say, listen,
maybe this is causing me side effects, maybe one of the chemicals.
So what you would do is you would eliminate
as many chemicals as you can from your from your regimen.
And that includes supplements and that includes medicines, if possible.
And then now, if one, you know, is causing it, it's a very common side effect.
For instance, nitroglycerin.
I give someone nitroglycerin two days away from now.
They have a headache.
I can sort of put that together fairly easy.
But some of these interactions are a little bit more complicated.
So I would look at that all the different substances
and try to limit as many chemicals as you can and see
if you might start feeling better, if you might start feeling better.
Add the things that you think are most important in your life
first and see if the symptom recurs.
So what I showed you there had a chemical called carrageenan.
And there's been much controversy about that chemical.
And it's actually an extract from red seaweed.
It's a food allergy.
It's been around forever.
It is a natural substance, but some people don't do well with it.
They use it to help.
It's a emulsifying.
It's thick, it's a thickener.
It improves texture, it helps things gel.
And a lot of people don't like to take things, other things that do that,
and they want to take a natural substance.
And sometimes this carrageenan is in different natural substance,
but some people don't it doesn't agree with.
It's been explained.
It caused bloating, inflammation, problems with the stomach.
However many people, the Irish and Chinese,
it's been around for hundreds of years.
Some people don't have any problems with it and do well.
But that's just one example of something
a chemical that's in a supplement and the same things that are in pills
and injections and everything have different chemicals that interact.
A lot of people have been taking different shots
and it has special things in sort shots that make them more stable in the body.
But these definitely can cause side effects.
And of course, all of the processed foods have additives and different things
that might interact with your body and cause an unexplained symptom.
So I hope when you are faced with an unexplained symptoms,
see your doctor first, get a complete physical, make sure it's nothing big,
but then try some things yourself.
Say, Hey, listen, is there any chemical in my life that I can get rid of?
Just might just be for a short period time.
All the chemicals that you can,
the processed foods, the additives, everything.
And sometimes, you know, you can figure out what was causing your symptom.
And usually the symptom is more an annoyance than life threatening
a GI symptom fatigue, joint pains, inflammation, a rash like I had.
But I think that's what I would try to do
if I have unexplained symptoms that my doctor can't figure out.
But more important than any of that is, we must realize that God allows us
to have trials and tribulations because he sees the big picture.
He wants to be with us in a relationship.
For us forever.
So that brings us back to Isaiah 4110.
A great biblical prescription, a great promise, especially
if you're having health problems and you're concerned.
This text fear not for I am with you.
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
Yes, I will help you.
That's a guarantee. A promise.
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
So we have a God that loves us.
And through his son, he's.
We can have a relationship with him and he is there to help us.
But we must ask and we must try to develop this relationship.
And that's what biblical prescriptions are like.
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And a couple of people have commented that I look more relaxed than usual.
Well, I'm having more time now because I've now made the transition
from a full time cardiologist to a part time cardiologist.
I still want to, quote,
stay in the game to stay up on, especially the modern medicine.
But I want to have more time for ministry,
more time of telling people about the big picture, what's important,
sharing biblical prescriptions and helping give hope and encouraging.
So I hope this was helpful.
What to do when symptoms are unexplained?
Read the labels. Try to get rid of chemicals.
See if you can figure it out.
But more important than that,
remember that we have someone that will help you and strengthen you.
We have to call upon that name.
I'm Dr. James Markman.
I'm to be back soon with another biblical prescription for life.