Near Death to New Purpose | Make 100 Healthy

Near Death to New Purpose | Make 100 Healthy Podcast
In this emotional and inspiring episode of Make 100 Healthy, John Murphy and guest co-host Megan McClenahan open up about real-life health battles, healing journeys, and the power of faith.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:08

Hey, hey everybody! It's John Murphy, your Make 100 Healthy Guy, and filling in for Sweet Angel Cecilia is my guest co-host, Megan McClanahan. Megan, it's so good to have you here. And uh Megan is behind the scenes as one of our producers, and she's stepping in front of the camera very comfortable. But uh, welcome to our show and thanks for being my co-host.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Thanks for having me today. You know, no one can fill Cecilia's shoes. She is the sweetest, most lovable woman. I love her. She's gonna be missed on this episode. So thanks for having me today.

SPEAKER_03 0:41

So Cecilia is in Angel World, visiting Angel World, doing what uh her purpose is uh on this world is to match caregivers with people that need their help. So she's uh fulfilling her purpose, and we're filling in and uh carrying it on. So we love you, Cecilia. So today's show is uh a very emotional show. There's gonna be a lot of heart sharing, a lot of prayers. Uh this is probably gonna be the realest show that we did. Not only is uh my co-host uh have a current medical situation that she's addressing, our guest coming up in a couple of minutes, Chuck Morgan, has got a fascinating story, fascinating man. And then we're gonna talk about uh a personal family situation I have as well. But you know, as we grow our audience and as we you know share every week, every other week with you, we want to remind you if you haven't yet, go to our uh like you to join our club, the Make 100 Healthy Club, the club everyone wants to be part of to be happy, healthy, and have purpose uh as you know as you live your whole life together. Go to make100healthy.com forward slash club. Uh you'll keep in the know. We're working on our Make 100 Healthy uh Club cookbook, and we've got some events that we're going to be planning. We're even talking about doing a cruise. So uh we're building our world because uh this is an aspirational deal. You know, you could choose to live a life just of existence and of subsistence or of uh gratitude, purpose, and an exhilarating ride until we're called back. So, Cecilia, uh I would uh would like to share with you uh what Cecilia said to me was that she said that you can fill her shoes and that she's honored that you are. So um anyway, let's talk a little bit about what you're hold on two seconds.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

We have to let our viewers know today. This is one thing I promised Cecilia about the senior referral network happening on. Do you have the attachment?

SPEAKER_03 2:56

I don't have the date, but we're gonna put it up on the May.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

Perfect. So Tony will get that up for you.

SPEAKER_03 3:01

Yeah, the senior referral network happens every quarterly.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

It's in May.

SPEAKER_03 3:05

It's a quarterly thing, and it's all businesses that get together, mostly for obviously senior health care, and they have a hometown hero and they have free food. And so Cecilia's on the board of that.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

So she is. So, Cecilia, I did you right today. We made sure we got that for you.

SPEAKER_03 3:22

So, uh, anyway, uh, we're gonna talk about your health journey, but before we do, we have another health journey. Our first guest today is a gentleman named Chuck Morgan. I've known him for quite a few years, and uh he is a homesteader, he is a patriot, he is a miracle man because uh he was given less than one chance, a one percent chance to live, and he's here today. Chuck, welcome to the show, my man. And uh God bless you. You are uh as we called you on the show, I thought we were gonna talk about your YouTube channel, which is my two-acre world, uh, or the fact that you're an extra on the Angel Studios production of the uh series Homestead, right? And uh that's what we we were gonna talk about, and then you shared your journey of how you had a heart attack and that you were almost not here. Could you let's start with that for a just let's talk about your journey to where you are today. Sure.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

Well, thank you for having me. First of all, I appreciate you. Um well to start at the beginning, it was uh October 31st, Halloween Tuesday 2023. Wow. Um, about nine o'clock in the morning. I was outside, uh, probably doing chores, but honestly, I don't remember what I was doing. I don't even remember being outside. I went inside. I don't remember going inside. I went to my wife and I put my hand on her shoulder and I said, uh, I want you to keep an eye on me. I don't feel well today. She said, Okay. And I dropped and I hit the ground in my living room. Oh my God. And that was that was that. And that was the beginning of a massive, uh, I didn't know at the time, with a massive heart attack. Um, I vaguely remember, you know, her reassuring me the ambulance is on the way. I remember hearing my son was there, and um, she was putting me on oxygen. She's got asthma, got an oxygen generator at home. So fortunately, that was there. And I was going in and out, in and out. I remember the uh vaguely the paramedics coming in and he said, I gotta get you up, I gotta put you on the couch, I gotta check you out, put the leads on me. He looks at the tape and says, We gotta go.

SPEAKER_03 5:33

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

So critical, critical. Yeah, very much so. So they uh, and I'm still going in and out. I really don't know what's going on. I just remember hearing these voices talking and saying these things. So they uh put me into the ambulance, and uh the battalion chief uh for Kafma was there for whatever reason, nobody knows. Apparently, the battalion chief does not normally go out on these types of calls, and he was at my house. Wow. And um he said, I'm going with this one. And he hopped into the ambulance with the paramedic. And um I'm still going in and out, and um off we go. And I remember thinking to myself, boy, this is taking a long time. Why is this so long? Because I'm in Prescott Valley, not too far from the hospital. I didn't realize they were taking me to Prescott. And I had driven by Willow Creek and saw the big flag there, and I said, Oh, I'm going to Prescott. Okay, I'm back out. I remember vaguely them wheeling me out of the ambulance and getting rolled into the cath lab, and somebody were leaning over me saying, blah, blah, blah, and adiosa was gone. And that was it basically for the next nine days. Wow. So what had happened while I was out and in the cath lab was they had six people in the cath lab realized I was having a massive heart attack. I had 100% occlusion in one artery, the circumflex and the left circumflex and um, or excuse me, right circumflex, and 99% in the left anterior descending. That's called the widowmaker, because when that plugs, you're usually getting shut off, which is what happened. Um, they went, uh my cardiologist, Dr. Muala, saved my life, but she shared all this with me many, many months later. She didn't want me to go through the trauma again because she didn't know uh what I remembered or not. So she didn't want me reliving things on accident because it can be traumatizing. So uh she had shared with me they went from six people in the cath lab to 10 people in the cath lab that they had cleaned out the left anterior, put a stent in, and went to do the circumflex, and the left anterior plugged right before her eyes again. I was having some kind of major clotting problem that they didn't understand at the time. It was just a fight to keep them alive. So I coded, which means you stop, your heart stopped, you stopped breathing. You you died. And I coded again and I coded again and again and again. I coded five times total. They shocked me eight times. She said, if I shocked any more, I was going to kill you myself. That's what was going to happen. So they had to stop. They brought in 12 more people and put them in rotation doing chest compressions. So hats at the at the uh by West, yeah. And uh hats off to everybody there because I had 22 people in that room that would not let me die. She said, Normally you're in the cats.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

That is the kind of medical system that we're forced to have.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

You know, we can we can talk about our healthcare system in one respect is terrible. You know, our preventative medicine is probably Well, people like the people inside that bad system are great people. But the technical part, the trauma medicine, you don't want to be anywhere but in the United States of America. This is the place where they can put you back together, and they did.

SPEAKER_03 8:37

So you make it through, and does that change your whole life at that point?

SPEAKER_02 8:42

Um Yeah, for a number of reasons. So to kind of continue that, they um the chest compressions cracked on my ribs because there were so many people pounding on me. It did save me, of course. They um use a technology called an impella, which is a cable-driven screwdrive pump. So if you can picture a screw. Long story short, there was a cardiologist back in the 70s, goes to Egypt on vacation, sees what's called an Archimedes screw, taking river from the Nile, river, water from the Nile River, and pumping it into the fields. And he said, Hey, I've got an idea. And he goes back home to the States and he develops this screwdrive pump that is going to uh help people having heart attacks when their hearts fail.

unknown 9:22

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 9:23

And uh they use it for a while, but the technology just wasn't there. It gets dropped. And many, many decades later, uh, thank goodness for me, um, the technology's there, the materials and the miniaturization and everything needed to make it work correctly worked. And they dropped that into my left anterior because it did fail, completely 15%. And it can't be there, it's got to be a 60, 65, or you're you're gonna die. So um, driven by cable anyhow, they intubated me, um, put me on a helicopter, flew me to Phoenix, put me in a coma for a week. Told all of my family, my son flew down from Alaska, my kids were all there, uh, my wife, of course, told everybody um just say your goodbyes. He's he's he's not gonna make it. His kidneys have failed. You're you're out, I guess. I'm out. Oh, yeah. I'm unconscious. And that's another story for another day, too. I could tell you that privately, but being in a coma is uh a bizarre. It was for me a very, very frightening experience. Uh I could hear things, I could feel things, sort of hearing. But you were trapped. It was it was frightening, honestly. It was a very, very scary experience. It was not like you're just resting or unconscious or something. It was not for me, it wasn't anything.

SPEAKER_03 10:32

So so you come through. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

How does it how do you come back? Uh grace to God. Absolute miracle. I had people literally around the world uh praying for me.

unknown 10:41

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 10:42

Uh the hour of prayer. There is no question, because I was written off by every single doctor. They were fantastic. They saved, may save me to that point, but they couldn't bring me back from where I was. And one day, John I got better. That was it. My vitals got better, everything got better. They uh took out the trach tube, took out the pump, and uh woke me up. And I was in there for another couple of days, and they came in at three o'clock in the morning and says, Hey, you got to pack up and get out. And I said, What do you mean? They said, You're not sick enough to be in here anymore, and somebody else is. I said, Well, then get them in here and get them help, you know. And and so I stayed for probably 16 or 17 days overall.

SPEAKER_03 11:18

So that was that was three years ago. Almost, yeah. And then so was it your lifestyle that caused the heart attack, or was it a hereditary? What was it?

SPEAKER_02 11:27

Probably a little bit of everything. I think, you know, now and even prior, many, many years prior to the heart attack, I've had a very good lifestyle. You know, but in the past, you know, when I was a kid, I was a kid, uh fast food junkie, you know. We grew up poor, didn't eat right, you know, and just ate a bunch of junk, drank the sodas and the breakfast cereals and all the stuff that's today I know to be absolute poison.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

So were you doing any homesteading before this whole episode?

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Uh yes, actually. You were. Yeah. It was, it was, it was just prior damage. I mean, I used to I used to tell people I'd smoke like I was on fire and drink like I was trying to put it out, you know? So that that that takes its toll.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

So so so now, uh you and your wife, uh you have our two-acre world. Tell us about your your YouTube channel. Sure, what it's all about.

SPEAKER_02 12:16

So um we have two acres, which we've had for a long time. We've been out here in Quad City for 14 years, I think almost 15 years. And we've always, even before that, prior, have uh grown our own vegetables and fruits. We've always had livestock, uh, we've always had fresh eggs. We've always had those kinds of things. Um I think the things that happened to me were because of my prior life. Um been with my wife Donna for 36 years, who is just a gift from God. You know how that works, right? And um she's been my protector and my savior. She's what a beautiful human being she is. I just love her so dearly.

SPEAKER_03 12:51

Ah, it's beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

And uh, at any rate, she's really, really the heavy-duty gardener. She loves to garden, loves to play in the dirt and all that. And she's got a really heavy-duty asthma situation. So she struggles with that, you know. So I said, you know, we have unique challenges. We we're seniors.

SPEAKER_04 13:05

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

You know, she's 68, I'm 62, and uh there's unique challenges. You can't get up and down like you used to. There's just a lot of things that change as you start to age. You hit a plateau, and then with my heart attack and a stroke, there's a stroke on top of all that other mess. Um, it became even harder to get around and do things. And I said, you know, I've always wanted to start a YouTube channel. I had one in the past. I was a sales trainer many, many years ago. I've got videos that are 15, 18 years old still up from sales training back in the day. And I so I'm I'm familiar with that. I'm familiar with you know, video editing like this gentleman here does, and and uh videotaping and sound and those. I'm familiar with all those things. I said, why don't we just put all that together and make a YouTube channel uh about homesteading and as best as we can target it towards seniors?

SPEAKER_03 13:53

Okay, good.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

Uh because there's a lot of seniors that want to do that.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

You know who your avatar is.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

So um, so that's what we did. So we started out about a year ago, I guess. We're just approaching 900 subscribers and a couple thousand watch hours. And and um we're not just we're not just in a niche, we're in a micro niche because homesteading um has a lot of parts to it. It's not just a vegetable garden. Uh it's not now, just to kind of get into homesteading for a minute, if we could, um it's not like homesteading is uh a uh a whole thing and a single thing. What I mean by that is you can simply grow something to feed yourself. And in our opinion, you're homesteading to a degree. You're growing your own tomatoes because you don't want the crummy tomatoes that are at the store with no flavor and sprayed to change colors, and you know how that all goes. If you don't want any of that and you're growing even a little bit of your own food, you're homesteading. You don't have to have the livestock and the chickens and the ducks and the horses. That's another part of homesteading. It's another part of homesteading. And you can keep adding on to that. Having an aviary, having an aviary, having a greenhouse, having the garden outdoors, uh, which we have all of that, you know, with the winds that we have here, and we get some heavy winter sometimes. We haven't had any, you know, this has been a good winter. It's been a warm one. It's this has been a this has been a yeah, it's been a comfortable winter. We had no water, though, is the problem. We are monsoon's kind of getting lame, you know, and that's a sidetrack. The more we build, the less ground moisture we have to raise up to create the monsoon. So I'm watching the houses go up and I'm watching the monsoon taper out. Taper out. I don't know if they're related, but it seems pretty um causality related to me.

SPEAKER_03 15:32

Uh it could be. You know, uh last year, Megan uh Chuck was kind enough to come to our Northern Arizona homesteading conference, and he documented the whole thing. And it was so kind to you, and it felt it was right in line with what you were doing, right?

SPEAKER_02 15:46

It was perfect. Yeah, it was it was kind of twofold. It's like, hey, we can give these folks some advertising, you know, for for for this time around and hopefully next time if it comes up this year. We had some changes there, of course, as you mentioned. But uh yeah, we just wanted to bring awareness uh more than anything. And with the channel, the awareness is uh, you know, it doesn't matter if you're 60 or 70 years old, you can still do these things. You can still do these things.

SPEAKER_03 16:07

And you can cut down on things that are processed, you know, grow your own mint and make your own mint tea. Simple things like that. Right. Anybody can do that, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Especially where we live.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

You know, our our area here is so perfect, I guess is the word I'm gonna use for homesteading, you know, especially we had close to a thousand people at our homesteading conference, and we we may do it again. It just uh, you know, my focus on actually growing food is my passion. So it was a little bit of a mission creep for us. But so you you you're passionate about homesteading, and then how did you get involved with the series from Angel Studios Homestead?

SPEAKER_02 16:47

Um real simply, we were part of we're subscribers to the network, so we can watch their programs. And they sent out an email to all of their subscribers for season one and said, Hey, we're looking for extras for for season one, and you can apply here. And my wife said, Hey, let's apply. So we did, and they called us up and said, Hey, come, you know, if you can come up to Utah, to Salt Lake City, a little town called Bountiful, just north of Salt Lake. They said, Um, we'll we'll we'll we'll see what we can do.

SPEAKER_03 17:11

And you've been on it for almost every show.

SPEAKER_02 17:13

No, no, no, no, not at all, not at all. I'd just been on uh season one, uh episode eight, and uh we just uh I got invited back for season two, and I just returned this last week. I saw the pictures. Yeah, from a little town called Coleville, which is about an hour north of Salt Lake, where they filmed up on a farm, uh, which was great. It was a different part, um again, just extra, but it was a different part for me before I was part of a militia group trying to storm the homestead, and this time I'm part of a kind of a crazy fanatical religious group also trying to storm the homestead.

SPEAKER_03 17:45

You're you're gonna but watch out, you're gonna be typecast. Yeah, who knows? So, so Chuck, you know, your story's amazing, uh, your journey's amazing. You know, one of the reasons that we do this show is to give people hope and inspiration. And I mean, if you could be one percent chance uh to live and and be here sitting with us, that's a miracle from God, right? No question. And and so do you have that gratitude and appreciation that this is all extra time, like you've just been given a gift?

SPEAKER_02 18:18

Yeah. Initially I uh uh my faith has always been there, but it's been strengthened tremendously. And a lot of time in prayer, uh Lord, you saved me has to be for a reason. Has to be. What am I here for? What am I here for? What am I here for? And all I've heard from the Lord in that regard, Sean, is uh I want you to see something. So something is going to happen. I don't know what it is, but the Lord wants me to watch something happen.

SPEAKER_03 18:47

That's why He's keeping you here.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't know what his plan is. I wish we did. You know, I wish it was more clear, but I can tell you that not only is my face stronger than ever, but I can tell you that if I I've had three uh visions, if you'll call them, since the heart attack. Uh one was of, if I if I may, share this. Um one was of um this is difficult. One was of myself uh out of my body, in the cath lab, in the corner of the room, up at the ceiling. Like you were observing. I was I was observing, and I was on the table. I couldn't see me because I was surrounded by people all gowned up. And um the Lord was next to me. Wow. And his hands were out like this around these people. Okay, it was a vision that fast. It was while my wife was driving me home. When I went back to work, I went back part-time because that's all I could handle. Still all I can handle. Actually, people uh look at me and don't understand what I've been through because I act kind of normal, but there's a lot of normal that's gone. Um the the next so the Lord was next to me in the cat's lab. The next vision I have was several months later, and it was me laying on the floor in my living room, my wife next to me, and my son standing up on the phone, and uh the Lord standing over me. Excuse me, the Lord standing over me, just over my body while I'm laying on the ground. And the third one was in the ambulance, and it was the Lord in between me laying on the gurney and you being the paramedic at the foot of my bed, foot of my gurney, and the Lord in between me and him. He was interceding on your behalf, yeah. Every step of the way, I was with you, I was with you, I was with you.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

Uh we know that that's a fact, but you got visions of it. That's an extra special thing. So somebody who wants to start homesteading. Yes, somebody who uh is recovering from a heart attack or a stroke or both, what's your recommendation on first of all, the homestead? What would you how would you start doing a homestead?

SPEAKER_02 20:47

Well, it depends on where you are. So basically start with what you have, where where you're at. Uh the trick, it's like with anything. You got to take action. You simply have to start. And it doesn't matter if it's something as simple as some medicinal herbs on your windowsill, if it's some tomatoes on the front porch. It doesn't matter how small or how large it is. If you're blessed to have a piece of property, we don't have a lot, but we got enough. Two acres is actually a lot of land. The horses have, you know, three-quarters of it, probably, you know, with with their corrals and what have you. But we have a massive garden. We have probably a 16 or 170 or 1,800 square foot garden, and it's getting bigger all the time. Um, start with what you have, though. You don't need a lot of property. If you've got a small yard, get a raised bed. Get some good quality soil and put it in there. Watch what you're putting in there. Um, I'll get you some manure, you know, I've got extra. Um make sure you put good quality soil in there, stuff. You have to be careful what you're putting into your soil as far as amending. If you go to the store and buy the fertilizers and things, they're all, and this you know, thing in the Middle East is coming true here. We're seeing that um uh fertilizers are getting curtailed because why would they get curtailed from the Middle East? Yeah, the question looks The question mark on your head.

SPEAKER_01 22:01

Actually, did the question mark kind of popping up the top of my head? So I know that I have watched like the Marty Rainey show that I was talking with you about with a homestead rescue. Obsessed with it, right? I make my husband watch it all the time. So I've seen them build these chicken coops where they're portable and they can move them over as fertilizer in areas.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

Yeah, it's a chicken tractor.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

Oh, your chickens are they're protected from predators.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Uh they won't be wandering around and wandering off. And you can delegate by just pulling this thing around. It's usually just you just lift up on one side, it's got wheels on the backside, and you just drag it along with it to another part of your yard to fertilize it. My point was that uh try to stay away from petroleum-based fertilizers. The fertilizers you're going to find in the store, they're nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, uh, MPK, they're petroleum-based. Um our pharmaceuticals are petroleum-based, which is frightening to me because I'm on a few have to be. Um, but we need to get away from those things because those things are slowly but surely they're toxins and they're poisoning our bodies.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

Well, Chuck, I see you have uh you have some.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

I brought you some treats. So part of uh homesteading for us is preserving. Okay. So Don and my wife will preserve by canning. Okay. And uh we preserve what we eat. And we've also recently gotten into, in the last year or so, into freeze drying. We've got a pretty good size, medium-sized uh freeze dryer, and that has allowed us to have a different method of preserving our fruits and our vegetables that we grow in the garden, uh, which is quite a bit. I mean, we're growing carrots and onions and asparagus and artichokes, a number of different berries, corn, uh, wheat, amaranth, uh, beets like crazy because I love beets, you know, and uh the beets freeze-dry well. But we also do treats. And uh you can take some candies and some uh things, we probably shouldn't be even as far as heart health, but some treats that, you know, it's all about it's uh it's okay to cheat a little bit. But I brought you some um caramel hem and hams freeze-dried, which are just decadent treats. And then I brought you some freeze-dried marshmallows as well. But to be at heart healthy, I brought you some uh some farm fresh eggs uh from from our chickens, and I'd like you to have those.

SPEAKER_03 24:14

Well, thank you, Chuck. You're a gentleman. Um on behalf of Megan and Cecilia and our whole team here at the Make 100 Healthy Club podcast. We're honored to have you on. Thank you. Uh, we're so grateful that you're here. You're you're you know, you're here for a reason. And that's to continue to inspire people. And you know, when we talk about let's get growing, this was a great segment.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Definitely.

SPEAKER_03 24:36

And that uh we'd like you to stick around for our next segment, which is the heart of the matter. The heart of the matter, of course, sometimes talks about cardiac health, and sometimes it talks about uh issues of the heart, and sometimes it's a combination of both. And Megan, uh, you know, we've become friends, and uh, you recently shared with me that you got a diagnosis of uh of Hashimoto's disease. Yeah. And so I'm first of all, very sorry that you're going through this, but you know, I know that you're a fighter, and I know that you are gonna turn these lemons into lemonade. So, first of all, how are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 25:18

You know, doing good. So until I really sat down and got an understanding of what Hashimoto's is, which I'll explain in just a second. Um, you know, you're like my brain just went to like the furthest point of the universe, like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna die. I have this disease, I have no idea what it is, right? That's exactly where we're human, you know. So that was my first thought. Call my husband. My my doctor just said I have Hashimoto's. You know, of course I'm a woman, so we're theatrical. And uh he goes, Well, you're not dying. And I said, Okay, okay. So we started doing, you know, a lot of research. Um, my primary care is amazing, very holistic approach. You know, not all these cram this medication down your throat. First thing we're doing is starting with lifestyle changes.

SPEAKER_03 26:09

Okay. So what let let's let's go back to to for people that have heard, we've all heard of Hashimoto's disease. What is it? Uh to the best, I know it's an autoimmune date.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

So Hashimoto's is an autoimmune condition um where the immune system um mistakenly attached your thyroid. And it's um so your thyroid is in your neck and it's a small gland, and um it controls stuff like your energy, um, your metabolism, your mood. Um and over time it can just break everything down.

SPEAKER_03 26:47

So that's so what was it that made you realize you had an issue?

SPEAKER_01 26:53

So well, it was actually hormones. Hormones were off, and that is where we kind of started. She did a hormone panel and my thyroid antibodies were nowhere where they were supposed to be. That led to realizing that I had what's called leaky gut, which sounds gross. It's so the stomach lining to explain it as um so like when we eat pig and pork, um, pork is something that is very natural, like our stomach lining. And so it kind of helps mend that. Well, I don't eat meat, fish, chicken. Yes, I know I'm a vegetarian. Um, and so therefore my body doesn't get that.

SPEAKER_03 27:35

And she thinks that that is partially how it led to natural uh veget uh vegetarian-based diet backfires.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

So maybe a little, but there there's this, it's it's also as genetics as well, you know, because it can be hereditary. Um, no one else in my family has been diagnosed with that that we know of yet. This is all, like I said, all new territory exploring um other things that have been different. It's also explained like the hair loss that comes with it, uh, the lack of energy, the mood. Um so you're now you're in it.

SPEAKER_03 28:13

Oh, I'm in it. You're in it. I'm in it. And you're gonna fight getting through this. Can you get through it? Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Okay, you know what? It is completely manageable as long as you manage it and you consistently stay on top of it.

SPEAKER_03 28:24

All right. So we're gonna we're gonna keep in touch with you every show. We're gonna check in to see how you're doing.

SPEAKER_01 28:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:30

And uh so talk talk about some of the lifestyle changes that you're implementing that are gonna help you on this journey.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

Lifestyle changes. The biggest one for me, the first are two of them diet and the way that we exercise. Okay. I should say the way I exercise. Um, I was like a heavy, hardcore, do a hard workout. I can't physically do a hard workout anymore. It's too much. It makes my joints swell. Stress. Stress is another massive trigger for it.

SPEAKER_03 28:58

And so we live in a stressful society.

SPEAKER_01 29:02

And it it's it's gotten to the point where I've done so much reading and joined so many different groups, you know, like on Facebook, Instagram.

SPEAKER_03 29:08

So you're not alone, are you?

SPEAKER_01 29:09

No, absolutely not. And then what really kind of opened my eyes up is I did a Facebook post on my own personal page a couple weeks ago, you know, saying I was recently diagnosed with this. And does if anybody has any information or anything, you know, share with me. I'd love to hear your thoughts, your tips, your tricks, anything that you have found successful or what didn't work.

SPEAKER_04 29:31

Right.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

Fill me in on your journey.

SPEAKER_03 29:33

And you got a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

And I have had so much feedback.

SPEAKER_03 29:36

You know, the the we know people talk about social media, you know, there's a lot of negativity, but that's one of the positive things because I think we all have loving hearts.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 29:47

And so uh, well, we're gonna be praying for you, and you know, I I asked Chuck to stick around because Chuck, you have your own Hashimonos uh story.

SPEAKER_02 29:58

I was actually diagnosed uh probably 16, 17 years ago. And um I was getting tired, is how it started. And then I started getting sicker and sicker and more tired, and more things were going wrong, and more things were happening. And I got so sick I thought I had cancer. I have to go to the doctor. I'm like a typical man, you know, I don't want to go to the doctor until I'm dying. Well, I thought I was dying, so I finally went to the doctor and he says, Okay, we're gonna run you through all the blood work and take, you know, take a good look, what's going on? Uh I came back a week later and says, I need you to come in, I need you to bring your wife. Okay. So I'm thinking I'm, you know, getting a death sentence here. Anyways, he says, uh, hey, the good news is your kidney's fine, your liver's fine, this is fine, this is fine, this is fine. He said, But it's your thyroid. I said, What about it? He says, It's gone. I says, It's gone. He says, Yeah, you've got something called Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and your body attacked your thyroid and killed it. You're supposed to be between 0.3 and 3 on your TSH, and I was at 57.

unknown 30:52

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

Yeah, I was, and he said, You feel like you're dying? He said, Because you are.

SPEAKER_04 30:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

He says, it's just slow. Your thyroid regulates every organ in your body. So when she mentions I'm tired of my joints hurt, and I'm and this and this and this, that's not all there is to it. You are literally falling apart at the seams if your thyroid's not working correctly.

SPEAKER_03 31:10

So did you get your thyroid back in sync?

SPEAKER_02 31:13

So um through medication, he says the good news is I can I can fix it. You know, it's a very common medication, and and uh we gotta we gotta bring you up slowly because you're so far off, you know. So it took him nine months to actually dial me in because I was so far off, he didn't want to shock my system. Finally got it dialed in. Finally got it, finally got it dialed in, and I felt better, of course. And that was going on um for many, many, many years. Well, well, a decade and a half. And then I have the heart attack and the stroke.

SPEAKER_03 31:43

And uh do you think there was any correlation?

SPEAKER_02 31:46

I don't know. I'm I'm thinking there is, and I'll tell you why. So I go back to the doctor after a while. The heart attack passes. You know, I've got a year and a half probably that it's passed, right? And I'm not feeling well. I'm not feeling right. I said, I'm gonna go to the doctor. My cardiologist says, go to your primary kid, get some blood work, let's see what's going on. He calls me up and says, uh, I need you to come in. Okay, you never want to hear that, right? And I come in and he says, it's your Hashimoto's. And I said, okay, what about it? He says, I don't get it, but it's gone. I said, it's gone. He says, Yeah, your antibodies are no longer there. And your Hashimoto's is gone. We need to adjust your meds. You feel bad because your meds are so far off because you're on meds for Hashimoto's and you don't have Hashimoto's anymore. Hey, good hopes. So he said, it's extremely rare that that happens, but he says it does on a very, very rare occasion. So I he does not know if the trauma did something to my body. Chemically that switched it off, switched it on, whatever it is, but they they do not know what happened, but my Hashima.

SPEAKER_03 32:48

This is a good story. No kidding.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

Disappeared, at least for now. He says, Well, keep an eye on it, of course, if you feel bad. You'll come on in, we'll go once a year and do some blood work and and uh keep an eye on it. You know, and I would I would I would share with people too that uh the the blood work I have found out over this story of mine that uh it's it's really, really critical. It's such an easy thing to do. It is so fast and so easy to do, but can tell you so much about your physical body if something's going wrong, because you got to catch it. You have to catch it, you know. In this day and age, I've got friends in their 40s fighting cancer. I mean, multiple friends, you know, in their 30s, 40s, and 50s that are just going through some traumatic health crisis, and I feel terrible for them. But we just have to stay on top of things anymore because we're exposed, and you talk about it all the time, the toxins and the poisons and the microplastics.

SPEAKER_03 33:37

You know, a lot of those people's uh ailments and and tumors and cancers are environmentally caused. Yeah. And then, of course, with uh the heavy vaccination schedule and the glycophate in the ground, which is poisoning our, you know, they said that uh people that have gluten allergies have soared since the adoption of glycophate in Megan.

SPEAKER_02 34:03

They don't have a gluten allergy, they have a glycophate. It's what they have. They're allergic to poison, you know. Go figure.

SPEAKER_03 34:09

Well, Chuck, thank you for being here. Yes. And uh, we're gonna check out your show. Uh and that's a two-acre world. Our two-acre world.

SPEAKER_02 34:17

Who you are the number two acre world uh on on YouTube. And you'll see a picture of me and my wife in black and white as a little logo. And and yeah, all different kinds of things on there, and something will appeal to somebody on the homestead.

SPEAKER_03 34:29

Well, thank you, sir. You're you're doing God's work, and uh we're blessed to have you on the show. And we'll be back. We're gonna take a deep breath right after this short brief message from Visiting Angels.

SPEAKER_04 34:44

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SPEAKER_03 34:51

Yes, we love those visiting angels. I love that song. So, Megan, we are gonna take a deep breath. And this segment is always about things that are on our mind, things that we may not think about, but we know we have to. And there's two things here. Number one, I try to eat eat and use natural products. I don't use underarm deodorant any longer, I use baking soda, uh, black sea toothpaste, natural shampoo, natural soaps. I'm doing what I can, but I still use sprays that are from the store for um my um uh cleaning solution. And so I want to change that, and we're gonna talk about that. And then uh I've been reading so much about the power of nature and these elixirs that can actually help me improve my sight. Because I'm really thinking I have I might have a little bit of a cataract and I wear contact lenses, and I have bad sight. So uh my my I've been putting it off for a long time to go get you know the eye surgery because I know some people have problems with that. So I'm a little nervous if I could do it naturally, how great would that be? So let's first of all talk about the DIY, do-it-yourself house cleaner.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

Um DIY citrus rosemary cleaner? Is that the one you're talking about? That's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 36:22

So this is something that you can do at home. So uh it comes with you take one or two lemons, you get the uh the peels.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

And then you've got the rosemary springs in it. You've got a jar of vinegar.

SPEAKER_03 36:34

You have a half a jar of apple cider vinegar with a half part water water, and then it has to sit in the right. You can infuse it for a week or two.

SPEAKER_01 36:43

Yes, and then you can use it to spray and clean.

SPEAKER_03 36:46

And you could put a little eucalyptus or peppermint in. For that scent. So uh this is a natural elixir. Uh, we're gonna bring it on to our next show. I'm gonna make it actually. I just ran out of time. And something that uh I've really been thinking about is my eyesight. So uh there's three different recipes I'm gonna share with you, and I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna document my journey, and hopefully I'll have better vision, but for now I've got to put on the readers. Okay, a morning boost. It's funny how lemons are part of so many things from cleaning solution to eye tonics. Two lemons, four garlic cloves, two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and honey, and you let that sit and infuse, and then you take one spoonful in the morning for 30 days. That's what I'm going to do, and let's see what happens. Okay. A bedtime elixir is four tablespoons of lemon, one tablespoon of garlic, five tablespoons of olive oil, you infuse that overnight, and then you take one tablespoon every night for seven nights, and you're supposed to get an increased vision. And then our carrot vision tonic, which makes sense. They say carrots are good for your eyes, but they're so much more. So you take one grated carrot, you take lemon juice, three tablespoons of honey, you infuse for 24 hours, and you take one spoon daily. Not only will that help your eyesight, it will also help your liver detox and also make your skin glow. So those are a few tips that we're gonna implement ourselves, because living to 100 is no joy if you don't take care of yourself along the journey. So these are things that we're doing. And the idea is to implement small incremental changes all the time. So, you know, you just keep yourself going forward, and everything's a balance. Chuck gave us some candies. I'm eating them, damn it. I don't care. But I'm also, I was uh working out this morning and I took a steam. So uh that that's really what we're here for. To take a deep breath and to think about little things you can do to make you a little bit healthier, a little bit more vibrant than you were yesterday. And that's how we get to 100, right?

SPEAKER_01 39:11

All those natural tips and tricks that we can just learn along the way, you know, that are easy to easily repeatable. Very easy and put them into it.

SPEAKER_03 39:19

It's easy to do, but you know, we don't think about it because you know, our generations of of, you know, over the generations we've been taught to be reliant on big companies to tell us and medicine and pharma on what to do, how to stay healthy when we have the power ourselves. And that's really the message is we all have the power to take care of ourselves. And let's see what happens with this uh vision deal. I'm really hoping that I can be a great testimonial. And so uh go moving on. This show I told you was going to be emotional. So uh this week's Arlene's Angel Spotlight is none other than my family member, my sister Andrea, AJ, who called me and left a text. She goes, I'm sorry, I didn't see you on Easter, but uh I have something important to tell you. And you know, she doesn't ever talk like that. So right away I'm like, something's not good. And she shared with me that she has stage one breast cancer, and she's scared. Uh she has struggled with her weight, struggled with sleep, she's got a stressful life, she uh is an audiologist, and so she works a pretty robust schedule. She stays up late, she just hasn't taken care of herself, and so she is in a situation where her body is, you know, telling her there's a problem. And so when you get a cancer diagnosis, it doesn't have to be the end at all. It can actually be the aha moment that you take control of your own life. Cancer is a sneaky, cunning animal, but the fact of the matter is, is that we have a lot of power to be able to um improve our terrain, our bodies. And so when my sister told me what what it was, I felt compelled. And I actually had a dream that my dad said, you got to take care of your sister. You know, you have a show, make 100 healthy podcast. I do a lot of these things myself, you do, Cecilia does. But if you don't help those that you love during the time when they need it most most, what are we doing? What are you doing? Yep. So um I we talked right away, and our first thing the doctors were saying, you know, partial mass actomy, full mass actomy, uh, you know, uh radiation, chemo. And I said, Whoa. I go, whoa. I said, I'm not telling you you won't decide to do those things, but let's get your body, let's take care of the things we can right now to strengthen your body. So I'm very blessed to say that she called me and said, John, I got a naturopath, holistic doctor that is very much conservative on the radical treatment. You know, radiation and chemo have helped a lot of people, but they've also hurt a lot of people. And and then they can be helped to beat the cancer, but then you have radiation poisoning. I subscribe to the belief that the least amount of invasive procedure you can do on your body, the better it is, and the more you can do naturally. So she is embracing uh number one, uh getting all processed foods out of her diet. That's huge for her. No sodas. Okay, so bad. Uh we talked about doing a 72-hour fast, which 72 hours you put your body into autophagy autophagy. That's easy for me to say. And that's where your your cells start eating on itself, and it usually uh eats on the bad cells first. Uh but a less extreme thing for someone who has a problem with weight, they're already going to be very hungry. Her doctor subscribed and prescribed her to do intermittent fasting. So she started to do intermittent fasting. I try to do that myself. You know, honey does not break your fast. You can have honey and bone broth. Honey doesn't break the fast, which is amazing to me that it doesn't. Uh she is uh lives in Vero Beach, Florida. Okay. Andrea, you have the beach right there, getting in touch with nature, walking in the sand, getting in touch with the Schumann's residence of the world, the the um 7.83 hertz. You will get tuned, you get your body's her body's out of frequency. And so um as As a big brother should, I went the other night. I got her castor oil packs so she could put on her breast and on her belly because she has an inflame situation. Uh I got her the coil of silver with the comedian and uh oregano. I got her Celtic salt. I got her borox to take a bath uh with Bentonite clay and um Epsom salt. These are all things that she's not done. Okay, she has to hydrate. So uh she has to go to bed earlier. Andrew, are you listening? You have to go to bed earlier. You got to cut out all the sweets and the treats because they're not treats, they're poisoning you. Yeah, poison. You're gonna hydrate and you're gonna have an attitude of uh gratitude and you're gonna beat this. So, you know, uh when my mom was going through the worst stages, and my dad was uh onerous and he was very angry because you know he had no control over what was happening to my mom. Andrea, my sister, was the one that lived in Florida. She was there as much as she could be, and those were not pleasant trips. My dad wasn't the nice, gentle soul that we remembered him as back then. So, Andrea, you have this. And for anybody who is diagnosed with cancer, Hashimoto's disease, any ailment, just know one thing. You heard Chuck Morgan before, the power of prayer, the power of loving each other. There's something that's not just physical, but spiritual that can help us heal. So, Andrea, I want you to go full throttle ahead. Do not be fearful. As uh dad and mom said, be strong and courageous, do not be afraid. God is with you, you know that. And making you two. So uh again.

SPEAKER_01 45:53

I I understand what you're going through. My mom is a stage four breast cancer survivor. Wow. Stage four. Um, she has great full mass sexual. But it is, you can't, she can't fight. She can get through it. You know what I mean? Yeah, of course. I mean, you know, it's never too late now until it's yeah, I mean, like it was it was bad.

SPEAKER_03 46:16

Listen, people's resilience, your, your, your, your will to live, your desire to live longer. The only thing I say to people is when you get that gift, when you get that blessing, look at Chuck. He's taking his life and he's giving back. And that's what, you know, we're we're here to help and serve others. And that's what this show is about as well. And that's why we want you to go to the Make 100 Healthy Club forward slash uh make100healthy.com forward slash club. Join our club, be part of our community. We're growing, we're here for each other to support. You know, you may not have anybody in your family or your friends that are sick now, but unfortunately it happens. And there's turbo cancers and there's rampant diabetes, and and you know what? Largely we can address these things holistically and only use the advanced medicines when you absolutely have to. So uh anyway, uh that's uh this week's focus. Andrea, we're praying for you. We're pulling for you. You got to do your part. And Megan, same thing with you. Uh, you know, we're praying for you. Uh, we want you to continue to, you know, keep us up to date on how your healing journey is going, because that's what it is. It's a healing journey. It's not, you know, I have a disease. This is your healing journey. Mindset is a very important thing. And uh moving right along to our next segment, your longevity blueprint. I love this segment because this is all the positive things. These are the things that we can do, that we should do, that gives us the energy, the vitality from eating right, from being social, from exercising, from you know, uh having gratitude.

SPEAKER_04 48:02

Right.

SPEAKER_03 48:02

All these things are part of living a very vibrant life. But we have to understand that we have to work our bodies. We have to, we cannot be sedentary. And at any age, you need to keep moving because either you move it or you.

SPEAKER_01 48:21

I gotta tell you, my husband has said that to me more times than I can count. And if he were sitting right now, he'd go, I told you so. There you go. Your husband tell me, you gotta keep moving. You can't just sit, you gotta keep moving, you gotta keep moving, you gotta just go for a walk at least.

SPEAKER_03 48:35

You know what? It's so easy, especially when you're not feeling well. It's just I don't want to do something. But half the battle in life is showing up, getting up and moving. And 99.9% of the time, you don't regret doing that. But if you don't do it, you will. So uh I'm gonna give you the 60, a 60 motivation, okay? But this could be five. It could be one, actually, it could be five, 10, 20, or 100, okay? These are uh the power of 60, okay? 60 push-ups. I can do them right now, and I'm gonna be 64 years old any day. So uh I'm nothing special, but I practice 60 push-ups, 60 um squats, do 60 squats at one time. It's amazing what your body can do and keeps your trunk very, very strong, your core strong. Okay, 60 lunges in place, forward and backwards, forward and backwards. A 60-second wall squat, that is amazing to do that. And finally, um a 60-second plank where you're you do those things and you don't really have to do anything else. You do those things and you'll be a healthy person. So, again, if you can't do 60, that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 50:02

Do five.

SPEAKER_03 50:03

Do one. Yeah, just do it.

SPEAKER_01 50:06

Do whatever you feel you can do.

SPEAKER_03 50:08

And so, you know, this is a very simple longevity blueprint segment today, but pick a number, whether it's you know, five, 10, 50, but 60, something about 60. It's a minute, right? 60 push-ups, 60 squats, 60 lunges, 60 wall planks, right? And also, um, what's the last one? Oh, 60-second plank. So um I do this quite a bit. And uh when I travel, especially, these are all things you can do without equipment.

SPEAKER_01 50:44

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 50:45

So that's this week's uh tip at our longevity blueprint. And that brings us to our last segment, uh, which today is so appropriate. It's called Gratitudes and Blessing. And uh, I gotta tell you, in the crazy world that we live in, it's really sometimes hard to be grateful or to feel blessed. Uh, but if you get past the chatter, the onslaught from the world, guess what? The earth is a beautiful place. Our families are beautiful, our neighbors, our friends. We have so many good people that do good things, charitable people, but you know, the news, they only focus on the bad stuff. There's a lot of bad stuff out there, and we're not oblivious to that. But if you choose to live with an attitude of gratitude, you ascend yourself above the fray. You're not in the fray, you're above the fray. When you're above the fray, what happens? You can see clearer because you're above the fray. That's what we all we all pray to do. And for you, Megan, I want to pray for you and for your journey. Uh, this is not a um a no-brainer, but you got this.

SPEAKER_00 52:01

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:02

And you know, we're you have a whole army of supporters out there. And uh for Chuck, we wish him uh uh you know continued good health. What a great guy, what a salt of the art guy. Um the fact he's he's an extra on uh uh you know a series called Homestead is just cool.

SPEAKER_01 52:21

My sister has his own small homestead. Yeah, he has his own small homestead.

SPEAKER_03 52:25

Oh, you know, it's cool. He had a 99% probability of dying, yet he's doing all these things. And that's the blessings of God. So today we're gonna give thanks to our creator. We're gonna give thanks to the Lord above, whatever that is, the source of the world to you, Mother Nature. Uh, we are living in the most beautiful time in the world. And together, we can make this world a better place and striving for longevity. But we always say we don't want to just live a long life. We want with health, happiness, and purpose. If you can do those three things, you're gonna want to live infinitely forever, right? So uh we want to thank our sponsors today. We have some great sponsors. Uh, first of all, Rox Media, Preskit Healthy Living, Preskit, Living, Prescott Now magazines. Lori Fisher, thank you for your wonderful sponsorship. Uh, we have Dignity Health, thank you, Dignity Health, for supporting everything that we're doing. Uh, Finley Subaru, um, Sunset, uh Southwest Sunset Homes, and Serenity at Stringfield, a new development happening, the Blind Brothers, Silver Sands Recovery, Visiting Angels, Make 100 Healthy, and of course, your favorite realtor, John James Murphy PC. So, Megan, thank you for filling me for um this is John Murphy saying nothing but thanks. We hope that you have a great week, and we uh continue to wish you a healthy, happy, and a purposeful life. And that's how we can make 100 healthy. Yes, you can, but it doesn't happen by accident. So take some action. Take care.