Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast. So serious illnesses like cancer, heart disease, dementia, and metabolic syndrome are often thought of as things that simply happen to us. In fact, just last night I was seeing a commercial about this poor unfortunate person that just happened to get stricken with type 2 diabetes, that we have no real control over. But my guest today, Sayer G, says the opposite is true, and I actually completely agree with him, and I'm actually delighted to have him on the program today. Sayer is the founder of the Health Database, which I subscribe to, GreenMed Info. And the author of the book, Regenerate, loved the title, Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience Through New Biology. He says, and I completely agree that eating right, exercising, and stress relief can have a greater impact on your health than your actual DNA. In fact, Sayer was able to transform himself from, in his own words, an overweight, inactive, asthmatic with a bum hip to a marathon running natural health advocate who hasn't used medication in decades. So on this episode of the Dr. Gunnery podcast, and you gotta stay tuned, we're going to talk about how you can transform your health with food and the lies that can actually be holding you back. Sayer, welcome to the program. Thank you, Dr. Gunnery. I so appreciate the opportunity and I'm just very fond of your work, so it's an honor to be here. Well, it's great to have you on the program. So you're the picture of health, but as a child it was quite the opposite. Can you give me a quick overview about your early health history? Because there's a lot of stuff we really want to dive into, but it's a great story. Sure. Well, when I came into the world at six months of age, I was diagnosed with severe bronchial asthma. Really by accident. Actually, my sister was in the waiting room with my mom and she was there for her to your checkup, and they saw that I had these classical symptoms of asthma. So they did some tests and needless to say, for 17 years of my life thereafter, I was pretty much dependent on inhalers and I had steroid medications, I had various surgeries like adenoids removed, et cetera, and it was quite an entry into the world of not feeling very healthy, not feeling very connected, and just really struggling a lot. So, you know, my interest in natural healing, if you will, was sort of a life-death necessity because it was only until I was 17 that I discovered that I was allergic to cow's milk, and by removing it, asthma went into complete remission. So it was quite my awakening point there. So did you, speaking of cow's milk, did it just suddenly occur to you one day, hey, every time I have a glass of milk or have a piece of cheese, this happens to me, or what happened? Well, no, I sort of had like a hippie tree-hugging sister in college who introduced me to the local co-op there at Rutgers in New Brunswick, and they had this book by Dr. Bernard Jensen, which was tissue cleansing through bowel management, and they showed all these amazing pictures of people healing themselves of conventional treatment refractories psoriasis with just removing certain foods in the diet and cleansing the bowel of what appeared to be really grotesque, accumulated, impacted stool. So it was sort of shocking, and I started to kind of put the dots together, and I just felt like, OK, let's give this a try. It's, quote, mucus forming, so let's remove it and see what happens. And voila, there it was. So what were the biggest changes you saw, besides your asthma going away, when you changed your diet and lifestyle? Well, I mean, for me, it was so liberating to know, first of all, that I no longer needed to be, you know, saddled with these medications. Throughout my childhood, I was regularly rushed to the hospital and injected with epinephrine to keep my lungs open. It was a rather terrifying experience because it's basically adrenaline. So, you know, having been able to slip that off and start to understand that food has such a powerful effect, both as you have been such a great advocate of, you know, adverse effects, things in food that maybe aren't so good like lectins. And then we have the beneficial aspects, which are tremendous. So it really got me excited and deeply passionate about the topic. And I spent a lot of time exploring, you know, what things would work for me. And what what so did this, you know, health journey prompt you to start green med info or how did that come about? It was a long process.  And eventually ended up working as a health educator and manager of a health food store chain in Southwest Florida. And that's where I really started to realize it was it was like lemmings. Well, you know, in terms of everyone needed to find answers, but they were going through conventional, you know, sort of almost pill mill like situations that they go to the health food store and look for natural alternatives. And then they had the other side of the equation where there are a lot of claims and anecdotes and, you know, some hyperbolic marketing. So they wanted to have evidence. So what I realized at the time is PubMed is this amazing resource, 30 million citations at present. And why don't we just go and check out to see what PubMed says? And I was just shocked to find how many studies seem to confirm what a lot of those are of natural health advocates or some would call quacks. We're saying actually works. So so it was really an eye opener. And that's got got me interested in accumulating a database of research. And that's really how Green Med Info started. So in your new book, Regenerate, you say that DNA is not a blueprint. What do you mean by this? I know I talk about it in longevity paradox, but explain for our listeners, how come our DNA doesn't tell isn't everything that's going to happen to us? It's a great question. And so what's so amazing is after the first draft of the human human genome project was completed in 2005, people were shocked that there were only about 20,000 protein coding genes in the human genome. It's astounding because there's about 100,000 proteins in a single cell. So that discrepancy made people realize that there had to be more to the picture. And that's when you started to hear about epigenetics or factors beyond the control of the genes. And they meant the protein coding sequences because there's actually 98% of our genome they call the junk DNA or the dark matter of the genome that is transcribed and it's actually very relevant to our health. And that no one really was talking about until this awakening occurred. And now we're in the post genomic era. And so what I mean by that is if an earthworm and a human has the same amount of protein coding genes, why are we so much more complex? Well, it has a lot to do with the dark matter of the genome. And a lot of it is about RNAs. And so the complexity of our form is largely dependent on things that aren't in the DNA. And so the old model was, OK, you find the protein coding genes and that's like the blueprint to building like a car. There's one gene per protein. You piece it together and you figure out how we tick. You know, and that was completely decimated after that, you know, a pocket shift, which I, you know, really think is in a way the defining moment when the new biology started to take hold, you know, which is really around 2000, because that's when the microbiome was basically discovered. You see that the number of studies at PubMed were maybe 10 studies a year around 2000. Now there's about 10 to 15 thousand a year. And so you can only imagine the tremendous implications that has had a loan on the way we think about our bodies. So getting into the new biology, obviously, the name of your book is regenerate. And you claim, and I believe rightfully so, that our body has a natural ability to regenerate.  It's a great question. Well, it's almost like a flame, the body, in the sense of what this Nobel Prize winning biologist called dissipative structures is that on a molecular level, you look at biological systems and there's a constant coming into and out of being. I mean, really, when you scale down, the sheer level of activity, the transformations occurring in even just a single cell are beyond our ability to ever comprehend. It's almost like cells are supercomputers, infinitely complex.   It's constant energy and information to keep it going. And so regeneration is actually our default state on the most basic level. But if we want to get it, you know, sort of more in layman's terms, if you think of stem cells, they're distributed throughout the various tissues of our body, they inhabit these little niches. And when there's injury to a tissue, they're recruited, they divide and they help to heal that tissue. And that happens in all the conditions of, you know, the modern era. I mean, when we're thinking about the epidemic chronic conditions, if you look at the number one killer, although cancer is coming close to eclipse that now, heart disease, you have that process occurring constantly when there's damage to the blood vessels. So you get these endogenous progenitor cells that replicate and produce new endothelial tissue. You have cardiac stem cells that are constantly recruited when there's injury. And that is the process that's occurring in the brain and the liver and the skin. So we are just this just amazing, you know, constant regenerative process, really. So years ago, and I wrote about this in the longevity paradox, I was asked by a South Korean firm to become their spokesperson for stem cells in the United States and, you know, harvesting stem cells from fat and culturing them and growing them and reinjecting them. And I said, so how does the stem cell know where to go? Once we put it back in, they said, oh, that's easy. They know to go where the problem is. And so I go, well, wait a minute, we have stem cells in our body. Can't we just direct the stem cells to go where they're supposed to go? And that was actually one of the turning points in my career because I obviously didn't join them because I realized, like you say, we got plenty of stem cells. We just have to activate them, right? Absolutely. So that takes us to the next question. So how do we go about activating them? I know we could spend the next day just talking about that. Give us some examples about environmental changes that we can do or let's even back up with that. How is the environment and the foods that we've been told to eat impacting our ability to not activate stem cells? Great question. When it comes to at least my evaluation of the literature on the Western pattern diet, it's very interesting because they almost use it as a lethal disease vector.  And it induces all the chronic diseases we know afflict humans. So there's no real mystery here of the cause and effect relationship. But so basically we know what the primary drivers of chronic disease are. And that that is toxic and exposure. When I say toxic and I'm referring to really just ultimately petrochemically derived substances, which are now in our environment, you know, foods, you know, patented drugs, unfortunately, are also often petrochemical in origin. Then you have, of course, this Western pattern diet, which is also like a kind of software for the hardware of our body. And that's the difference when we start understanding food as information is that if we're sending signals that are not compatible with, you know, this evolutionary template that goes back millions of years, it's developed over time, then, of course, we're going to see illness. We're going to see aberrations, inflammation. We're going to see all types of patterns that are actually a very natural response to those messages. So when you change to a diet, it might be removing certain lectin rich fruits. We could take the nightshades, we could take modern wheat. And then suddenly it says if the health is completely renewed and regeneration is able to take the upper hand again. So it's this dynamic between removing the things that are causing harm, which are usually dietary and or environmental toxic and exposures, including non-native EMF. Now it's a whole nother layer. And then, of course, adding in the information from foods that we've been consuming since really the beginning of time, like that could fruits, you know, forageable foods, root vegetables, vegetables, you know, and beefy vegetables. You know, it's really an affirmation of, I think, the value of the ancestral slash paleo diet. So one of the reasons I got interested in your work years ago is that you correctly, in my humble opinion, identified plant lectins as a real mischief maker. And I congratulate you on, you know, bringing that to the world's attention. And hopefully I've kicked it up another level. And so at least people are actually paying attention to this. But you write and regenerate about the mischief maker, one of your and my favorite lectins, wheat germaglutinin, which I think is fascinating because it's a very tiny protein. And it's a protein that doesn't need to have actually leaky gut to get into our circulation, which makes it, I think, rather unique among lectins, because I think you and I both agree that lectins are pretty good at making leaky gut. But this particular lectin is a stealth lectin. So can you give our listeners a little word about wheat germaglutinin? Where is it and what does it do? Sure, thank you. Yes, I mean, it's an important topic because it's sort of flown beneath the radar. I fixate a lot of attention on the harms of wheat consumption. But when you look at those who, for example, advocate eating sprouted wheat, yes, sprouting grains does tremendous things to reduce gluten and increase the nutritional value and some activity, et cetera. But the lectin content may be maintained or even increased in certain cases. So lectins are exceptionally well designed to irritate the tissues of mammals and insects, actually. And I love to explain this to people. It's fascinating. But if you think about it, why do so many people take glucosamine to reduce the symptoms of osteoarthritis? And it's because it's not because they have a lack of these C-bugs exoskeletons, the chitin. It's because chitin or the exoskeleton of these C-bugs and insects, as well, have a lot of enocidal glucosamine in that armor. And what happens is that lectins are specifically able to target and attach to enocidal glucosamine. So since our joints, for example, are comprised of that and other tissues, these lectins target and cause inflammation. So it's interesting that actually a lot of people enter zegial bread and sprouting wheat. But ultimately, it may not remove the issue, even though there may be almost no gluten present. So I think that you've hit on a really important topic. And it's interesting because actually some gluten-free foods, like potato, as well as rice, which are commonly used, actually have chitin-binding lectins like WGA or wheat, German glutenin. So there's actually, it's almost an argument to go back to even the more ancestral diet, where you might not eat grains, even if they are free of gluten and start going to the dicots, which are quinoa, amaranth, and buckwheat, because these are in the sort of forageable category of foods. They look like grains, the pseudo grains they call it, but they're not actually grains. They're completely different super family of plants. Yeah, unfortunately, back in the good old days, I was really hoping that quinoa and buckwheat would be lectin-free, but in fact, neither of them are. And interestingly enough, the Incas actually always fermented their quinoa, so they used bacterial action to, if you will, eat the lectins, which made it safe. And it's not on the packaged directions of quinoa, by the way, to ferment your quinoa. So the interesting thing about lectins gets even more interesting. There's a recent paper that shows that lectins and wheat actually additionally seek out a sugar molecule called New 5 AC that lines the blood vessels of humans, lines the blood vessels of elephants, doesn't line the blood vessels of great apes or mice, and it turns out that that lectin will bind to our blood vessel lining and create inflammation and attack by our immune system. And that actually explains, and I wrote about this in the plant paradox, elephants do not get heart disease in the wild because they are leaf eaters, but because of habitat destruction, they frequently now have to eat grasses and grass seeds or fed hay. And elephants in zoos actually have a 50% incidence of coronary artery disease, whereas it didn't exist. And now we understand that the poor elephants getting attacked by the lectins and grasses, which he or she was never designed to eat. This is important information. I mean, Lauren Corden, as far as I'm concerned, is the first to have identified the potential cardiotoxicity of wheat. But I don't know that, obviously, he was aware of this research and then some of the research on wheat lectin being sort of at a root cause level of the process. So that's important. Yeah, I don't know when this episode is going to air, but next week I'm presenting a paper at the American Heart Association Epidemiology and Lifestyle Medicine Annual Conference that shows that in people who are gluten sensitive, you not only have to remove, like you're saying, gluten from the diet, but you have to remove many of the gluten-free foods, which are lectin containing, before you actually seal the gut and restore their health. And we've now shown this in 50 patients that we've serially examined their leaky gut measurements. And so you're absolutely right. It's not just gluten. That's the problem. And gluten is a lectin, by the way. But it's just my feeling is it's actually one of the lesser lectins that people should be worried about. All right, so we beat lectins to death. I hope we're going to beat lectins to death. All right, so you make a very interesting argument. And one that I like, that sunlight is really important at a molecular level. And help us out with that.  So yes, it was Washington University professor Gerald Pollock who invited me to the lab to see the device his postdoc had created after three years of trying to prove the hypothesis that water is basically a molecular battery that is able to take in the ambient EMF in the environment from the sun, ultimately, and create separation of charge through the production of this structured water layer, which is sometimes called the easy layer, because it's an exclusion zone. No solute is found within it. And it's a negatively charged layer of hexagonally arranged, almost crystal-like water in the form of H302. And it actually is able to pull in this ambient energy and act as basically a battery. It's producing this battery effect in all the cells, in all the biomolecules of our body, because all biomolecules in the body are coated with water. It's a hydration shell. And so this discovery helps to explain certain paradoxes such as, how is it that there's 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body pumping the blood through continually? How could the heart possibly perform that miraculous function? It doesn't. And there are a number of other reasons why that's true. So the reality is that, ultimately, light does power our body on a very basic cellular level. And that ATP is just part of the story. And there's research that surfaced in 2013 showing that chlorophyll is metabolized into something called PBE, goes into the mitochondria, and makes the Krebs cycle more efficient. There were up to something like 29-fold increases in ATP when pigs were fed this chlorophyll and then exposed to sunlight. So we now know that technically mammals are capable of plant-like property. I mean, we're photo heterotrophic. We're between the autotrophs plants. You just take energy from the sun and the heterotrophs, the animals that are supposed to just get their energy from food. And there's also evidence that melanin is able to disassociate the water molecule, liberating high energy electrons and molecular hydrogen and oxygen, which is the hypothesis of Artura Herrera, who was trying to understand blindness and found that in the retina, there isn't sufficient blood supply. But there's a lot of melanin, and there's plenty of oxygen, plenty of energy being produced. And so that got him thinking more about why do turtles, for example, hibernate without oxygen for four months in the winter submerged? How is that possible? Because of their highly melanized shells and tissues, are able to perform the function of energy creation through, again, the equivalent of mammalian photosynthesis or photolysis of the water molecule, and therefore producing oxygen and energy. So it's a very powerful alternative cellular bioenergetics that I think that the new biology is now showing is how things work. So are you proposing, like my friend Joseph Mercola, that we ought to be in a Speedo and walk on the beach for two hours every day with nothing but a Speedo on? No, I think I'd probably say that it depends on one's melanin content. That's one of the key components, because my mother's very fair skin. She's German, Irish, French, Scottish mix. And she's been staying out of the sun her whole life for good reason, because she's very sensitive. But those who have more melanin, you can take more sun in. The reality is that UVB is essential for things like vitamin D production. And so we do need that component, but we don't really think about all the other benefits. Like for photobiomodulation, like the dawn and dusk wavelengths are essential for regulating the circadian rhythm, as well as a number of other probably very indispensable functions, some known and many unknown. So yes, I'm a big advocate of getting outdoors. I'm glad you brought that up, because it's something I think most people aren't aware of. Obviously more and more people are becoming aware of probably the dangers of blue light, particularly blue light at the wrong times of day and night. But I like this idea that the spectrum of dawn and dusk is really important in establishing the circadian rhythm. Can you give us a snippet of why that color hue is so important in circadian rhythm? Well, there's a hypothesis that even human hairlessness can be explained. The mutation that occurred two million years ago as a advantage that was gained, because it enabled us to take advantage of melanization and then harvesting of certain wavelengths of light. The encephalization event happened two million years ago. That's when there was this profound speciation and we became basically these massive headed mammals. So there are many explanations from, and Dodges retroviruses to eating more high fat and high protein animal meat, but there's many ways of looking at this. And I would say that, yes, getting exposure to the full spectrum of the sun is like eating an orange versus taking a sorbic acid pills. You just can't reduce the value of that to any particular vitamin that's synthesized, for example. So let's switch topics. In your book, you really warned about taking painkillers. And it's one of my favorite warnings as well. Why not take a painkiller? How about in a leave every day? I see commercials that helps me get through the day. It helps me play with kids and grandkids and an ibuprofen ought to be in our water. What's wrong with that? Well, there's, as you know, so many reasons why if we kill pain, which is actually inflammation is part of the healing response and also a great messenger that there's something wrong at the root cause level. Like, for example, if you have some kind of splinter in your toe, you don't just throw a band-aid on it. You remove the splinter. Maybe then you put the band-aid on. So yes, in acute care situations, absolutely painkillers are life-saving and very ethical and compassionate. But when it comes to over-the-counter, especially these NSAIDs, as you know, we now know that ibuprofen probably causes as many heart attacks every year as Vioxx did. And that's because, unfortunately, they are like any other patented, petrochemical derivative. They're xenobiotic. The body doesn't really know what to do with it. And unfortunately, the unintended adverse effects are, you know, extreme.  Now, when it comes to things like Tylenol, I mean, not only is it the number one cause of acute liver failure as reported by hospitals, but it is a cognition destroyer and it's an empathy killer. It literally has been found to have almost a Botox-like effect on people and their emotional responses. And this is basically a psychiatric consequences. And so we're starting to understand that pain signals are there for a very good reason. It's best to look for the root cause. And if you can't, then there are just so many amazing natural alternatives that are now evidence-based that could be used instead. So before we get into that, give me two or three other toxic substances that people are using or exposed to every day that they really need to know about. Well, I think that in this space, I know our avatar is probably 50 to 65-year-old woman. I know a lot of people are taking statins, for example. I'm really shocked that the research that's accumulated now on Greenman Info, we have all the citations on our statin database, and there's over 300 different disease states that have been linked with statins. And so there's a black box label, thankfully now on it for memory loss and it's diabetic generating issues, but there's so much more to it. And in fact, my main concern, because the two primary modes of toxicity are they are myotoxic, they harm the muscle by depleting it, of course, of corns and Q10, but really they're directly toxic to the muscle, can even create a deadly autoimmune reaction to the muscle in the body. But they're also neurotoxic, and so when you think of the heart, the most nerve-dense muscle in the human body, why would you ever consider using this as a cardio protective, right? So I believe they're purely atrophic, like chemo, for example, they will have a mild anti-inflammatory effect, which explains why the relative risk reduction of, maybe they use 50%, right? Maybe the absolute risk reduction was one person was saved and a thousand people received the med, is that it's probably, I think, due to the mildly anti-inflammatory effect it has, but it still might promote cancer as well, so that's unfortunately the problem with that category. So that's one, and then let me think there's so many, but as of course, like both say, it's been kicked under the bus and stomped on as much as lectins for good reason, but I will say that that's still one of the primary concerns I have is the exposure is ubiquitous, it's in our rainwater, it's in almost every food measured now, and I think that we can really do a good job of making sure we're eating organic and not just going non-GMO certification, unfortunately that certification doesn't always cover agrochemicals, so non-GMO certified oats, for example, especially in North America, almost always have glyphosate in them. Yep. So we have to kind of go dig deeper and work with our local farmers and maybe start trying to grow a little ourselves, and this is I think what's gonna need to happen to change the food model around. Is there any hope to avoid glyphosate or are there any countermeasures we can take against this exposure? Yeah, I mean, for me, I think the primary thing I like to advocate is for people to consume food optimally, you know, biodynamic, permaculture-based, organic, that has the microbiome intact because part of the challenge with glyphosate is it has globally disrupted the microorganisms in the biosphere. So there's certain dysbiotic consequences of that, like clastridium, klebsula, these strains increase in the body when you consume glyphosate-contaminated food. So, you know, yes, the microbiome's a key for minute food, organic, that's the best way to go. All right. Speaking of foods you should eat, you kind of start off in the book, the chicken soup may be the best food that a human being can eat. Can you help us out with that? Well, it's part of this concept that, you know, grandma's wisdom was passed down to us not just because, you know, she happened to like the flavors of certain foods, but that they're in a way epigenetic inheritance systems. So the formulas that your parents and their parents have been putting together that's part of your own cultural lineage may have essential nutrigenomic information without which your predecessors would not have necessarily even survived optimally, at least in their condition. So I like to think of these as formulas for health and resiliency that are extremely valuable. Now, of course, chicken soup is something that is warm and it has incredible nutritional profile when you really look at taking a whole chicken, for example, and boiling it down. But for me, it's more of a metaphor for how recipes passed down from our ancestors are literally like prescriptions to our genes and our epigenome. And I think that we're starting to recover that ancient wisdom and respect and, you know, sort of it's about really taking advantage of the culinary tradition of healing that has sort of gotten lost because it was an orally transmitted tradition. I think you and I both agree that the modern chicken, which has been raised on a factory farm with 100,000 other chickens in a warehouse and fed corn and soybeans is probably not what you're talking about as a great recipe for chicken soup. No, absolutely not a good point. Pasture raised, organic, humanely treated and killed if there is such a thing. That's the ideal, you know, situation because the qualitative difference is tremendous. One thing I like to point out is if you look at an organically grown grape, you know, versus some conventionally grown one where pesticides have taken care of the pests, agrochemical inputs have helped to blow it up in size. You look at the resveratrol content, right? In the real living stress one that doesn't look as pretty and doesn't have as much in it and it has potentially orders of magnitude higher levels. And that is an informational molecule that when an animal consumes it, it's as if it induces caloric restriction. It activates all these longevity and resilience pathways. And why is that? Because actually that grape has a seed in it that it wants you to disperse for it. And it has a vested interest in your reproduction also improving so you can be fruitful in multiplying these species between plant and animal have done this for millions of years so that our reproductive systems or endocrine systems and the very governance of our own DNA has been outsourced in foods. And that's why exosomes are so exciting because we've recently discovered all foods contain these nanoparticles with microRNAs which are considered the master regulators of genome expression. And when you consume these foods, it literally changes the expression of your entire genetic profile. So you can imagine what happens is if for millions of years your ancestors a berries and suddenly they're gone for two generations, well, one result could be cancer increases. So you can't say cancer's caused from a lack of chemo and radiation but you can say it's caused from a lack of berries and vegetables and fruits. And that's because food is information and without it we can't even regulate our DNA effectively. Yeah, I think that's a really good point that you bring up in the book and you're a big fan of raw foods and I just not put words in your mouth but is it the raw food contains much more of that information than cooked food would? That's a good question. Absolutely, there is probably a generic statement that we could say is true that yes, there's more information because obviously heat and time and light and all those things create entropy but when you take a raw food in, you're not just getting dissolved oxygen and biological structured water, you're not just getting enzymes that are still active as well as the microbiome but you're getting meristematic cells which are plant stem cells. In fact, there's an entire subdiscipline of healing called gemotherapy which is not well known about but it was based on extracting the buds of plants and using their essences because the bud is the semi-immortal cell of the plant and that connects to the basic premise and regenerate which is that humans and all animals and all life actually has a cell line in it, it's a germline cell it's been replicating for an infinite amount of times going back to the last universal common ancestor cell 3.4 billion years ago and so we have a seed of immortality within our body. When people start to understand that biology affirms that it's very basic science, they start realizing well, there's incredible resilience within my body. Yes, cancer is scary and yes, everyone's afraid it's gonna kill us but even cancer is a representation of the immortalization of our cells and so it reflects, it's a shadow reflection of our regenerative potential and if we can learn that, neutrogenomically we can alter the tumor micro-environment we can start getting the information needed back to give it what it needs to say go through program cell death or learn to re-differentiate into a healthy cell there are cases where this has been shown then we start to solve the root problem of the cancer epidemic. Yeah, that's without sounding too woo or touchy feely I think the idea that the cancer operating system is the default computer program of an ancient cell that sells in inhospitable environments whether it's inflammation or whether it's hypoxia whether it's toxic chemicals they go into this default mode like the safe mode of the old Microsoft computers and there is a lot of work out of Arizona State University to this effect I like this idea it's this ancient operating system to try to immortalize the cell that makes a whole lot of sense to me. Oh, I love that because if you think about the origin of life question I believe the panspermia hypothesis is correct which is that some proto-fungal form was deposited here literally from outer space and this is actually considered relatively conventionally validated now so even when you talk about Luca being the first cell 3.4 billion years ago no one can explain how nucleic acid just popped out of the primal ocean because it probably didn't work that way that goes against every law of physics and chemistry and genetics we could think of that it would just come out of nothing but so there is something about this question that is really fascinating and I think ultimately I just want people to realize that we've been regenerating and we've been surviving some of the most horrific environmental challenges since the beginning of time and so if we can learn to access that which is happening already just provide the right conditions have the right mindset first of all believe that you can heal because obviously nothing is going to happen if you don't try and believe that you can heal then that's part of the premise that we can take control of our health destiny So in your program and in starting healing or regeneration you call it the regenerative RX program and in the time remaining give me kind of the basics of what are you trying to do with this program what are the steps? Well it's really based on radical simplification so when I worked with hundreds if not thousands of individuals when I was in my former career working with people in the natural health space I would just say stop eating wheat and dairy like cow smoke specifically and see what happens and I would say that 90% of the people who did it they felt significantly better so it's that gave me a clue as to what the ancestral template really is you exclude foods that really didn't exist before the birth of the agrarian mode of subsistence which is about 5000 BC animal husbandry popped up the same moment because grains and grass and all this is part of the equation so when you go back further you start taking in foods that have again the information that helps to reawaken the optimal blueprint in the body so really it has a lot to do with taking away things that are just really post-industrial foods I mean before 1860s everything was organic by default but we're still very grain heavy now if we go back in time and start eating those berries and fruits and vegetables and good sources of protein we can completely regenerate or upgrade the software of our bodies that has been completely corrupted and inappropriate so I love for people to go on a simple mono diet of apples and when I say mono diet it could be just skip one meal and just have an organic apple instead and I advocate for this because it simplifies that meal or that day if one wants to go a whole day and to me it's a way of experiencing not just what you might call the earthly stream of nutrition but the cosmic one and in the book I go into this which I feel that quantum biology is at the point now where there is a strong argument that you could make that we are designed to harness free energy so-called quantum vacuum energy and that there are examples of this that are obvious actually like the 30 million volt per meter electrical field strength of each mitochondrion that's as much energy as it's found in a lightning bolt that's 30 million volts per meter that's in a single mitochondrion now we have 5,000 of them per neuron if you do the math over the trillions of cells it blows your mind no one is talking about where that energy comes from in fact they just discovered that the cytosol has 15 million volts per meter and they assumed it had no charge so that is being transduced I believe from the quantum vacuum and there's examples of this that I talk about in the book of the mantis shrimp that induces water cavitation with its claw generating temperatures that are as hot as the surface of the sun this is what biological systems have been able to evolve into and I don't think that we can do that but I do think that our bodies are capable of harnessing what they call quantum vacuum energy so that's part of the I think fun part of the book talking about these sorts of things yeah it is fun and I don't want people to go out and eat a mantis shrimp to harness its energy ability so we've covered a lot of stuff today fun stuff in the book is absolutely a must get in my opinion so where do they find you where do they find more about you and green med info thank you well we have a project called the regenerate project which is just based on taking the themes in the book and expanding on them because I'm very interested in the biosphere and how to heal it and new technologies that will empower people to hopefully get beyond the fossil fuel energy system so I'm very interested in regeneration in general and that's what we'll be reporting on studies and just sort of taking the conversation forward very good very good okay now at this point we get an audience question and I'm actually going to have you chime in on this as well so Laurie West on YouTube asks does gut health play any role in glaucoma that's a good question I have my answer but I'm going to let you go first that's a good one well now that we know that there's an ocular microbiome I would assume that absolutely there is a very profound connection and the discovery of the lymphatic system the fact that there's a lymphatic connection to the brain and the rest of the body is profound because it was considered an immunologically sterile and privileged organ so I think that you know the eye is literally the brain growing towards the light it's the same tissue and it's very profound actually the connection so I do believe that there's a profound connection now the complexity involved it makes it hard to come up with a sick sick answer but you know I'd be very interested in your answer to that Dr. Gungy well I'll give you my specific answer there's now pretty good at least experimental evidence that glaucoma is actually an autoimmune disease and I happen to feel that almost all autoimmune diseases begin and end with leaky gut and the microbiome so and I think as time goes on we're going to find that a great number of our disease processes including heart disease is an autoimmune disease that I happen to think it is because of the things I've mentioned earlier we attack our own cells because there's a splinter in it from for instance wheat germaglutin so yeah so there is some now increasing evidence that glaucoma is an autoimmune problem and you can fix an autoimmune problem by fixing your microbiome and sealing your gut and lectins not to beat a dead arse are one of the best ways to make leaky gut that I've certainly found and you certainly found so keep up the keep up the good work all right well it's great having you on the program okay thanks so much appreciate it it's time for a review of the week following my lecture on water JB Dar one on YouTube wrote thanks for advice on water systems for the home I have been considering one and now I know what to look for and what to stay away from as always great info Dr. G well thanks very much JB Dar one and keep the cards and letters coming in we read them and we appreciate your feedback before you go I just wanted to remind you that you can find the 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SNAAAASSS DROOOOOUNCK! To this day, the Super Nintendo is considered to have one of, if not the best game library of any gaming console in history. I mean, anyone watching this right now could name 20 great games off the top of their heads, and you'd still be forgetting about 20 more great ones. Seriously, it's just one after another after another. But sadly, just like any other console, the SNES does have its share of awful, awful games. So for today, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the absolute worst the Super Nintendo put out there. Games like these were the reason I never wanted to be a completionist back in my collecting days, because there's simply no point in owning these games other than for the sake of owning them. I mean, what makes collecting old games such a great hobby is that these are interactive collectibles. They don't just sit on a shelf.  Bill Lambeer's Combat Basketball. I've already done a video on this game and how it's the bane of my existence. I had the misfortune of renting this game as a kid and wasting weekend because I thought the concept was cool. But instead, it's this indecipherable nonsense. You can't tell the players apart. The pass button just throws the ball in a general direction instead of locking onto a player. And the shooting is the same thing as passing. Just heave the ball in the direction you think the basket is. If this list were my own personal subjective list, this would be number one. But I'm gonna try and be objective here.  Balls 3D. For as many one-on-one fighting games as there were in the 16-bit era, there were bound to be a few bad ones. And while this one tried something different, it's just so freaking ugly. This game is just one giant eyesore. The controls and special moves are at least doable. But the game's attempt at 3D is disorienting and feels completely unnatural. To top it off, Balls 3D might have the worst soundtrack of any 16-bit game ever. Just listen to this.  The Rocketeer. This was a pretty good movie, but the game is a dumpster fire. You start with this pseudo 3D flying stage that feels impossible to control, until you realize you're better off looking at the tiny screen at the bottom to navigate your way around.   This part isn't that bad, but guess what's after this? That's right, another broken, half-baked, poorly designed flying stage. Screw this game. 10! Batman Forever.  We already have the Angry Video Game nerd for that, and in Batman Forever's case, he already did a fine job burying this game. It tries to combine Mortal Kombat fighting mechanics with a 2D action platformer, and the controls are a complete disaster. To use the grappling hook you press select and up?   Pro quarterback. Here's an example of a game where I don't even need to say anything. Just look at this. Look at this! How can graphics and a frame rate this bad get past testing? The Super Nintendo had some bad sports games. Street Hockey 95 is up there too, and of course, Bill Ambeer's Combat Basketball.  Captain Novelin. Here's a game starring a superhero who exists to teach kids about diabetes. He avoids aliens who look like junk food, like donuts, while maintaining a healthy diet to keep his blood glucose at a normal level. Okay, that's weird, but it seems noble enough, right? The problem is that this game looks and sounds bad even for an NES game, and literally all you do is jump and collect healthy food. The issue with most educational games most of the time isn't that they're educational, it's that they're just dull as dishwater, or in this case, just plain bad. 7! Street Combat. I'm not sure you can get more 90s looking than this game. I mean, dear God, look at these guys. Yeah, this is another one-on-one fighting game, and it's as generic as it gets. It's developed by Irem, who made good games like the R-Type series, but it's clear they were just hopping on the fighting game bandwagon with this one.  And I mean, jeez, what were they thinking? This game is terrible. 6! Wizard of Oz. This is just a classic case of having no idea what can and can't hurt you, what you can and can't jump on, where you're supposed to go, what's supposed to be the background and what's supposed to be the foreground, and what the hell any of this has to do with the game is supposed to be about. This is your typical half-assed licensed garbage, but it's only the third worst licensed game on the Super Nintendo, because there's also... 5! Bay Bay's Kids. Another movie licensed game.  The enemies take like two dozen hits, if you're even able to hit them with this horrendous hit detection.  But this still isn't as bad as... 4! Terminator 2, Judgment Day.  It should be simple, right? Just a beat-em-up where you annihilate bad guys as the Terminator using all sorts of different weapons and stuff.   I'm in awe of how badly they screwed this game up. 3! Space Ace. Oh, it's only going to get worse. This game is an action-platformer that's absolutely unplayable.   Race-Driven. Oh my god.  No, this isn't a Super FX chip game, but it's a perfect demonstration as to why the Super FX chip was needed for games like this. It's hard to tell if anything I'm doing on the controller is even registering in the game at all because it's so freaking slow to respond.  If Space Ace is unplayable, what does that make this? De-playable?  This is not the worst game on the Super Nintendo. That honor goes to... 1! Earthbound. Man, this game is just the worst. I can't... Alright, I'm just kidding. The real number one is... 1! Pitfighter. Okay, the arcade version and even the Genesis versions of Pitfighter aren't all that bad, but the Super Nintendo port is the dumpster fire to end all dumpster fires.  Seriously, the fighters move around like zombies being jolted by cattle prods. Pitfighter for Super Nintendo is an irredeemable mess that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, and it's the worst game on the SNES. Anyway, that's all for now. Thanks for watching and have a good rest of your day.


Maia kwa chenefya sata was delayed to become president. God took him along that period of time. Mpa kumu inileesam uto wa solamu naisha. Elasamu pela kwa fe 3 years huku teka. God took her for 10 years katwishin bingadi sa alfianya. So kuli imu emu eba ambita mo agengilamu state chaos because you are still too much of yourselves until you break down, until you become so soft, until you begin to see that there is only one of us, until you have the vocabulary of love, until you begin to condemn violence every time you open your mouth. As long as God sees this word is dangerous, chao amatua chita rigia mailekshins, huku china bha ambilaka taken, caught me. Pantubu shukufi muna lande fe na mu ebele, ifu endatua isam power mukachimu na tukami kaka, who would want you to rule when we know that when you begin to rule, we are going to be scampered in no directions. Instead, we are going to be scampered in no directions, tukami mebele ala uuse. Ula fuaio kupa, iwengana kupa, first week inga kupuma pa nifiyon sefimu. Akasuminau ni omana kashimu, niti kopen ko bambi. Echo avantu mela kwa ni muni, nicho muna mukachimu toa eka la 7 years. Kanshine kafa nombatui kalefiyon. Baibili he ture, ya ture.


Hey, hey, thank you so much for joining me on another episode of talks with Tony I Got an email here. You know, I was just talking to my videographer and we were talking about these emails it you know, it's quite a few of them and I'm reading these for the first time with you all and so To keep my work down so I don't have to hire a whole another staff to vet all of these emails You know, I want y'all to understand some of these are long some of them are short So when you hear an episode Make sure you catch up on the ones you've missed go back listen to the one before You know set an alarm in your phone to be reminded We're gonna try to release these every Wednesday and Sunday if we're able just depending on my schedule So to this email, thank you for all that you do. Hey, you're welcome Please help me with this. I was introduced to a church about four years ago by a guy. I was dating Things got so toxic and abusive me and him were separated and he left the church I continued to go to the church.  I admired him from afar because I knew he was something I couldn't really have Fast-forward about four months ago.  I developed so he came to me Meeting up with him was very Racy the very first time He stayed over for hours and we ended up kissing. I Didn't think much of it fat. You didn't think much of it. Okay, it's good about them Fast-forward again We still touch base on a business level then one day. He told me how angry he was with his wife She had been out all night and put him in a position to be embarrassed and questioned by the church He asked could he stop by after church because he didn't want to go home and I said sure Well, I ended up having sex with him Two weeks later. He showed up at my door drunk and we had sex again It was even more intense this time now. I'm stuck. I still go to church But it's clear there is a thick tension between me and him He keeps trying to make me feel like it was my goal to sleep with him And the business stuff is up in the air all the while his wife knows He has a history of cheating but thinks he's been delivered Am I foolish because I also feel like if they were ever separated and he wanted me I wouldn't deny him help Please Yeah, I'm gonna have to do okay, okay, I'm answering this But I'm I see I'm gonna have to do another video to on Instagram If any pastors if you a pastor and you watch my podcast you watch my YouTube Email me today and bring me into your church to do a relationship seminar Every cent every member need to be there This absolutely this absolutely This absolutely is just it's so painful. It's so painful You know for this to be happening in the church with a minister in training who is married Now I want everybody who listen to this who fell out with the church You're not Christian you're against God this have nothing to do with with Jesus Christ They have nothing to do with Christianity this has to do with human nature and our sinful nature Now Sis this where you played yourself When you see a man this to every woman and me a videographer was talking about this, you know With these lessons this for everybody not just the person who wrote in this for every woman when you see a man That you are attracted to and you know, he's married stay away Stay away from intimate relations if you're gonna do stuff It needs to be a business Transaction like if you paying him to wash your car because he has a mobile detail company And he wash your car is sitting in the driveway. He wash it you cash app him or whatever app him and He gone by this business. That's different I'm married So what you describe Now ain't tall because I'm just five ten I might not be educated either But very smart. I don't see that but maybe wise family oriented Handsome I don't know if I'm handsome by knowing ugly. So what you describe? It could be women Who feel that way about me? I'm a Christian just like he is. I'm a minister just like he is I just minister outside of the four walls I'm married just like he is So here's the thing Just what I do When me and you do coaching it's by phone Women say can we do Skype? Can we do it in person?  I don't do in person coaching You got to pay me a whole lot of money to do in person coaching and and and I know if you paying that you you serious by some coaching and But I don't do in person coaching because I know I got too much sexual energy Not me coming on to you, but I just know my swag turned up And so and I know this from living my life over over the years just Dripping swag ooh, I can't sit in person with you for an hour and You not feel a certain kind of way and so especially in an intimate setting and we talking deep and and making love to the mind That's what communication is. So I set those boundaries I'm not doing Skype because I don't want to look at you in the eyes for an hour So no Skype no in person. I coach by the phone. Yes as one of the top coaches life coaches in the world I coach by phone, you know why to create boundaries for safety For reasons just like this You lust after the man in church So you in church sinning Lusting after the man and Then you do business with them. How did these you say so fast forward about four months ago We decided to do some business matters together How did that come about Y'all just y'all one just walking past each other. Oh Oh, excuse me bump into you. Let's do some business together So no one of y'all had to get in position you got in position or he got in position so What you felt for him? All this that you described very smart tall handsome educated family oriented you name it Sister when you feel like that about a man.  He felt all of that So now he knew you was open a man. No when a woman attracted to him. We know it. We could tell it and some men What you describe he know Most women attracted to him nine out of ten women attracted him Because a man who attracted to one woman is a lot of times attracted to other women Same go for women. If you're attracted to one man, you try to the other man So he already knew so you or him got positioned y'all start do some business together. You came dry Because of a vision impairment So he comes to you where y'all at what you mean come to you Uber, where do you live? Where do you live, sister? You have uber So you were supposed to get on uber and Get driven to Starbucks So y'all could sit and talk but oh no, y'all don't want to do that Because y'all to look like y'all in sin if one of the church members see you So it sound like he came to your house Yeah, he came to your house because he came back later when he started knocking you down So you let the man come over to your house. You don't even know him. It was very racy Y'all stop talking about business plan and y'all talking about open-legged plans and y'all kiss You say you didn't think much of it.   You know what you was doing You need deliverance You need deliverance.    She could have played on that in me of a man What's in a man? She could have played on that and she could have took me down. She could have took me down There's some women It's women out there You know like yourself that will do that that will know the nature of a man and still you take part in being a part of the lust in a man It ain't just he need to hold himself accountable You got to hold yourself accountable too because as a woman why you letting the married man come to your house Come on now You're on for that y'all supposed to have two three of y'all in the gathering if he gonna come over it need to Be a group gathering a life group y'all need to have three four members in there So it's not just you and him so then that right there happened He made up some his wife was I all night his wife won't know I His wife one out.  He came on over and he knocked you down goal accomplished.  So now this minister in training he playing with God all the way Let's say as a human wife going through. Yeah, they going through.  You need some deliverance He need deliverance to you, but he ain't right in me. So I'm talking to you.   Come on. I system Come on now. I got to talk to you like I talked to my little sister. She's two years younger than me Got to get to your blood raw. Hey, you say am I foolish? I don't I don't know if I'm gonna call you foolish. I don't know if I'm gonna call you foolish Do you have a Jezebel spirit? Do you have a Delilah spirit? Samson in Delilah. Do you have a Delilah spirit? Do you have a Jezebel spirit?  Are you evil?  You a single woman With no kids if you get married To a man Would you expect your sister in the sisterhood who go to your church with you? To have enough self-respect to not allow your husband who has cheated on you in the past And you know have a history with cheating Would you hope that she would have enough self-respect to not allow your husband to come into her house? Listen to me sister this deeper than what you think it is This so deep because you don't sow seeds that you're gonna have to reap the harvest So when you get married Nine out of ten times get what's gonna happen this very thing This very thing you gonna wake up to find out that your husband cheating on you With another woman who operating from the same spirit that you operating from right now You're gonna get a husband. That's a tall glass of water tall glass of chocolate milk And he gonna be out here meat slanging on you With women who got the very spirit that you operate under See the thing about it is in the church. We get so caught up talking about don't judge me don't judge me be easy On me be soft on me. No Accountability is painful Accountability is painful.  It's every woman for themselves Men we got more respect than that for one another And it might be because we know life on the line. We know a man to kill you So I don't know why y'all women do this to each other, but it's wrong. It's wrong and it's nasty And you need to fix it sister This is what I'm telling you if you got a question for me Please send it in now be ready for this real truth that I'm gonna give you because y'all know I ain't gonna pull no punches on you now But please send it in to me. Thank you so much God bless you. Send it in to inbox at Tony gaskin calm. We'll talk soon


Huge brawl in the Venezuelan baseball league part in the crappy footage, but this is what we got I don't know what happened. It's 13 to 1. It's a blowout. He throws behind He goes to hit the catcher at the bat hits the catcher at the bat catcher throws his glove at his head. Okay Let's go back a lot happened.   You can see it bounce to the ground now He's like, alright, maybe I'll hit you lefty. No, you already failed batter.  They are killing it and then it eventually is gonna dive into two camps We call it the infield and the foul territory camp and the foul territory has the guy going come on What what I do what I do and they're like, well, dude, you took your bat and you tried to hit our player I think that's the main issue


Hi, we are from Biotrans A-Star Singapore. Our research interests are engineering microorganisms to produce flavor and fragrance compounds. Here we present you a short video abstract of our recent work on plug-and-play modular system to produce apocardinoids. Some examples of apocardinoids are alpha-beta-ionone, which they have very sweet and pleasant smell, and the retinoids, which is the vitamin A. The challenge to achieve high titers of apocardinoids in a heterologous host is that, firstly, the synthetic pathway from glucose to apocardinoids is very long, and secondly, some of the enzymes are membrane-bound and extremely inefficient. In our work, we overcome the challenge by using modular metabolic engineering approaches. Since all the apocardinoids were derived from the same precursor, lycopene, we first obtained the parental strain, which is able to accumulate high concentrations of lycopene. Based on the parental strain, we further overexpressed the lycopene cyclase and carotenoids cleavage dioxinase to produce alpha-beta-ionone or retinoids. The modular approach also allowed us to identify that these two enzymes are the main bottlenecks. In order to improve their activity, we further used the enzyme engineering methods such as n-terminal modifications and enzyme screening, and this method effectively improved the apocardinoids tighter by more than 54. We further tested the strain in biorectrase. For both alpha-ionobeta-ionones, we have produced about 3.5 gram plethora, which is about 100 times more hair than perversely reported. More importantly, our system is a plug-and-play modular system, so we can literally adapt our system to produce other apocardinoids, such as saffron proteins. In sum, we have successfully underneared a series of strains that overproduce alpha-ionobeta-ionones and retinoids, and our study laid foundation to sustainability produce other important flavor compounds. Finally, our study proved that it is very powerful to combine modular undernearing approach and enzyme undernearing approach, and this strategy might have a broader application.


I pray the name of the Lord. I am delighted and grateful for this opportunity to fellowship with you, dear brothers and sisters. Thank you, pastor, thank you, my colleague pastors, for this opportunity to minister in this great church. And we praise God for this opportunity. I didn't come from very far away, just around here and I am grateful for this opportunity. I invite us to share the word of God from the book of Acts chapter 8 and we are reading from verse 26 to 40. Acts chapter 26 verse 26 to 40. The Bible says now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying arise and go towards the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is desert. So he arose and went. And behold a man of Ethiopia a eunuch of great authority the queen of Ethiopia who had church of her treasury and had come to Jerusalem to worship was returning and sitting in his chariot. He was reading Isaiah the prophet. Then the spirit said to Philip go near and overtake this chariot. So Philip ran to him and had him reading the prophet Isaiah and said do you understand what you are reading? And he said how can I unless someone guides me and he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. The place in the scripture which he read was this. He was laid as a ship to the slaughter and as a lamp before its shearer is silent so he opened not his mouth in his humiliation his justice was taken away and who will declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth. So the eunuch answered Philip and said I ask you of whom does the prophet say this of himself or of some other man then Philip opened his mouth and began beginning at this scripture preached Jesus to him now as they went down the road they came to some water and the eunuch said see here is water what hindas me from being baptized then Philip said if you believe with all your heart you may and he answered and said I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God shall we pray loving father in the name of Jesus we thank you for this privilege to be in your house of prayer house of prayer for all nations those of us who are here physically and the many of your children who are also in worship together with us virtually we thank you for the portion of the scripture that is before us for consideration we pray that as we delve into this passage that the Holy Spirit who guided its writing who ensured that his record is put down for the many of us who will come to live later that he will bring us to its understanding speak to us dear Lord in Jesus' name we pray amen the title of our salmon from Jerusalem to Gaza from Jerusalem to Gaza I was sharing with my elder sitting next to me he said that is an interesting topic especially going by the circumstances of the moment because of what is happening in the Middle East yes it is a very interesting topic and I welcome us to consider it together before we come into that word allow me to share with your story from Steve Jay calls dissertation on how to evangelize the world he offers that he tells a story of one man by the name William Curry a poor English shoemaker born in 1761 after his conversion at age 18 he began preaching in some small Baptist chapel supporting himself by his trade while William Curry read Captain Cook's voyage sparkled his interest into foreign missions and he continued to study the Bible and as he continued to study the Bible he became convinced that the central responsibility of the church should be foreign missions that this probably does not sound very radical to you today but in Curry's days it was revolutionary the prevailing hyper Calvinist view of his time was that the Great Commission had been given only to the apostles it had been fulfilled in previous years the heathen had rejected the gospel and so they will have to wait their fate on judgment day but Curry who was a Calvinist dare to ask whether Jesus command to make disciples of all nations was not obligatory on all Christians and all minister accused him of being miserably enthusiastic when he shared this idea at ministers gathering one pastor retorted young man sit down when God pleases to convert the heathen he will do it without your aid and mind when Curry actually proposed going himself to India as a missionary his father exclaimed is William mad but William Curry went to India where he labored for 40 years he supervised and edited translation of the Bible into at least 36 languages he published grammar and dictionaries labored to abolish window burning and anti sites and studied botany to promote agricultural improvement in a someone that he preached before he left England, Curry uttered his new found words expect great things from God attempt great things for God he is often called the father of modern mission at the passage that we consider today is bordering on mission I have given it the title from Jerusalem to Gaza because on that road from Jerusalem to Gaza God was on mission rescue for one man the Ethiopian I think now you are beginning to put the dots together God on mission on the road between Jerusalem and Gaza and probably you will have liked this someone to be entitled God, Philip, Shippen God and the Ethiopian Eunuch but suffice it that we call it today from Jerusalem to Gaza the Bible opens this portion of the scripture that is for our consideration today by saying now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying arise and go towards south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza this is desert there are many ways that God communicates to us he does it personally through himself in the person of the father and sometimes through the person of God the son and through the person of the God head the Holy Spirit and he sometimes uses angels who are celestial beings which right to the book of Hebrews will say they are ministering spirits for those who are to inherit eternal life and sometimes he uses human beings and sense them he uses the word that is printed the printed pages and he does communicate and reach out to us through dreams and visions and even through the book of nature but in our case of our consideration this morning the Bible says that it was through an angel there are several portions in the scripture where God used angels to reach out to humanity to communicate to humanity the Bible says one day in the book of Genesis chapter 18 while Abraham was seated outside his tent he saw three men passing and he reached out to them and asked them my Lord if you don't mind allow me to have you come into my tent that I may bring water and that you may wash your feet and I lay a table before you then the story changes into that these men were not just men you begin to hear and the Lord spoke to Abraham they were three men and one of them was the Lord as you continue down in the story and get to chapter 19 one of the three men remains talking with Abraham and the two proceed on to come to Sodom and Gomera and when they reach Sodom and Gomera they cease to be men and they become angels so they were angels we find accounts like these ones in the Bible about angels visiting with men in the book of Judges chapter 6 verse 12 we find an angel visiting one man by the name Gideon and asking him to be instrumental in the salvation of the children of Israel from the oppression of the Midianites in the book of Matthew chapter 1 and verse 20 an angel came to Joseph when he was about to dump Mary on understanding that Mary was expectant when he was planning to marry her but an angel came to him and told him that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit Matthew chapter 1 and verse 20 you can go on and on and on you will see how angels operate in human lives one day Peter and some of the disciples are arrested and they are put behind bars in the book of Acts chapter 5 and verse 19 an angel of the Lord came into that prison and freed them the leaders of the church the priests the scribes the Pharisees who had put them in prison on coming to look for them in the prison they couldn't find him couldn't find them because they had been freed by angels now the Bible in this portion tells us that an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying arise and go in short angels are celestial beings that communicate a use of God to bring information to humanity it was therefore heaven itself reaching out to Philip and asking Philip to go on a mission assignment and this is what the angel said arise and go towards the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza this is desert really my reason for choosing this topic from Jerusalem to Gaza was because I am aware that whereas you and me who love to read the Bible and who esteem the Bible very highly do it so and believe in the Bible is not everybody in the world who believes in the Bible and who takes the Bible as being an authentic book sometimes those who do not believe in the Bible consider it to be fictitious they consume consider it to be symbol of febos stories that are told but allow me to observe that the Bible going by what we find in this vast vast vast vast vast of our portion of consideration that the angels spoke to Philip saying to him go towards south along the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza allow me to observe that the Bible is a book that talks about real places and the real people if there was any doubt about the authenticity of the Bible and whether the Bible is not just fiction please rest assured that the Bible is a true book that talks about true people and also talks about true places as we speak right now we know that there is a place called Jerusalem and there is a place called Gaza the Bible should be taken as a true book that it is not fictitious it is not about stories to make people happy but it is a real book talking about real things that really happened and real people involved and real places involved so he tells Philip go towards south along the road that goes from Jerusalem to Gaza you will be happy to know that Philip was in Samaria Chapter 8 begins by saying that Philip was in Samaria following the persecution that had come to the church the believers the disciples scattered and went various places in one of those places they went was Samaria for Jesus had told the disciples just before he left that you will receive the promise of the father so the father comes upon you you will become my witnesses and please begin in Jerusalem then you proceed on to Judea then you go to Samaria and then you go to the rest of the world the gospel had done so far so well in Jerusalem and in Judea and went further now to Samaria and in Samaria success was attending Philip's mission the bible says allow me to read together with us chapter 8 and beginning from verse 14 the bible says now when the apostles who were in Jerusalem had that Samaria had received the word they said to Peter and John to go to them who when they had come down prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit John and Peter Peter and John ascended to Samaria following a successful mission of Philip in this particular place verse 4 in particular to give us the perspective says therefore those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them and the multitude with one accord he did the things spoken by Philip hearing and seeing the miracles which he did for unclean spirits crying with a loud voice came out of many who were possessed and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed there was great joy in the city Philip was so successful that many people he did the word preached by him and there were miracles that attended his ministry in Samaria so much that even those who practiced sorcery became believers verse 9 says but there was a certain man called Simon who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria charming that he was someone great to whom they gave it the least to the greatest saying this man is great power of God and they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorcery but when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ both men and women were baptized Simon himself also believed and when he was baptized he continued with Philip and was amazed seeing the miracles and signs which were done by Philip so Philip whom God is telling arise and go is a successful evangelist his mission in Samaria is flourishing and suddenly God interrupts his successful mission in Samaria and ask him to leave and go for an assignment on the road towards it arise and go towards south and get to the road that moves from get to the road that moves from Jerusalem to Gaza the Lord will have us know that whereas Philip would have wanted to settle in Samaria because of the success that his mission assignment was receiving God will have him know that it is not settling time yet as long as there is still one soul that is still outside the fall of safety of God it is time to proceed on on mission and so he says this mission is well completed now in Samaria it is time to move a success of mission is simply an introduction to mission in another place we must keep on moving God is telling Philip that keep on moving keep on moving on mission mission must keep on going on and on and on as long as there are people who have not been saved yet we have to keep on moving on mission going on mission rescue people from the bondage bringing them to the safety that is found in Jesus Christ so Philip's mission is interrupted and he has to leave and go to meet this person to go to this assignment that he does not know anything about the fact that we were successful yesterday in mission in another place in a particular place is simply reason enough to have us move to the next mission assignment to move and so Philip moved and the Bible says in the next verse that follows so heroes and went and behold a man of Ethiopia Unak of great authority under kindness the queen of Ethiopia and who was in church of all heart treasury the description here is not for nothing God is calling upon Philip to go and as Philip arrives on this road shortly as he gets on this road that is from Jerusalem to Gaza he meets a man he notices there is a man and he realizes that this man is but an Ethiopian the description is telling us that he was a Unak this description is to give what you will consider to be impediments if Philip was honest with what the Jews what the Israelites had been perpetuating for a long time he will not want to be engaged in this assignment why? because whereas God had picked on Israel to be the people he will use to reach the world they had struggled with this request and desire of God upon them they had struggled a lot with it when Jesus himself is sending out his disciples in the book of Matthew chapter 10 probably Philip knowing that reality Jesus had said go to the lost sheep of Israel make sure that you don't go to the Samaritan read it with me the book of Matthew chapter Matthew chapter 10 and verse number 5 this 12 Jesus sent out and commanded them saying do not go into the way of the generals and do not enter the city of Samaria but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel this was the initial time Jesus sent out the disciples and it could be that it was informed by their understanding which still had struggles with reaching out to people who were non-Jews and Jesus therefore touched them on this path just start with the Israelites first all of us know that the Jews struggled a lot to reach out one day Jesus is visited with a woman of Tyre and Sidon who had her daughter suffering from demonic obsession and she requested that Jesus would come to assistance and Jesus saying something that was consistent with the understanding of the Jews at that time he says it is not proper that I should give food for the children meaning that his coming was not for the people who are non-Jews in fact he says I was sent to the lost sheep of Israel meaning that this lady did not deserve to receive attention from Jesus Christ but the woman said but even the puppies helped themselves from the cramps that fall from Master's table probably Philip with this kind of mindset in him he would have been reluctant to move in and minister to the Ethiopian Unak but Philip has since overcome this problem and he knows that the gospel dispensation the requirement to reach out to people the need to bring people to the fold of God of safety is to be taken to everybody in the world no wonder he had already gone to Samaria and he now God having seen him having been in Samaria and succeeded successfully he can confidently bring Philip to this assignment sometimes brothers and sisters as human beings we have our own limitations of putting ourselves into groups and practicing partisan sim and practicing exclusivity we are not the first ones to do this it happened with the Jews but God will want to let us know in this story that we consider today that he has no he does not entertain exclusivity as far as matters mission is concerned mission is to go to everyone and so he encourages Philip to get to minister to this Ethiopian Unak Jesus himself in the book of acts while giving his disciples marching orders and the great commission he tells them when you receive the promise of the father you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem in Judea Samaria and to the rest of the world look who is the author of the book of acts in this portion he begins to let us know that now what Jesus had said in acts chapter 1 verse 8 is coming fulfillment no wonder Philip is now moving from Samaria to the rest of the world I hear God speaking to all of us and saying that it is the gospel is to be preached to everyone and no one is to be excluded no one is to be left out no one is to be discriminated against it should reach everyone as long as there is one who hasn't believed we have to keep on moving and reaching out to those who are still outside the safety of the fold of God Philip moves and he gets an unak Ethiopia wa despicable people according to the Jews alia and you can read that from the book of deutronomy and this particular Ethiopia would even be more despicable in the book of deutronomy chapter 7 and verse 6 you will say somebody who was even a unak should not be discriminated closer to the sanctuary they should be kept out but this is the person Philip is being sent to simply God means that everybody is to be brought closer in the book of Isaiah chapter 56 Isaiah chapter 56 verse 3 Philip is working in the interest of that verse of that portion of the scripture that tells of how the gospel is to be moved to the rest of the world Isaiah 56 Isaiah 56 and beginning from verse number 1 it says keep justice and do righteousness for my salvation is about to come and my righteousness be revealed blessed is the man who does this and the son of man who lays hold on it who keeps from calling the Sabbath and keeps his hand from doing an evil do not let the son of a foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord speak saying the Lord has utterly separated me from his people nor let the Unak say here I am a dry tree for that says the Lord no these statements mean everything let not the Unak say that I am a dry tree they are all invited to the the family of God thus says the Lord to the Unak who keeps my Sabbath and who chooses what pleases me and holds fast my covenant even to them I will give my house I will give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off Philip being status of the word of God as we will see in the next verse must have understood this and was comfortable to reach out to the Ethiopian Unak even when he realized that he was an Ethiopian and a Unak as he will describe he was comfortable to go being moved therefore as he reaches the Ethiopian Unak the Bible says the spirit in verse 19 say Philip go near and overtake this chariot so Philip ran to him and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said do you understand what you are reading the spirit now it's not the angel anymore in verse 26 it says the spirit say to Philip move closer to this person and Philip did not just move closer the Bible says he ran to the man and as he got to the chariot he heard the man reading aloud probably he was reading in the hearing of the people who are traveling together with him and he asked the man do you understand what you are reading and the man says how can I unless someone gets me the Bible in this portion of the scripture will let us know that it is not enough we read the word of God it is necessary that we understand the word of God and so Philip asked him are you understanding probably you may not appreciate the need to understand but if we do not understand the word will not be helpful and it is in this word this word that is the agent of God for salvation the word of God his agent for salvation so it is by hearing the word and reading of the word of God that faith is developed but to develop that faith one requires to understand Jesus in the book of Matthew chapter 13 and verse 19 did say this one day when he was giving a parable about a saw a saw went to saw and some seed fell along the road and they were picked by the birds of the air others fell among thorns they sprouted and they were chocked by the thorns they were not fruitful others fell along at rock and they sprouted but they didn't have a place to take the roots so they withered it's only one type of seed that fell in good ground then in the explanation verse 9 verse 19 of chapter 13 he says the one that fell along the road and that was picked by the birds of the air represents those people who hear the word of God but don't get to understand it it is significant that we understand the word of God because the word of God is the God's agent for our salvation and when it is not understood then we lose out we don't develop faith in the book of Mati chapter 25 raining or giving embassy to the need to understand Mati chapter 25 and verse 29 you can read together with me Mati chapter 25 Jesus Mati chapter 25 and verse 29 Jesus is telling a parable and in this parable he makes an expression that learns understanding and helps us to appreciate the need to understand verse 29 says for everyone who has more will be given and he will have abundant but from him who does not have even what he has will be taken away Jesus was giving a parable of course of talents and he says the one who had one talent but did not put it to use lost it and it was given to the one who had much Jesus saying that when we have but it is not appreciated when we give the word and we don't understand we don't put more effort to understand then it is even taken away from us as he will say that the seed was taken away by the bad representing the people who hear the word and do not understand it or probably to be put in a better way the parable in the book of acts chapter 17 and verse 11 verse 11 to 12 the apostle Luke writing about the church that was was in Berea I say is this people were keen to follow the word of God they did not just hear but they took time to be able to follow with it to understand whether the things that they had were actually the real one friends it is significant that we understand the word of God I am delighted and happy to see many of you coming to the house of God to be blessed by the word of God and the word of God will let us know that it is important that this word that we hear we get to understand it because it is in the understanding that it will be helpful to us Jesus in Matu chapter in Matu in Matu Jesus in Matu chapter 15 and verse 10 will say the same thing the need to understand in the book of Luke chapter 25 and verse 44 it says do you understand it is important to understand so Philip asks the man understand because it is important that it is the word is understood the man says how can I he is a humble man he is admitting that he can understand without help and he even goes ahead to invite Philip to come into his chariot to explain to him and Philip joyfully comes into the chariot and the bible says verse 35 that opening his mouth and beginning at the scripture preached Jesus to him Philip listen to me children of God the bible says opening his mouth Philip starting from this scripture giving us an impression that Philip went through several portions of the scripture to preach Jesus to the Ethiopian Unak a similar expression will be seen also Jesus using this style of making people to understand the word of God come with me in the book of Luke chapter 24 quickly the book of Luke chapter 24 and verse number 44 Jesus had just resurrected and he was gathered in the upper room with the disciples who had been struggling to understand the word of God and Jesus touched them out to help them to understand the word of God then he said to them these are the words which I spoke unto you while I was still with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms in other words Jesus let us know that to help the disciples to understand the things about him he had to take them through the word of God as it was written in the law of moses in the prophets and in the Psalms to bring them to understanding and so Philip is not the only one who will take this route of getting a systematic study that will run from the law from the old testament pender took to the prophets to the Psalms and to the prophets Jesus also did the same we appreciate also come with me to the book of acts we see Paul taking the same route I say this because there are many of us who have an opportunity to study the word of God with people but they do not know how to go about it in the portions of the scripture that we read here how Philip did it and how Jesus did it and how Paul will do it we lend a methodology on how to go about with me the book of acts chapter number 28 the book of acts chapter number 28 and Paul is arrested he is in Rome he is arrested in a house arrest and Paul is about there are people who come to hear him they want to understand and verse 23 says so when they had appointed him a day he came to him at his loji to whom he explained and solemnly testified of the kingdom of God persuading them and concerning Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets and from morning till evening Paul's style Jesus style and Philip's style they are the same that in matters helping people to understand the will of God and God's rescue mission we will need to prash through the Old Testament the Psalms, the prophets and now we have the New Testament to be able to bring them to understanding and I hear therefore as Philip is beginning to explain to Theophenia he says look the place where Theophenia was reading was in the book of acts chapter 53 verse 7 to 8 talking about the sheep and the lamb like a sheep is escorted to the slaughter and as a lamb is dumb before its share so it's about sheep and lamb and Philip gathers that it's about the sacrificial plan of God of salvation in the sacrificing of sheep and lamb so he says look when man fell in sin God has been on mission all this while mission to rescue humanity he came to Adam in the garden and he told look you have already sinned and your way out of this predicament is you will slaughter a lamb and so Adam begins slaughtering a lamb a symbol of the lamb of God that will come many years to die for the sins of humanity a symbol of the lamb that you will find talked about in the book of Revelation chapter 13 and verse 8 that says a lamb that was lain from the foundation so Philip starts him on this sign on this study of the lamb this lamb Adam will tell his children Cain and Abel and they begin also to make sacrifices Abel will accept this plan and offer lamb Cain will refuse the plan of salvation through sacrificing a lamb and he will come and he talk about Abraham who called to demonstrate this the plan of salvation he says he told Abraham look there is a lamb in the ticket don't kill your son so humanity is not to be killed there is a lamb that will die in place of humanity that lamb is Jesus Christ in the book of Matthew chapter 1 and verse 19 John the Baptist will say behold the lamb of God that take it away the sins of the world and Philip and say whoever believes in this lamb is saved whoever believes in this lamb is saved friends is not everybody who accept the plan of God of salvation humanity when humanity is seen in the Garden of Eden all of us fail and sin and we only have a way to salvation through believing in the lamb of God that take it away the sins of the world and the theopan yunak said probably Philip had told him that Jesus had told them go preach and whoever believes shall be baptized and so he asked Philip I can see water what hinders me from being baptized and Philip says if you believe in your heart if you believe with all your heart why should I not baptize you the theopan yunak believed people are taking position from Adam to the end of this world to believe in the lamb or not to believe in the lamb the theopan yunak believed in the lamb and he was baptized the opportunity is given to you I like Philip he did not push the theopan yunak he simply delivered the word he left theopan yunak to decide the theopan yunak says I believe who will say together with me that the plan of God of salvation that is made possible for you and me in the lamb of God you also believe in that plan and you accept Jesus as your lord and saviour let me see by a show of hand those who also believe like Philip believed in the lamb let me see you by a show of hand God has been on mission rescue from the day Adam and Eve fell in sin he is on that mission to rescue you and me and his plan is simple to believe in the lamb a lamb was slain plan of salvation was put in place even before man fell in sin because God in his omniscience already so man falling in sin and God put in place that plan to be saved through the lamb Jesus Christ and the theopan yunak believed together with me together with the theopan yunak I believe in the lamb of God I believe in Jesus Christ my lord and my saviour if this is your your conviction will you stand up as we pray together loving father in the name of Jesus we thank you because you do not leave us alone you started out on mission and you are intentional we thank you for the plan of salvation of being saved through the lamb like the theopan yunak believed in the lamb believed in Jesus Christ we also stand on our feet to declare that we believe in Jesus Christ as our lord and our saviour keep us in this conviction the rest of our life in Jesus name we pray