From Dr. James Marcum, board-certified cardiologist
The Creator’s Code
The cardiologist became the patient.
A heart attack on a ski run changed how he practices medicine — and how he reads Scripture. Six practices later, he is stronger at sixty than he was at thirty.
The cardiologist became the patient
January 2004. Denver. A board-certified cardiologist on the last day of a ski trip — strong, successful, “in good health.” Then he stepped off the lift.
“I felt a predatory pressure inside my chest… I collapsed to my knees in the snow. How ironic. I, the successful, in-control cardiologist, was having a heart attack. I was alone, and time dilated into eternity as one primal thought pounded through my cold consciousness: I am going to die right now.”
He survived. What changed was not his cardiology — it was what he did with the hours between appointments. “From my new vantage point as a heart attack patient, I started to see the chronic-disease-treatment protocols I was used to prescribing in a different light.”
“Today, more than two decades later, I am in my sixties, and I am stronger and healthier than I have been since I was a child.”
— Dr. James Marcum, The Creator’s Code
What is inside
Six practices, one design
01
Worship
“The first and most optimal source of nourishment and healing.” Why it comes before diet or exercise.
02
Water
An estimated 75% of people are dehydrated to some degree. What that does to blood pressure and the brain.
03
Movement
Only about one adult in four reaches the minimum. Meet your endothelium, and why inactivity is an active input.
04
Rest
Sleep is only one kind of rest. The science of the Sabbath, and what fear does after a diagnosis.
05
Plant-based nutrition
What is actually in the food marketed to you — plus a five-day menu and a grocery list.
06
Sunlight
Three kinds of light, the body clock, and the honest answer on UV risk.
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Who wrote this
James L. Marcum, MD, FACC
A practicing board-certified cardiologist and the speaker/director of Heartwise Ministries. Through the syndicated television program Ultimate Prescription, the Heartwise radio broadcast, health curricula and seminars worldwide, he shares a message of total health and healing.
Heartwise Ministries is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Everything it produces — radio, television, the free resources on this site — rests on the same conviction this book does: that the Creator’s design for the body and the truth of Scripture agree.
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