fat pastor. i was 353 pounds and i came to a conclusion that i ve been teaching discipline, trying to teach people to have faith and i myself was losing the battle of the weight. the battle of the bulge. a few of my friends got together and we decided, ok, we need to lose the weight and then i had a diagnosis from the doctor that i just really needed to get on blood pressure medicine so i asked a few people on the church if they d join me with it to reduce my high blood pressure medicine, try to come off of it and they said they would and before they knew it, turned into a mandate. we all got together and we changed our eating habits, changed our exercise routines, we changed just about everything about us in a 90 day mandate. how much did you lose? i lost 42 pounds in 90 days. good for you. how much did the church you
days, and what thoughts must be going through your mind. bill: what a great day for that country, too. martha: that is a great day for chile. they handled this extraordinarily well. you know, you look at how many things can go wrong in situations like this. the ability of them to get on fairly well down there together, the exercise routines, the diet that they had to ascribe to in order to have enough food for everybody down there, they lived on two table spoons of tuna fish in the early days, it s truly an extraordinary example of brotherhood and teamwork. bill: and great leadership, too. this is another live rescue. let s just hang with this a moment here. there was a name that went on the screen, i missed it at the bottom there, it was in spanish. i m not sure if it s edison pena. martha: edison pena is number 12. bill: he s the lucky man of the hour. because this is his moment. and assuming that may be his wife or family member standing by, the chilean president has been there,
the vital statistics of the miners. they were monitoring for panic attacks, for how the guys were faring during exercise routines, and that technology is usually for first responders, frankly, firefighters in very dangerous situations to keep an eye on them, or elite athletes. they were able to use it for the miners. this is a good international story. they looked for the best of the best from around the world, right? oh, yeah, a lot of south american countries and logistical companies moving stuff in and out, and, i ll tell you that there are a lot of unsung heroes who have been working down there, donated their time and donated their materials. they are calling this a humanitarian effort and not trying to drum up a lot of pr.
reporter: katie is fitted with a blood pressure collar, she ll wear it for 24 hours so researchers can get baseline measurements. in space she ll repeat the experiment. up there blood pressure is lower. these researchers believe gravity on earth may contribute to high blood pressure. high blood pressure is one of the most dangerous conditions presently. it kills about 8 million people a year, so we really want to know what is the cause for high blood pressure in so many people? reporter: and the heart muscle, it may actually shrink in weightlessness because it doesn t work as hard. does that happen all at once or is it something that happens gradually over time? reporter: what doctors and researchers learned from astronaut ultrasounds may help develop better exercise routines for people who are bedridden or wheelchair bound. all right. you ready? yep. ready and push. reporter: her ankles and legs, lower back, abdominal