Cancer Cure 100% 5 year Survival. Would You Say Yes?

(0:00) Hello, this is Dr. Daniels, and you are listening to Healing with Dr. Daniels. Today is Sunday, February 2nd, 2020. My, how time flies.

(0:19) Today’s topic is, “If therapy for your cancer could guarantee you a 100% chance of five-year survival, would you say yes?” So, today I’m going to examine such a case and discuss why you might want to pass on such a sure thing. As always, think happens.

(0:38) But first, we’re also going to talk about the update on the China virus situation. And as always, take our turpentine. Yay! All right, got our white sugar. Yay, white sugar. There’s the white sugar, and we have our turpentine. Yay! I refilled my little beaker, and I have my pipette. We’re gonna squeeze the air out and suck the turpentine up, up, up—whoops, just to the neck there, not any higher. Don’t want too much of a good thing, just the right amount. Now, for me, I take half a teaspoon. Everyone kind of finds their own little dose, and you can always start out very slow, with just a few drops. There we go. Squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt. And a glass of water at the ready. As they say in The Sound of Music, “A little bit of sugar helps the medicine go down.”

(2:11) Now, because I drink distilled water, I also take shilajit. Shilajit is a trace mineral. They just dig it right up out of the ground, put it right in here, and ship it to you. Yep, talk about pure—that’s it. Pure, unadulterated, unprocessed. This is from Russia, and Russia is so proud of their shilajit that it is actually inspected by the government to ensure it is pure and nothing but. Now that’s pride. The dose is about 200 milligrams, and that’s pretty close to it. What I do is take my water, put this in, and you can see if you stir it, it does not dissolve. So, we’re gonna let it sit. It will dissolve, and we’ll drink it later in the program. All right, I’m going to put the top back on my sugar, top back on my shilajit, and now we’re going to update on the China virus.

(3:09) Whenever you have a virus or an illness—let’s call it an illness—what you really want to know is, what are your chances of getting it, how can you keep from getting it, and if you do get it, what are the consequences?

(3:31) Okay, so most people listening to this are, well, let’s just say they’re not in China. Or maybe they’re in the United States. So, let’s talk about the United States case. Long story short, there are five cases of this virus in the United States. Zero, zero, zero—no deaths, and there is no case, no case of person-to-person spread. In other words, the people who got it, got it in China. Even though they traveled to the United States on an airplane—we all know about the air in the airplane, it’s an enclosed space, everyone breathing everyone else’s air—no one else caught it.

(4:17) So, in the United States, which, if that’s where you’re sitting, that’s all you need to worry about, right now, as we speak, this virus is not contagious. The only way to get it is you’ve got to get on a plane, go to China, and get it yourself. So, if you have not been to China in the past couple weeks, you’re pretty much safe.

(4:53) Now, what else, if anything, do we know about this virus? It is in the flu family. That means the common cold, yeah, that one. So, this virus is in the same family as the common cold. The case fatality rate in China appears at the moment to be 4.5%. However, U.S. authorities even acknowledge that this is probably a very high estimate because not everyone with the disease or with the virus has been diagnosed. But everyone who died from it has been diagnosed, and so this gives an artificially high number of case fatality—or the number of people who actually die per hundred who get the disease.

(5:52) What do I say to Americans? You have a virus with a zero death rate and not contagious in your country. You might do better to worry about the medical-industrial complex that has, by its own admission, successfully killed 227,000 people last year. So, you want to worry about something that really matters? Or we could talk about cancer, which kills more or less 500,000 people a year.

(6:15) So, today we’re going to talk about cancer. Personally, cancer is not my favorite thing to treat because the whole protocols for diagnosis and treatment are fraught with ethical issues. So, today we’re going to take a look at such an issue.

(6:46) Now, just to keep everything, you know, light, light, light, we’re going to look at cancer, but if you accept therapy, you will have a 100% survival rate. The question is, should you? Definitely a trick question. Yes, my cold from last week is improving dramatically, but not quite gone. So, the question is, should you? And of course, the answer is, well, it’s your cancer, right? So, you should decide.

(7:29) This is what your doctor receives on January 22nd, 2020. This is from Medscape Family Medicine. I love Medscape because they have just so much incredible information there. And it says, “Harm from prostate cancer therapy persists at five years.” So, if you get treated for prostate cancer therapy, at the end of five years—five years minus a day—you are likely to still have discomforts or complications from the therapy.

(8:04) It says, “Changes in urinary, bowel, and sexual function are associated with different treatment options for prostate cancer.” So, changes in urinary—meaning either you can pee or you can’t. Bowel—meaning you can poop or not, or maybe you have some diarrhea, or maybe you poop your pants, or maybe you can’t go at all. And sexual function—well, erectile dysfunction, all kinds of problems associated with different treatment options. So, these problems are associated with different treatment options, but some of these adverse effects persist—meaning they hang around—and are still bothersome five years later. An updated analysis shows.

(8:51) Now, here’s the clincher. Here’s the punch in the gut. So, just hold on to your tummies here and sit still. Five-year disease-specific survival for localized prostate cancer approaches 100%. And this survival is the same across all treatments. Well, you have to ask, what are all the treatments? What are all the treatments they’re looking at in their study?

(9:27) The findings come from the Comparative Effectiveness Analysis of Surgery and Radiation Study, and were published on January 14th in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Comparative effectiveness analysis—they’re comparing how effective different therapies are. They show that men who opted for surgery experienced more long-term adverse effects—harm, H-A-R-M, harm, damage—including incontinence—that means pissing your pants and needing diapers—and worse sexual function—that means you can’t function—than men who opted for other treatment approaches, which include external beam radiation therapy either with or without—now there’s a big word for this— androgen deprivation therapy. What’s that? That’s hormonal castration. That means castration. That means no testosterone for you, buddy. Or low-dose brachytherapy—that means insertion of radioactive beads into their body—or active surveillance. What’s active surveillance? That means no therapy. It means they look, they look, and they actively look, and they look some more, and they look some more—look this way, look that way—but all they do is look. Surveillance. Look. It’s like putting cameras everywhere in your house to watch you. Surveillance.

(11:06) In this cohort study—that means they match the people according to age and different things— contemporary management strategies for localized prostate cancer were associated with distinct— meaning different—adverse effect profiles, meaning harm profiles. They’re talking about hurting people. These estimates of the long-term bowel, bladder, and sexual function after localized prostate cancer treatment may clarify expectations and enable men to make informed choices about care, they conclude. Now, remember, these results are not on the six o’clock news, okay? Can we just be clear? This information is not being broadcast to men to help them make decisions. Instead, they are discreetly sending this to doctors.

(11:50) Men were grouped into those with favorable risk or unfavorable risk disease. Surveys were completed at baseline six months, as well as one, three, and five years after enrollment. Of 1,386 men with favorable disease, 49% had nerve-sparing surgery—that’s the best surgery available for prostate cancer. 26% were treated with active surveillance—that means just looking, looking, looking, meaning the doctor looked and did nothing else. And 19% received external beam radiation therapy without castration, and 6% had insertion of these beads.

(12:46) Patient-reported outcomes were evaluated. Listen to this carefully—there was no statistically significant difference in prostate cancer survival over five years. Yes, there was only one prostate cancer-related death in the favorable risk group and eight in the unfavorable risk group. This is very close to 100%, so they’re calling it 100%, which is fine, that’s good. But the key takeaway here is no therapy, cut your prostate out, irradiate you with a beam of X-ray radiation, insert seeds, hormonally castrate you—all the same outcome. Do nothing is as effective as any of those intervention options. Okay, just saying. So the question is, should you submit to therapy with a 100% cure rate or survival rate when not having therapy has the same 100% survival rate? What are you really doing here?

(14:21) They get into the particulars here—they use euphemisms, so I’m going to break it down in English for you. At five years, more men who underwent prostatectomy—that means the top-level surgery—reported having a moderate or big problem with sexual function than the men who underwent no intervention. So, 24% of the “do nothing” group had problems with sexual functioning, but if you had surgery, it jumped to 35%. In addition, 61% of the patients treated with surgery reported having erections that were not enough for sex, compared to only 57% who underwent “do nothing.”

(15:16) They try to make this look good—half of the men who were treated with either nerve-sparing prostatectomy (surgery), external beam radiation, or insertion of radioactive seeds, and who had erections enough for intercourse at baseline, either maintained their erections or improved at the end of five years. However, that number was not 50%, but 66% for men who did nothing. Literally, if you submit to prostate therapy—whatever it might be—your chances of having no use of your male organ at the end of five years after therapy is 16% higher. So, it’s looking pretty shaky here for the therapy group. Remember, the clinical outcome is identical in terms of being alive and survival.

(16:31) A clinically meaningful decline in urinary function was shown in men who underwent nerve-sparing prostatectomy. That means they did all this careful surgery to damage the nerves that control the bladder and sexual function less than the old standard therapy, but still, the guys are wetting their pants. But there was a limited improvement in their incontinence by year five, so they were buying fewer diapers.

(17:01) In contrast, a clinically meaningful improvement in urinary function was reported by men who underwent prostatectomy at the same point in time. So, they still had less urgency or urge incontinence, or less frequency of getting up at night, but they needed diapers. A decline in urinary function was initially observed in men treated with the insertion of the seeds, but symptoms resolved to baseline levels at three and five years after treatment. In other words, if you allow them to put in the radioactive seeds into your body, there is a decline—there is harm—and it takes three to five years for the harm to leave. And when it leaves, you’re basically just back where you started from. There’s not any improvement over what you had before therapy.

(18:33) Interestingly, people who had external beam radiation and active surveillance—which is “do nothing”—had the same level of urinary outcome. So, even though putting the seeds in might seem a little less invasive than external beam radiation, you won’t need diapers. But at five years, there’s no statistically significant difference in moderate or big problems with urinary function, frequency, or burning observed across treatment groups. But there was a big difference in urinary leakage. Leakage was higher in men who got surgery. So, if you get surgery, your chances of buying diapers are higher.

(19:36) Even if you get the external beam radiation, where they zap you, your need for diapers would be less, but your bowels are going to get hit by the radiation beam, and you’re going to have bowel problems. So, bowel function worsened during the first year for men treated with the seed insertion compared to those treated with active surveillance or prostatectomy. And bowel function worsened— that’s a euphemism for basically diarrhea and pooping your pants. At no point were there any clinically meaningful differences in bowel function between external beam radiation, surgery, or doing nothing.

(20:34) This is shocking and stunning—that you can have something labeled as a disease, and the person’s chances of being alive five years later are 100%. And with therapy, their chances of being alive are 100%. Quality of life for the individual declines with every single form of therapy and stays low for several years, depending on the symptom and the intervention. It can be anywhere from one to the full five years and even longer.

(21:24) This is amazing that such a thing can be called a cancer and qualify for therapy. With this information, we have to, as human beings, re-examine the significance of localized prostate cancer and therapy.

(21:45) Now, I just want to say, the unfavorable risk disease group was not divided into a segment that received no therapy. Because of that, it’s not possible to contrast no therapy with therapy in that group. But with the localized disease group, we can see that therapy for prostate cancer is absolutely devastating. When you think of an adult male, what defines an adult male is his ability to use the bathroom independently and not have accidents when he’s not in the bathroom. In other words, like we say for dogs, “The dog does his business outside.” Well, for human males, adult males, that would be people who do their business in the bathroom.

(22:39) Having situations where you require diapers or have diarrhea brings you down almost out of the adult category—back to where your mother was changing your diapers. The other thing that defines an adult male is the ability to have an erection suitable for sexual intercourse. That’s kind of just basic, right? That’s what the prostate, testicles, and penis are all about. The therapy groups diminish that ability. What we have going on here is a series of medical interventions that literally decrease a human male to exhibit just absolutely basic biological functions that define adulthood. I would call it devastating, actually.

(23:51) You have to take a look then—what’s going on here? What’s the cultural significance? What’s the meaning of this? Receiving a diagnosis of prostate cancer is not easy. It’s not easy. First, you had to go see a doctor. Then you had to submit to a finger up your butt. We’ll just call it sodomy. Then, not only that, you had to get stabbed in your arm and allow blood to be extracted by a perfect stranger. We call that assault. Then you had to take off your clothes, lay on your side, pull your knees up to your chest, and submit to someone taking a metal instrument, putting it up your butt, piercing your colon, piercing your prostate, and sucking out a few cells. It’s called a biopsy. This is a fair amount of submission just to get the diagnosis. And remember, a lot of people who went through all this did not get diagnosed with prostate cancer. The doctor gave them a clean bill of health.

(24:47) What we have going on here is a cultural ritual. Whether or not a person is going to submit even to the diagnostic process is nothing more than a cultural ritual of obedience, of submission, of saying, “Hey, I’m the beta male. Whoever’s doing all this stuff to me must be the alpha male.” You have to realize that even the diagnostic process is fairly humiliating and problematic. Then, to reach a point or conclusion where you are offered the opportunity to submit to external beam radiation, which is damage to your intestines and your prostate, you can submit to having radioactive seeds inserted, which damages, of course, your prostate. Or you could have the whole prostate removed surgically. All of these things have harm associated with them, and none of them are going to help you live even one minute longer—not one minute longer.

(26:33) Receiving a diagnosis of prostate cancer is a huge, huge obedience test, even reaching the point where you can receive the diagnosis. The next thing, once you receive the diagnosis, is you can go into the watchful waiting group, which I’m referring to as the “do nothing” group. But it’s not really “do nothing” because, again, it’s a ritual of submission where you interrupt your day, put all other matters aside, make an appointment, keep an appointment, show up, drive there, pay for parking, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait—maybe you get some more tests done, and then you go home, and no medical intervention happens. You submit to this at least five times in five years, possibly even more.

(27:31) As an adult male, you have to really examine this in terms of who you think you are and what you think your role is in the cultural pecking order or in society or how you think you should live your life and what you think you should and should not allow to be done to your body and what cultural rituals you want to engage in. When you want to go play a basketball game, someone might elbow you, and like, that’s okay—call it a foul, whatever, get to take a basketball shot from the foul line. Or maybe you like doing triathlons, which are strenuous and maybe painful, or doing painful gym workouts. So, I think you have to put prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment in those categories as to the type of activities that you choose to submit to.

(28:20) With prostate cancer treatment, there’s absolutely zero benefit for localized prostate cancer. They did not check for the other levels of prostate cancer in this particular study. They did not check. Knowing there’s absolutely no medical benefit—so in other words, there must be some other benefit. And you have to figure out for yourself what the other benefit is.

(28:52) Now, you ladies out there—if your guys are submitting to prostate cancer therapy and they can’t, well, let’s just say, function, and they’re asking you to change their diapers or be understanding, then you have to decide how many diapers you want to change and how understanding you want to be. But I think it’s important for people to realize what they’re doing and the consequences of their decision. Even in the study, they say the purpose of the study was to give men information so they can make better decisions. Wink, wink. In other words, maybe a few more guys would say no.

(29:37) This is more research. Another example of research that economically benefits insurance companies. I’m not saying it’s good or bad. What I’m trying to say is a lot of research like this is done all the time, but it is not publicized. It is not circulated to doctors. Doctors have to dig for it.

(30:00) Research showing that prostate cancer therapy was of no benefit in terms of survival has been around for at least 10 years. In fact, excuse me, 45 years. Yes, 45 years. So, in 1975, when I first became aware of prostate cancer, the doctor giving the lecture was very upset because he couldn’t earn a decent pay as a prostate cancer specialist because it didn’t kill anybody. It was harmless. What happened when the marketing guys got a hold of prostate cancer was it became a glamour disease. It became a man’s personal responsibility to check himself and be checked and take care of his male parts responsibly, even though that very care meant he would not be able to function as an adult male. In other words, he would not be able to control his urine, control his bowel movements, or maintain or even achieve an erection that might allow sexual intercourse.

(31:26) Men need to take a second look at this and decide for themselves what’s important in their life and what their definition of health is. Certainly, everyone likes to live longer—that’s nice. However, they’re very clear here that prostate cancer surgery does not result in a longer life. That’s very clear. So, if living longer is what you’re interested in, then prostate diagnosis and therapy make no sense.

(32:02) Maybe you feel as a man that it’s your responsibility to use the bathroom responsibly and not have accidents—not need diapers and not mess in your pants. If you have that value and that’s important to you, then you should probably pass on prostate therapy. Or maybe, as a male, you feel that you should have relations with women or even other men—whatever—that require proper functioning of your male genitalia. If that’s the case, if you value that, then prostate cancer therapy is not for you. If, on the other hand, you would like to establish your position in the pecking order—a lot of guys, this is important to them—then yes, prostate cancer therapy would be for you. If you want to establish, make it public, make it clear that you are an obedient male, that you do what you are told, that you will take one for the team—even if we can’t really quite find the team—then prostate cancer therapy is for you.

(33:24) This is an area of medicine that often is not very much explored. The whole ritual of being insured or having health insurance, going to the doctor, following doctor’s orders has little to do with being healthy or even becoming healthy. Once you get a grip on that, then you can take a look at this behavior and decide again for yourself what your social or cultural values are. That’s really all this is about. This is not about your health or getting healthier. In fact, it’s about harm and it’s about mutilation, castration. That is the prostate cancer situation.

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(35:16) Our shilajit is ready. So, I’ve stirred it up, and as you can see, it’s quite brown. I’m going to drink it right now. Yay! I’m going to chase that with some water because shilajit is not my favorite flavor. Yeah, good.

(35:51) I also like to tell people, we do have a question-and-answer part, and we’re going to answer some questions. I’m not always able to answer all the questions in every episode. At vitalitycapsules.com/appointment, you can get appointments, get information, and answer your questions. All right, let’s find these questions.

(36:31) Recently discovered you, and I’m very glad I did. You are welcome, Carly. I think it’s Carly. I was bulimic from age 14 to 16 and have been sporadically since then until a year ago. I am now 21. Should I approach your healing methods any differently? I’m also diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which might not be surprising. Anything you recommend for regulating periods? I’m currently on progesterone.

(37:05) So, progesterone only causes breast cancer. It’s very dangerous, very hazardous. That’s a bad idea. Polycystic ovarian syndrome is generally caused by dairy products. What’s dairy? Even when I first heard “dairy products” in medical school, they didn’t clarify it. So, does that include eggs? No, it doesn’t. Eggs are from chickens. A dairy product is not everything in the dairy section of the store. A dairy product is anything made with milk from a cow. Some people include milk from a goat as well.

(37:43) What does that mean? It means that if you eat out, even if you order the burger without the cheese, there’s dairy in the bun, and there’s dairy added, maybe even as filler in the hamburger. Dairy is used as a filler and additive in so many things, the only way to truly avoid it is by cooking at home exclusively. If you have something like polycystic ovarian syndrome, it’s worth it.

(38:30) Polycystic ovarian syndrome has a list of symptoms. If you’re not having abdominal pain from it, I would not worry about it at all. If you have a history of bulimia, then that alone could give you no periods, and you can restore your periods without progesterone by eating liver. So, I would say go for the liver and not the progesterone. That much I can tell you. For more information, you have to make an appointment, give me more details, and I can sort out more questions if you have them.

(39:16) This is a very interesting one. Carly—I think it’s Jamila—Jamila says, “My boyfriend and I got a cold around the same time. We both are stuffy with sinus infections, but no fever. He has bad sinus pain behind his eyes and is not releasing much mucus, while I’m releasing a lot. I’ve been sneezing and blowing my nose more. My question is, do you think my boyfriend’s sinus headache pain is from not being able to release, or do we just have a different illness?”

(39:50) I think your boyfriend’s pain is from not being able to release. More precisely, if we can be precise, if you take a look at your water intake per day and his, you will see he’s drinking a lot less water. He can correct that sinus release condition very quickly by increasing his water intake. So, he can just take his weight, divide it by 50, and drink that number of quarts of water a day plus one. That will get things flowing for him. He can also use a neti pot, N-E-T-I pot. Most guys will not do it, but go with the water.

(40:31) Also, if you have time, what are the steps to getting over a cold quickest? As a doctor, I was trained to believe that colds are caused by viruses. I now feel that there’s absolutely nothing to support that. Also, that colds are contagious. Probably not. Knowing that it’s not caused by a virus and it’s not contagious makes things a lot simpler. The simplest thing—what is a cold? A cold is your body producing mucus to cleanse and expel impurities that have accumulated in your body. That’s pretty much the size of it. How to get over it quickest is to drink cinnamon tea, which is my favorite. That’s just four sticks of cinnamon in a quart of boiling water. Pour the water into a thermos. Yes, like this. Just throw your stick of cinnamon in there. Let it steep for at least an hour—overnight is best—and then just sip it. That’s how I got so much better from last week.

(42:04) Jessica says, “Please tell us the truth about coronavirus.”

(42:12) So, we talked earlier today about coronavirus. The truth, from my perception—again, this is through my eyes, and maybe other people looking at the same thing might come to a different conclusion, and that’s okay—but the coronavirus appears to have two elements to it. The first is, how are people in China getting this? The way people in China are getting this is by animals being sold at market, sold and butchered right there in public. SARS was believed to have started with the same thing. So, you could think, well, maybe this coronavirus thing is an attempt to eliminate public handling of meat and turn all meat handling over to the commercial industries in China. I don’t know.

(43:13) The other thing to note is that in China, the response to the virus was a lockdown. Basically, you could think of it as martial law, restriction of people’s movements and activities, and so on in a very wide area—even wider than that of the virus. So, there might be something going on there. But the virus, in terms of its severity and known deadliness, does not warrant the World Health Organization declaring it a threat at all. You have to realize that China has 1.4 billion people, and we’re talking about the death of 100 out of 1.5 billion. This does not rise to a high level of health concern. The people who have left China, even though they’ve been infected with the virus, the ones that landed in the United States—one, they have not died, and two, they have not infected anyone else. So, the power of this virus is not very strong. Even in China, they are now revealing that the virus has only spread to close family members—people living in the same household as the infected person who went to the market and got the virus. This is not a virus you’re going to casually get by somebody sneezing in public, even if you’re in China. And in China, most of the people—the vast number who did die—were people who were already ill. So, this virus wasn’t the only factor in their death. That would be the truth about coronavirus, as far as I can tell.

(45:36) Tori says—I think it’s Tori—“I am a military spouse living in Laos.” Okay, how’d that happen? Yeah, that’s right, Laos. “Needless to say, I’m having trouble finding pine spirits. So, pine spirits is not the term. The technical term is pure gum spirits. It is from the pine tree, but it’s pure gum spirits. I’m an essential oil buff, however, because I make soap, so I didn’t, I do have pine scotch oil.” That probably is not the same thing. Pure gum spirits are from the sap of the tree, whereas the things that are described as oils are often from the wood.

(46:39) Pine scotch oil—I would say it’s not quite the same thing. However, if you’re adventurous, maybe you try using it. Okay, let’s see if it’s the same as turpentine. Let’s see what they say. Enhances…Okay, so it’s not the same as turpentine. Pine essential oil is made from the fir needles, not from the sap. The essential oil of the pine tree is not the same as turpentine. Turpentine is made from the sap, and the sap of the tree is used to make pure gum spirits with turpentine. I’ve talked to a lot of people who’ve used a lot of things, and people who have used the pine essential oil have had—it appears to be not as strong as the turpentine. So, if you want to give it a try, you could. It would be close, but probably not close enough. You’re not going to get the same effect as you would with turpentine.

(48:33) Carol says, “My name is Carol Mitchell, and I need your help. I have been having pain above my hip to my back for the past three weeks.” Okay, good news. This is only three weeks. “I have tried everything, but the pain gets worse, especially at night. I took painkillers, but they are only temporary.” Painkillers are definitely—if I say it the wrong way, go back. However, the fact that the painkillers are even temporary, that helps tremendously with the diagnosis.

(49:03) Simple thing for you, Carol, is look at what you’re drinking. Convert as many of your beverages as possible to distilled water. Then, increase the amount of water you drink to whatever your body weight is, divided by 50, and that’s the number of quarts of water. Drink that per day. You may even want to go a little over. You will see that will drastically improve your pain. Now, if that’s not enough, you can push it a little further. Increase your bowel movements. If you’re pooping three times a day, great. Try upping it to four or doing an enema daily, and that will go a long way to relieving your pain. Yeah, the pain is affecting my ability to work. I’ll bet it is.

(50:24) Jay says, “I’m female and I’m 60.” Okay, Jay. “I’m 62. So, I feel it pretty soon. I’ll be 63. Yay, I am so excited. According to the standard test, my thyroid is low normal. I did additional endocrine tests, but still considered normal.” Jay, you know what that means? That’s Spanish for “done.” You may have a problem, but it’s not your thyroid. Yep, that’s right. You may have a problem, but it’s not your thyroid.

(51:13) Let’s see if you give us any more clues. “According to several naturopaths, yes, they evaluated me as a person with low thyroid.” So, Jay, you don’t have low thyroid. Hard to lose weight, unless I’m on a less than 400-calorie diet, thinner hair, low body temperature, low energy and mood. One recommended natural thyroid supplement, which has helped, but it’s super expensive. “Use Lugol’s iodine paint and topically with lesser effect.” Jay, it’s not your thyroid. I tell people, look, if you’re going to dabble in this whole testing thing, then you can’t pick and choose which tests you’re going to believe. But here’s the thing, Jay, to ask yourself: What would make you overweight, have thin hair, low body temperature, low energy, and a bad mood? Malnutrition. I think you should take a look at that. Take a look at that diagnosis. Malnutrition. So, what could you eat that would help you lose weight, make your hair thicker, increase your body temperature, increase your energy, and make you a charming, pleasant person? I think that’s a more productive avenue to take.

(52:51) You’ve done the test, and I’ve done a whole radio show hour on what are they testing for, to explain how medical tests are developed, how they’re calibrated, how they’re interpreted, and what they really mean. You can go to my website, vitalitycapsules.com, click on “Replays,” and the episode “What Are They Testing For?” and I’ve also done many on thyroid. Bottom line though, if your thyroid tests are normal, the worst thing you could do is take a thyroid supplement of any kind. The reason for that is because taking a thyroid supplement will actually depress your thyroid and create the disease that you did not have at first. So, don’t do that. The one food you could eat would be either calf liver or chicken liver. Yep, that’s it. And it would provide so much more nutrition for you, you’d be able to easily lose weight because your appetite would go away. Your body would say, “Oh, I’m good, I’m good.” Your hair would thicken because it would balance out your hormones, and you’d get more of those estrogen-thickening hormones. Your body temperature would rise, you’d certainly have a lot more energy, and you would be upbeat and happy. So, that’s what I’d recommend. A fancy recipe, of course—salt, pepper, liver, and onions—your minimum recipe, salt, pepper, liver, and onions. You have to eat it with a starch, a carb—classically, that would be white rice. A vegetable—classically, that would be green beans, but anything green will do. And have a few leaves of raw lettuce on the side, and you will notice an amazing improvement. That’s right.

(55:02) Jay says, “Thank you.” And I say, Jay, you’re welcome.

(55:21) That is it for today. This is the end of our podcast, Healing with Dr. Daniels. And as always, think happens, and we will see you next week.