It ain't your fault. Or maybe it is.

Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and you are listening to Healing with Dr. Daniels. This is the May 2nd, 2021 edition, and today's title is "I Bet My Life." Yep, today I'm going to talk about the many times I bet my life and how it has increased my health and happiness, and hopefully inspire you to do the same and get similar results. As always, think happens.

But first, Vitality Capsules Update. Yay! Ingredients have been located and are being shipped to the manufacturer, and I'm so excited. It's about an eight-week lag time, but hey, I've got the show on the road. Everything's passed multiple tests. We have obtained the ingredients that we want, the quality that we want. Yay! I'm so excited. That's Vitality Capsules. We do have a few remaining in stock, so you can get those at vitalitycapsules.com. There's regular and extra strength, and as you may already know, it is the internal cleanser that is comfortable enough for everyday use.

And there's Mom. Mom continues to do well. She is standing independently, grooming independently, and using the bathroom independently. Yay! Now, I'm saying the bathroom. It's the bedside commode, but she's independent with it, so that is cool. And she is enjoying managing her affairs, and we are all enjoying her managing her affairs. So, yay!

For people who have questions, by the way, we've got lots of questions mailed in. But if you want to mail in questions, it's J-D-A-A-N-I-E-L-S at gmail.com. When you mail in your questions to this email address, I get them on a list for consideration at the show, and I answer them as time allows. Yay!

All right, and then we have to take our turpentine. Don't want to forget our turpentine. Those of you who would like more information on how to take turpentine with awesome results and comfort, please go to vitalitycapsules.com and download your free report, The Candida Cleaner.

Okay, what do we got? A spoon, and I use a regular American teaspoon. And this is a dropper. It just so happens that when you go up to the neck of the dropper, right about there, it's two and a half cc's, which is half a teaspoon, which is the dose that I like to take.

All right, what are we going to use? White sugar. Why are we going to use white sugar? We're going to use white sugar because we're after parasites, and they love white sugar. And hey, when you're fishing for fish, you've got to use the right bait. Fishing for parasites, the right bait. Now, the sugar also forms a distribution function. So, the turpentine is a solvent and it coats every last little granule of sugar that it encounters. And that sugar releases the turpentine at a slower pace.

All right, so here we have our turpentine bottle, which is labeled close enough. And we have our dropper filled up right to the neck. You can see that right to the neck. And we're going to squirt this turpentine. You see how the sugar changes color? That's normal. You see how not all the sugar is covered? That's important. Because if you cover every last bit of sugar, then the ratio is off and you'll get dizziness. Nobody likes dizziness. I certainly don't.

All right, here we go. Now, when you swallow it, you'll feel it. Not here, but a little further down. Let me show you. About here. So, you must drink water to get it all the way down to your tummy. Okay? Do not scrimp on the water. All right, turpentine, down the hatch.

Now, I try and take it every day, but again, truthfully, I do miss about two days a week. Easy. So, that's the turpentine. That's the sugar.

And that brings us to Shilajit. As you can see, I'm not a neat freak. This is a Shilajit bottle. This is what it looks like. And it is from Russia, the Russian Federation. They take their Shilajit seriously. They scoop it right off the ground, a national treasure, and put it in a bucket like this. A little bucket, but a bucket. And we're going to open this, and it is gooey. Let's see if you can see it. How amazing is that? But we only need 200 milligrams of that.

So, we're just going to take out a little bit. There we go. That's about 200 milligrams, which is about, it's a little less than a quarter of a quarter teaspoon. And we're going to put it in water. Now, I'm in the tropics where it's really hot, so that's why it's gooey. Those of you who live further north, where you have snow, it might be almost like hard plastic. So, the consistency is different depending on the external temperature. All right, we're going to let that set. Needs time to dissolve.

That brings us to today's topic. I bet my life. So, as always, I am inspired by daily events. And so, as many of you know, I am working on improving my splits, and doing over splits, and I do backbends, and bridge, and I'm working on things like the scorpion pose. That's where you bend your head back, bend your legs up, and your head sits on your feet. Yeah, it does take a little bit of persistence and time.

So, of course, I share my progress with my friends. I'm like, oh, getting closer, getting closer, getting closer. They're like, oh my god, how can you do that? If I did that, I would break something. So, obviously, you break your spine, you're paralyzed, right? Or if you break your legs or tear something while you're doing splits, that means you pull the major, major muscle and torn a tendon. These are all crippling things, by the way, and for many people, it would pretty much end their life.

And so, the way that I can do these things is I bet my life. I literally bet my life on it. So, and that is really the mother of all major accomplishments. So, how do I decide what to bet my life on? Well, first, I calculate the risk.

So, the risk to me doing these exercises is just what I said. I mean, definitely. When I started, oh, so the risk is breaking my back or tearing major tendons and not being able to walk. That's pretty serious. And that would definitely end my life as I knew it.

However, at the time that I embarked on this, I was barely able to walk from this chair to the bathroom. Why? Because I had spent so much time in this chair. And I realized that if I didn't do it, I wouldn't even be able to leave the house or go anywhere. And I'd reached a point where I could barely walk even 12 steps. And that's the danger of working online, working from home and spending so much time in a chair is you get to where leaving a chair becomes very, very difficult. So, I realized that I had to do something to get more flexible or my life would be forever limited to a chair. So, calculating the risk and the benefit is important.

So, the benefit is I would be able to walk, and I could hike, and I'd be able to just go places and do things. I was even having difficulty getting in and out of the car. So, it was really just got to the point where I had to do something. So, the benefits were clear, but the risk was there.

So, I mitigated the risk. How do you mitigate the risk? Well, I literally have a human being whose only job is to catch me when I fall. And we even have an expression, and I'll just say, rescue me. And before I even try the particular stretch or pose, we figure out what's likely to go wrong and how she would need to catch me or lift me up to take the pressure off of the joint or the tendon in question. And we get it real clear how much strength this is going to take. Does she have this strength? Okay. Yes, she does. Great. Or she doesn't. Let's try another way to go about it where the amount of effort she would have to put to rescue me would be less. So, mitigate the risk.

Calculate the risk. The risk was real. Yes, I could break my back. Yes, I could break my legs. Yes, I could become a forever cripple. However, mitigate the risk. Very important step. Calculate the return. And finally, commit. Commit. It will be done. No halfway measures.

The other thing I did was I made adjustments along the way. Just adjustments. And the adjustment would be, I guess I can't do that stretch. Let's try a lesser stretch. Let's try a different stretch. And eventually, I got to where I could do splits. And now I'm working on my over splits. And that's very exciting. I can do the backbend bridge, although I prefer to start out the floor and lift up. And that is a major, major progress. So now, I would say my flexibility is pretty much back to where it was when I was a kid. So, I am more flexible now than I was at the age of 11.

That's exciting. And so, I have a lot of fun now. And so now, of course, I have a lot of friends and I adopt grandkids. And we play water gun games in the backyard. And we go to the river. We play at the river. And we play with the blocks and toys and stuff. And I get to sit down right there on the floor with them and pop up and down. I have more energy and flexibility than even their mother has. So, that makes it easy, very easy. Now, at this point, of course, for me to continue because I need even less support. I actually need a different kind of support in terms of keeping everything very safe.

But how can I do splits and be so flexible and do all these things? Answer, I bet my life. Bet my life. Now, what else have I bet my life on? I'll tell you. It's just, excuse me, endless list. So, way back when, when I was a teenager, as 18, I went off to Harvard. And Harvard, as you might be aware, is expensive. And I had figured out that I did not want to get mired in debt. That if I got mired in debt, you know, it would not economically make sense to go.

And I assessed the situation at the outset, and Harvard was very clear. They said, you know, we've been at Harvard. And of course, we want you to come. We want to get really, really clear that Harvard statistically does not help people advance from one economic class to the other. So, if you come in middle class, you're going to come out middle class. If you come in poor, you're going to come out poor. In other words, your whole life as it unfolds going forward is not going to be economically different than if you did not go to Harvard. And that's an important distinction. So, what Harvard had done is they followed kids who accepted, all the kids they accepted, the ones that said, oh, yeah, we'll go to Harvard. And the ones that said, nah, go to state school, or forget it, go to college. The ones that decided to go to Harvard did not do better. Now, looking at some famous Harvard dropouts, you might wonder, did the ones that go to Harvard actually do worse? I don't know. They didn't do that study.

However, what does this mean? Why are we talking about that? Well, I was offered or became aware of the opportunity to sell books. I could work 80 hours a week in a city where I didn't know anybody, hitchhike to work every day, and knock on the door of total strangers and ask them to sell books and give me money. Now, obviously, you can take a look at this situation. There's a lot of things that are dangerous about that, right? So, I could have gotten killed while hitchhiking, and my body would be at the side of the road. I could have been killed by entering the home of a stranger who maybe, I don't know, was a mass murderer looking for someone to kill. I could have been robbed or mugged of the money that I was collecting in deposits as I went along. So, there's a lot of things that could go wrong here. And to top all that off, the dean of students at Harvard made a public announcement that taking such a job was beneath the dignity of a Harvard student. And I had read the admissions manual, all the reasons you get kicked out of Harvard. So, of course, you get kicked out of Harvard for conduct unbecoming a Harvard student. So, I'm like, uh-oh. So, now we have another risk. So, these are all potentially life-ending scenarios, right? Getting killed, working so hard to get into Harvard, and then getting kicked out if that happened.

So, of course, I had to go meet. So, then we enter the risk mitigation. So, I met with the dean of students and said, wait a minute, am I going to get kicked out of Harvard if I sell books door-to-door? He says, ah, of course not. I said, okay, great. That risk handled. But then I just want to mention the benefits. Of course, the benefits of selling books door-to-door, the amount of money the students made was so great that working during the school year is no longer necessary. That would mean I could get higher grades and getting into medical school would be easy without, you know, if I didn't have to work. So, the return of selling books door-to-door is very high, very high. And so, I committed. I went ahead and I did it. I worked 80 hours a week, actually 81 hours a week. I got the gold seal, gold award. And I earned enough money that I didn't have to work while going to Harvard. I had the extra study time. And I applied to 13 medical schools and got accepted by 11. Great. Easy, easy, easy.

So, you got to calculate the risk, calculate the return of benefit and mitigate the risk. And then you mitigate the risk, you get the risk down to where the benefits are much higher. So, a lot of times when you look at something that's risky and you are considering betting your life on it, the risk is easily up here. But you mitigate the risk and you focus on the benefits or even increase the benefits and then go for it. So, selling books door-to-door, that was a big one. You can imagine selling that one to my family. By that time, of course, my parents just said, you know what? If you think it's a good idea, then do it. So, I did it. And that worked out great.

Now, although I did earn a pile of cash selling books door-to-door, my money was running a little bit short by the time junior year came around. More precisely, I was not keen on turning my money over to Harvard for actually any reason. I didn't mind spending my money on my personal expenses. But suddenly, when I had to depart with that cash and hand it to Harvard, I'm like, oh, wait a minute, we have got to recalculate this. So, going into my senior year, yes, it was my senior year. The summer of my senior year, I became aware of an opportunity to live off-campus where the cost of food plus lodging was less than 25% of what Harvard was charging. Yeah, thousands of dollars saved. Money I would not have to spend or give to Harvard. Money I would not have to go to work to earn. And then, this way, the money I'd earn selling books door-to-door would last all the way to graduation.

So, what was the risk? Well, we were told that living off-campus was dangerous. It would be a distraction. People who live off-campus, they would never graduate. And, of course, they assigned rooms by lottery. And my senior year, I won the lottery for the 23rd floor, private suite with a view overlooking the Charles River. Yes. Graduates, multimillionaires, paid fortunes for a condo along the Charles that fit those specifications. So, I was giving that up. However, the off-campus spot was closer to campus, closer to my classes, than the dorm was. It was part of another university complex. I had excellent security, more privacy, and free time since I didn't have to walk as far to get to classes, and privacy because I didn't live around my classmates. And I was able to really think more, plan my future, and not have the pressure of groupthink. So, I went for it. I moved off-campus.

Now, of course, I moved to the campus of a religious divinity school. So, it was super tranquil, really calm. Everyone was very pleasant and kind and positive. And so, I didn't have that intensity of competitiveness that you can actually just feel when you're around other Harvard students. So, it worked out very well. I was able to make ends meet. I had a very calm time. I enjoyed my admissions to medical school. And everything was moving. Then, actually, it was the last year at Harvard and really the first year at medical school that this plan solidified, the next time that I bet my life. And betting my life by now had become, well, quite the activity. So, in medical school, it was very intense. Now, classes were taking up 40 hours a week, and studying was taking another 40 hours a week. You can see where this math is going. And so, I just didn't have a lot of time.

And I had agreed to accept a monthly payment from the government in exchange for working in an area of the United States that was so remote that they could not pay anyone to work there. And for every year I allowed the government to assist me, I had to go work in one of these locations. Nevertheless, the amount I was given every month was a very small amount. And as I looked at it, it was not enough for food and rent. And I didn't have a lot of time anyway. And so, I said, ah, bright idea. I'll eat every other day. And so, of course, I was a medical student, and in medical school, they teach you, you've got to eat three meals every single day. That's just the way it is. And if you don't, you'll die. So, here I was looking at my budget, and I calculated a few times, and I spent hours doing these calculations. And I realized that eating every other day was really the only way I could make the budget work. And I said, huh, I could die. But on the other hand, if I don't do it, then I'm not going to be able to get out of medical school anyway. And my whole life would be down the drain. I said, well, okay, there we go.

So, what did I do? I ate every other day. And I had more time to study. I was able to live on my income. I did not have to take out loans. I did not have a weight issue like many of my classmates had. I had excellent health and energy, and I graduated on time, and no health issues while in medical school. And many, many of my classmates who did eat every day had a lot of issues. And so, eating every other day was something that on the face of it was like, oh, my God, that's dangerous. You'll kill yourself. And it worked out so well that I continued it for seven years. Seven years. And I have such a long list of all these things I've done that I've bet my life on, things that people told me, you can't do that. You're going to kill yourself. You'll die.

And since we're running a little short on time, I'm just going to go through the list without... I'm not going to go through a lot of detail, but just the list. But again, calculate the risk, mitigate the risk, and calculate the return or benefit, and then commit. Or don't. And if you don't commit, if you're not going to do it, don't even get started. Don't put a penny of resources towards it or a minute of time. Just leave it alone. So, you have to commit or not. All in or not. And that's really the secret to succeeding at these things where you bet your life. So, locating my office. So, my office is located in a drug-dealing, high-homicide rate neighborhood, a ghetto. Unsafe for children, lots of vandalism. Why would I want to locate my office there? Well, low cost of business, low cost of living. And what's my mitigating factor? My friends and family live there. And I didn't have any fear of my neighbors. And the way the medical practice worked, my plan, is the people who live there would also be my patients, and they would protect me because I would be nice to them. And that actually worked out very, very well. And having the low cost of business and the low cost of living meant that I had a very, very comfortable life.

The turpentine story, risking my life, taking turpentine. You can get that story at vitalitycapsules.com. Just download the Candida Cleaning Report. Doing splits and backbends, we talked about. Eating cow brain. So, mad cow disease, we've all heard it. It will kill you, by golly. It'll make your brain rot and dissolve. The mental decline and death. So, I took a look at this. And after some time, when predictions of dire death occur, you have to look around and say, okay, where's the bodies? Body count, body count, where's the bodies? And of course, there were no bodies. The death rate from mad cow disease was zero. And like, really? You don't think even a trace of cow brain got into Slaughterhouse, huh? And what about that spinal cord that's located in the center of your T-bone steak, huh? So, I decided I would give it a try, that I would risk it. So, of course, I cooked it well, used recipes of the ancient people from prior generations who ate the stuff. And what did I find? Mental clarity, increased energy and coordination, and just a total transformation of my life.

I am 64 years old, and I am so happy to be mentally alert, creative, capable of receiving new information, thinking about it, and being creative about understanding it and the implications. This is something most people at 64 years old, just like, yeah, it's like, I'm not doing that anymore. Forget it. So, for me, it has amounted to just another fountain of youth, really. But again, it was, I bet my life on it, and the bet worked out.

And, of course, there's my vicious, ferocious neighborhood dogs that bite people and terrorize the whole neighborhood. And the risk, of course, is that they would maul me, and I would die of blood loss and infection from the many bites. The other benefit is I now have a peaceful walk around the neighborhood, escorted by these dogs who have become my guardians, and who handle all threats, imagined or real, as we go around the block. And there are even two more dogs auditioning to join my entourage. So, again, definitely, I bet my life on it. This took an incredible amount of courage, I want to tell you, but it worked out. So, the risk was real. These dogs could seriously bite me, even kill me. The benefit, though, is I would live in peace and be able to peacefully walk around the block and mitigate the risk. I'd give them treats. And it's worked out really well. And so now, when I open my gate and walk out, dogs perk up, look my way, check, he wants to come with you, like, yep, come on, let's go. And it's really transformed the experience and transformed my life.

And you can do the same in your life. And you say, well, Dr. Daniels, I'm kind of a cautious person. I don't really want to bet my life on stuff. Guess what? Newsflash. Every day, you're betting your life. Every single day. The decisions that you've made already, day to day, you are risking your life. You're risking your resources. When I say resources, I mean your very breath. Your breath, your time, your energy. And when you direct those in areas that are harmful to you, you're actually destroying your life. And when you direct those into areas where you have incredible, extreme possibility of benefit, whether it's taking turpentine, which rebuilds damaged cells and gets parasites to leave, whether it's eating a cow brain, which builds up your brain, reverses Alzheimer's, increases your intelligence, whether it's doing splits and backbends and increasing your flexibility so that you don't fall and you don't need a cane or a wheelchair. These are all behaviors that society has labeled as risky. And so when you do these and get the benefits, it's an incredible boost to your health. But by not doing these, you're actually betting your life on something else. So you need to understand that whatever you do during the day, you are actually betting your life. And once you realize that even getting up and going to work for eight hours, you're betting your life on that job. Maybe it's a good bet. Maybe it's not. But you need to understand you are betting your life. And you need to take a look at that and say, okay, what's my risk? What's my benefit? Is it worth it? Should I put this energy someplace else? Many people, their job is destroying their health. How? Maybe they don't have, maybe they have a two-hour commute, in which case they can't use the bathroom, so they cut back on their water, which gives them increased risk of stroke and heart attack. Or maybe they're working from home and they're sitting in a chair all day. What does that mean? It means no circulation to their legs. It means the muscles in their legs dissolve and get weak. So whatever you do, you are betting your life. It is sucking your life out of you. And so you've got to, I think, make your life bet a little more conscious. So go for it. Actively bet your life.

So we have questions. Okay, that's interesting. My niece is in the first trimester of pregnancy and was told she has a subchorionic bleed seen on ultrasound. She's having abdominal pain. She's presently on bed rest. Do you have any suggestions? Yes. Stop doing ultrasound. Do not do any more ultrasounds. Stop it. Why? Subchorionic bleeds, usually they limit themselves. The pressure of the baby growing provides counter pressure, which stops the bleed. Now she can also eat more cruciferous vegetables and spinach. So it'd be like collard greens, broccoli, kale, spinach. Those things increase your body's clotting abilities and stop the bleed. But stop the ultrasounds. Also, some blood is collected there, and so she may want to eat some liver like once a week or so, and that will help her build up more blood. But ignore it. Because the only thing that's going to happen here, the worst thing that's going to happen, is the baby will abort or she'll have a miscarriage. So the doctors have no ability to influence that. You can tell because they're putting her on bed rest, which is a totally ineffective intervention, by the way. Although it sounds good, and we doctors like to recommend something. I mean, who likes to say, eh, don't know, can't help? No. So increase your blood clotting ability by eating those greens. Increase your blood production by eating liver. And realize that this condition will take care of itself one way or the other. Either the bleed will stop, and the pregnancy will just go fine, or she'll have a miscarriage. Either outcome. But definitely eat the greens.

Thank you so much for all the questions that you take for your Sunday shows. I really enjoy your shows when I can listen. My question is, I don't want to take the COVID vaccine, but may have to for work. Is there anything like turpentine, et cetera, that could protect me from the ingredients if I'm required to get it, or that can negate any effects? Thank you so much in advance. Okay. Here's a case where you are betting your life. You're betting your life on the vaccine. In other words, you're taking the vaccine and you're aware that it could kill you or permanently damage you. And you're betting that your work is worth the risk. So you've got to realize which way you want to bet. And that's all it is, is a wager. It's just exactly what I was talking about today. Obviously, if it was, I mean, you could look at my life and you can tell which bet I would take. But I would recommend that you start looking for other work. I would also recommend that you restructure your lifestyle so that your job is less important. And I would, yeah, look for other work. You'd be shocked. A lot of times when you get out of a rut and stop a particular job, the one that replaces it is much more fun, more interesting, and more lucrative. So that would be my advice after that. As far as turpentine goes, apply turpentine directly to the injection site and apply it about five times a day. Do not cover it with a Band-Aid, but apply the turpentine about five, at least five times a day. And that will help diminish the effects. People have reported good results with that. But I think your better bet is to look for other work. And there's a scandal now in the United States where people are presenting fake vaccination certificates, which they cannot tell from the real ones. And so the government's working on shutting down these things on the internet that make big business in selling fake vaccine certificates. So you may want to check that out before it gets totally shut down.

Okay, let's see how we're doing for time. We are over time. All right. Well, I've answered a few questions. I hope that's been helpful. And so we'll see you next week. And as always, think happens.