Katie bar the door

Hi, this is Dr. Daniels. You're listening to Jammin' with Jen, and this is the Sunday, February 27th, 2022 edition. Today's title is Katie, Bar the Door. Yep, today we're going to talk about how you can bar the door, improve your communications and health, and as always, think happens.

But first, an update on mom. I am so proud. Mom is 90 years old and continuing strong. She has regained all of her faculties, making decisions, and just living her life. My daughter has gone to visit her, and they are chopping parsley and tomatoes, making tabbouleh, just like 20 years ago. We are all absolutely thrilled.

Now, of course, mom is grappling with technology, but we're trying to put that on the back burner. "Hey mom, don't worry about that." That's the story of mom.

My progress—I am now doing split reps. What does that mean? It means so many splits where you alternate left front, right front, left front, right front. I'm now up to 10 reps each side. Taekwondo is going very well, and yes, I'm very confident I will make my next belt. Yay. It's only in June, but you know, at my age—64, 65, whatever—you've got to work on these things in advance. None of this last-minute stuff.

We've got to take our turpentine. I'm telling you, every now and then, I say, "Ah, I'm going to just put turpentine aside." And then I realize, oh, one thing turpentine does—and nothing else has been able to do for me—is erase my joint stiffness and give me very clear vision. So I'm not looking for any cataract replacement or any kind of assistance with my eyes. It's really been just amazing.

So what do we need? White sugar. Yay. Our friend, white sugar. It's time for a refill in the sugar. Oh well, we'll have to check out the kitchen on that one. What do we got here? All right, there we go. Kind of a heaping teaspoon, whatever you're able to heap.

Then, of course, there's turpentine. It's important to label it and to measure it. It's two and a half cc's, up to the neck here. That is the dose that works best for me. Two and a half cc, for those of you who are not into metrics, is a half teaspoon. And we just squeeze that up. This is pretty close to the top there, as you can see. And that's good enough for me. We're going to squirt that right on. Squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt. And when you get through squirting, you should have some sugar that is not covered. That's very important.

We have our water. There you go, down the hatch.

Also, we're going to take shilajit. Shilajit is a trace mineral. Why are we taking shilajit? We're taking shilajit because your body makes all these awesome enzymes, but they need trace minerals to be activated. Trace minerals are not in your diet anymore because you flush your poop instead of using it to fertilize your plants. Therefore, your minerals cannot be recycled and are necessarily being depleted.

I like to use a chopstick, and we just take this, dip it in there, and pull it out. Sometimes they're better than others. There we go. And that's about 200 milligrams. Put that in our water. Bam. As you can see, it does not readily dissolve. We're going to let it just sit, and we're not going to stress ourselves.

I take the turpentine about two to three times a week, and I take the shilajit about five times a week. I shoot for every day, but end up missing one or two.

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All righty, that brings us to today's topic. I'm so excited. Times are changing so fast that many expressions, like "Katie, bar the door," are totally meaningless to people who speak the same language and dialect. So, speaking English to another English speaker, even in the same dialect, is not very meaningful because you may actually fail to communicate. This makes quick and accurate communication almost impossible. In fact, even emojis now have several contradictory meanings—the same emoji!

I was talking to my daughter, and she shared an experience about a possibility that was so clearly undesirable that I said, "Oh, Katie, bar the door." My daughter did not laugh. That's when I realized she did not know what it meant. I realized the richness that was lost in our communication because she was not aware of the context of this expression. Let me tell you, I'll share it with you.

So, on or before 1965, there were TV stories about the Wild West. Back then, the only defense was the men of the household, presumably armed with guns, and every house was equipped with a very strong plank or bar that would be placed in brackets inside the house to the wall on either side of the door. So, you have these brackets in the wall, and someone would take the bar and put it in the brackets, and this would prevent the door from opening.

Now, when a band of robbers riding horses would come to the house to rob and kill the occupants, a strong and able-bodied family member with a gun would yell to the beautiful but frail Katie to put the bar in the brackets so the bad guys could not enter, and the men of the house would then load their guns and shoot at the bad guys through the windows.

The humor of the expression is that Katie was weak and did not do much, but the little that she did do saved the day and allowed the stronger members of the family to be effective. Hence, "Katie, bar the door" refers to taking a modest but essential action to avert certain disaster.

In protecting your health, there are several such steps you can take. Now, remember, we're focusing on modest but essential actions to avert certain disaster. What's a certain disaster? Between where you are now and the grave, illness will show up. So, one such maneuver, which is essential but will avert disaster, is exclusively drinking purified water. I recommend distilled. Why? Well, parasites, like the bad guys in the expression "Katie, bar the door," enter your body via the door of your body—that would be your mouth—and the water you drink and cook with. So, it is far easier to bar the door and not allow the parasites to enter, rather than to allow your immune system to be overrun.

Another step is frequent bowel movements. I recommend at least three a day. Why? Well, this seems to be the number that allows the body to heal, removes the health robbers that are already in your body, and Vitality Capsules also help with this lofty goal.

And finally, if the bad guys find their way in, there's the big guns—that would be turpentine. It's an example of this, and you can get the free report at vitalitycycles.com.

So, today's show—what's the big takeaway? Be patient, communicate with compassion, it's okay to clarify the expressions that you use, and have the goal to understand what the person you're talking to is saying, and to help them understand what you're saying, because the language is changing so rapidly. And, of course, be your own Katie. Bar the door to parasites by filtering your water and pooping three or more times a day. You can always go to vitalitycycles.com, check it out, and find out more about this.

All right, that brings us to questions.

Q: Dear Dr. Daniels, how do I get rid of parasites on my eyes? I tried the turpentine protocol, but it didn't help me with that. Thank you in advance.

A: We're not sure how you tried the protocol, but let's just say you did whatever. The turpentine protocol is really extremely powerful with eye problems. So, check to make sure you're drinking the proper amount of water. Check to make sure you really are having three or more bowel movements a day. Let's say, check that, check that, got that. So, the next thing to do is eye washes. My favorite for gentleness and effectiveness is the ginger tea eye wash. So, I'm going to say this, and you can replay this several times to figure it out, because a lot of people feel it's complicated, but whatever.

Fifteen slices of ginger in a cup and a half of water. Simmer for 10 minutes. Strain. Add anywhere from a quarter teaspoon to a teaspoon of that to one cup of distilled water. Use that one cup of distilled water plus a little bit of ginger tea. Pour it into eye cups. Put the eye cups to your eyes. Tip back. Blink, blink, blink. And there you go. You can do that until the one cup of eye wash is gone. And that's it.

We'll see you next week.