2020 Top 10 Predictions

Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and you are listening to Healing with Dr. Daniels. Today is Sunday, January 3rd. This is the first broadcast of the new year, and our topic is Dr. Daniels' 10 Predictions for 2020.

Before we get too far into it, I want to mention that even Fortune magazine's 2019 predictions—five of them—did not come to pass. But I’ve thought about these predictions, and I believe this is what’s going to happen. So, we’re going to have a lot of fun today with these 10 predictions.

First, I’d like to thank everyone who purchased during the three-for-the-price-of-one sale. The bonuses will be emailed to you tomorrow, which is the 6th. We’ll also be having the Customer Appreciation Webinar on Wednesday.

Awesome, that gets the administrative stuff out of the way. And, of course, we need to take our turpentine. Let me see—squeezy thing here—our pipette. We have our white sugar. White sugar is the best. It is the best. As the Chinese would say, "everything under the sun has healing properties." Yep, everything under the sun has healing properties.

Alright, so we've got some white sugar here. Yay. And we've got our turpentine over here. We're going to just suck that up in the syringe. There you go, a little bit less. I like mine to go right up there to the neck, right to the neck of the little pipette. This one happens to be half a teaspoon. So, we're going to just squirt this on here. Yum, yum, yum. Yum, yum, yum, yum. A little bit of sugar helps the medicine go down.

This is a particularly courageous way to take my turpentine because my computer keyboard is right there in front of me.

Alright, there's my turpentine sugar—a wonderful way to start the new year. And we have, of course, Shilajit. Yay, that tarry stuff. Here we go. This is our little spatula. You can use really anything—you can use a tine of a fork. But we're using this. This can be a little bit difficult to get out, which is why I use this special spatula. I see a bit sticking up here, so I'm just going to pull it out.

This is the little bit that I pulled out. Yep, and we're going to drop it and let it dissolve. Later in the show, I will drink the rest of it. Shilajit is really amazing because it has a much broader spectrum of trace minerals than other fulvic minerals. The source is from Russia, as opposed to the ones in the United States, which are from a pit in Utah.

Health care is just like any other retail product or commodity. People who were once patients will become shoppers. We're going to see more people price comparing their medical services. To get the maximum value out of this development in 2020, people need to drop their health insurance.

What’s happening now is that in many cases, the co-pay that the insured individual is paying is actually more than the cash price of the service. So, many people may find that even though they’re insured, they’ll be better off just paying cash. This trend is really going to take off, and it’s going to be made even easier by technology.

This is a wonderful thing because each patient will be put in a position of focusing on what they want and what they are shopping for. This will help them avoid falling into the trap of harm and maybe even death. Retailing and making health care a commodity means people will start looking to their friends and family for feedback on their experiences and what happened. This will remove the veil of secrecy that used to surround health care, where people couldn't compare quality or experience.

For example, my daughter is 32, and she and her friends—oh my gosh—they talk. You would think they were 80, but they talk about their OB-GYN, what procedures they’ve had, and the outcomes of those procedures. It’s really amazing because there’s so much more discussion going on. And since health care is being viewed as a retail consumable, people are sharing these experiences in real time, which I think is preventing a lot of harm.

Telehealth means that your doctor won’t be coming to the office, and you won’t either. This means no more waiting. You can just be at home, sit in front of your iPad, iPhone, or whatever device you use that has a visual screen, and you and your health professional will be communicating that way.

For most individuals, it saves a tremendous amount of time and money—not having to pay for parking, not having to arrange transportation. It’s amazing. With telehealth, there’s a lot less damage that can be done. The doctor can’t suddenly pull out a needle and jab you with it. I actually saw that happen when I was in medical school.

A patient will be in one location, the doctor in another, and the physical exam or medical encounter will happen via technology, via long distance. This is wonderful because it allows patients to focus on what outcome they want and not be distracted by the office setting, the two-hour wait, or the forms they have to fill out. Patients can remain more in control physically and psychologically.

My color quality is fluctuating—if yours is too, just relax and realize that nothing is changing on this end; it’s just technology.

Telehealth is wonderful. When I was in medical school from 1979 to 1983, we were told telemedicine would never happen. You cannot diagnose anything over the phone, and you certainly can’t diagnose without proper lighting in the person’s home. The equipment isn’t there, and you can’t possibly make an adequate diagnosis via what we now understand as Skype, Zoom, or whatever video format.

Even back then, I realized that wasn’t true. And when I work with people—I don’t practice medicine—but when I work with people, they tell me, “Dr. Daniels, I have never met you, and you’ve been more helpful to me than anyone else.” This is despite them having gotten on a plane or gone to an office. So, telehealth is going to be where it’s at, and I would really recommend embracing it. It’s an awesome trend.

Imagine not even having to leave your home. Imagine your appointment is at 10 o’clock, and guess what? It’s at 10 o’clock. If it’s not, oh well, just continue with your day. Telehealth is a major benefit to patients, less of an imposition on them, and it gives them more control. Anything that can give the patient more control is a wonderful thing because it’s going to decrease the harm and kill rate.

Growth at all costs will have a limit, as Forbes puts it, but to put it more bluntly, new technological innovations that have no benefit for the patient will have the brakes put on them. Investors are now at the table, and many of these technologies require an upfront investment of anywhere from $50 million to a few hundred million dollars.

Investors are now coming at the whole medical device and drug thing from the perspective of patient outcomes. If there’s no benefit, they’re not funding these. Investors have actually been pulling out of certain areas of healthcare because when they looked at the data, the research, the benefits weren’t there. These investors are, of course, naive, but they’re coming in with a different perspective.

Philanthropic investing in healthcare is on the rise. The philanthropists putting their own money on the line—these dot-com multimillionaires and billionaires—are saying, “We want something that works.” One example of this is cancer immunotherapy. The investors are saying, “This isn’t effective enough for us to invest in. We don’t see where the benefit is.” Every attempt at immunotherapy by the medical establishment in the past 40 years has been devastating for the recipients.

The best therapy for the immune system is a glass of water and a good bowel movement—maybe a piece of liver if you want to go next level. To say that you can find immunotherapy in a needle, IV bottle, or pill is, in my mind, already going in the wrong direction. The trend in 2020 will be more private investors insisting on results because many have made their fortunes with the aid of the internet. The good news is that ineffective therapies out the gate will have a greater chance of losing funding, and that’s a very nice thing.

The Medicare promise is broken. Forget it. If you live in the United States, you pay into the Social Security system, which is basically an income check when you’re over 65 or 67, depending on the rules. You also have healthcare coverage—80% for hospital coverage and no coverage for the doctor visit unless you buy an extra plan for doctor coverage, that would be Part B.

What Medicare has done is bundle the doctor and hospital together, maybe add some drug coverage, and have a private insurance company in the private sector provide the service. Medicare pays them a certain amount per month, and then they can bill the Medicare recipient for the rest. A no-pay plan has morphed into an insurance plan with premiums as high as $300 a month. If you’re a retired person on a Medicare pension of $1,000 or $1,500 a month, and $300 or more of that is being taken out for health insurance, then you’re pretty much plunged into poverty.

The prediction for 2020 is that Medicare will push more people into that plan. Even back in 1985, it was getting difficult for people to say, “Hey, I don’t want Part B. I don’t want to pay any out-of-pocket health insurance premiums.” My mother, for example, is 90. She pays $250 a month for this Medicare Advantage plan. What it covers and doesn’t cover, we won’t go into. But the point is, $7,000 per year out-of-pocket expenditure limit, and she spent $10,000 in one year.

So, the Medicare promise is essentially broken. When they’re offering you a plan that would bankrupt the average Medicare or Social Security recipient, the next step is the old folks put their house up as collateral to pay the insurance and health bills, leading to the loss of any intergenerational wealth, which Medicare was supposed to prevent.

Medicare is shifting from a government program that pays the medical bill of people who paid into it to a system of transferring the money people paid to private insurers, who then charge Medicare recipients boatloads of money. The Medicare system has become nothing more than a bait-and-switch to deliver people right back into the bankrupting medical financial situation they tried to escape.

The answer is to just not sign up for Medicare, or if you do, just sign up for Part A and that’s it. Skip the whole thing. It’s not like it’s going to help you. Healthcare is dangerous, and once you realize how dangerous it is, you would avoid it the same way you would avoid AIDS or a violent person with a gun. The healthcare system is certainly more dangerous and kills more people than violent maniacs with guns.

AI stands for artificial intelligence. AI means you have a machine with algorithms that, if you put in this information, it gives you that answer. The machine artificially reasons like a person in certain situations. Back in medical school, we were concerned about robots taking away jobs, and now it’s happening.

We’re going to see AI machines being able to replicate complex reasoning processes. Following the standard of care can be done by any monkey. It doesn’t require intelligence because the standard of care has nothing to do with the patient’s condition. This makes it very simple.

AI will handle more and more medical tasks, potentially replacing family practice, pediatrics, and internal medicine doctors, possibly even cardiologists and gastroenterologists. The only issue would be the revenue from procedures. The industry will work itself out, but you don’t need those tests to properly treat those conditions. As AI emerges, the profit picture will settle out, and companies making cardiac catheters might start making AI machines instead.

AI will continue to grow, and it will be great. Doctors, however, will be in for a challenge as many of them will be replaced. The combination of AI and telehealth means the doctor might not even be in the equation. The patient and AI will work it out, which can be convenient if you know what you need. AI can write prescriptions, help diagnose, and provide work notes or authorizations.

Primary care physicians may break free from hospitals, but many will be fired because hospitals can’t afford them anymore. Doctors with low debt will do better on their own, while those with high debt may struggle. The separation of primary care physicians from hospitals will cut the incentive for unnecessary hospitalizations, benefiting patients.

Data privacy will be taken more seriously. Since records are now electronic, there is zero privacy. The information in medical records has been sold to drug companies and others without patient consent. However, the awareness of this is growing, and there’s a backlash brewing. In 2020, the ability to sell that information will be limited or more restricted, which is a great development.

Vegans will be dying even younger. Various nutrients that are hard to get in a vegan diet are being compensated with artificial, processed, fake fortified foods. This trend will lead to deteriorating health for vegans. When I first became a vegetarian in 1986, there were no processed vegan foods available. Now, the health food stores are full of processed, fortified foods that are marketed as healthy but aren’t.

As a result, we can expect that the health of vegans will take a noticeable decline. Many vegetarians don’t even eat vegetables anymore; they’ve switched to synthetic foods. Dinner for them is like for anyone else—open a package, eat it, or heat it up. This will lead to a bad situation for vegans.

More alternative healers will become licensed, which means they’ll work for the government, not you. They’ll be obligated to steer you into the hospital system and avoid giving you information that would make you not need the hospital or drug system. A license means they are required to conform to certain standards that may not always be in your best interest.

More people will become aware that vaccines do not work and only create harm. This will cause a migration to states that do not mandate vaccines. Similar to the proliferation of states with no state income tax or states that legalize marijuana, this will pressure more states to drop their vaccine mandates.

Those are the 10 predictions for 2020. We’ll check back at the end of the year to see which ones came true. The good news is that there’s hope, and you can bypass the whole system. Treat yourself to no health insurance, save up the money, take a great vacation, do something fun and relaxing, but don’t fall into the trap that vegans have—eating processed so-called health food. There’s no such thing as healthy processed food—buy it like it came off the ground and cook it at home.

Avoid getting your health from licensed individuals, and as far as vaccines go, that’s something to vote with your feet. And now, we have questions. Yay! These are our Sunday podcast questions. As always, we have more questions than we can answer.

Other ways of getting your question answered are to make an appointment at vitalitycapsules.com/appointment, or you can join our membership group which trains you to be the healer in your home at vitalitycapsules.com/healathome.

Question 1: Hi, I injured my meniscus and my knee has been swollen for the last five months. Are there any alternatives to having knee surgery?

Dr. Daniels: Absolutely. Knee surgery is totally not effective. Look it up. To repair your meniscus, simply put a brace on. There are many knee braces that immobilize your knee in a slightly bent position, allowing the meniscus to heal. Also, drink plenty of water to help your body clean out that meniscus. To rebuild the meniscus, eat pig ears, as they have a maximum amount of cartilage.

Question 2: Hi, Dr. Daniels. Is there any cure for vancomycin-resistant enterococcus?

Dr. Daniels: I've never been diagnosed, so I'm guessing that's what it is. No, you can’t guess—either you have it, or you don’t. If you don’t know that it’s vancomycin-resistant enterococcus, it probably isn’t. So, we’ll just drop that label. From time to time, I get cloudy, foamy urine and some discomfort. That really comes down to dehydration, so you need to watch your hydration and not get dehydrated. The number one cause of urinary tract infections is not enough hydration.

Question 3: Thank you so much for being an education and inspiration. I started turpentine at five doses. I feel much better, and Candida seems to be remitting.

Dr. Daniels: Wonderful.

Question 4: My blood pressure will spike as much as 100 up to 160 over 90 after a short walk. Then I’ll sit for a few minutes, relax, breathe deeply, and it will go back to 103 over 68.

Dr. Daniels: Here’s the deal. You have a body with two arms, two legs, a torso, and a head. Most of your life, your body has only been circulating blood to your torso and head. It only requires a blood pressure of 103 over 68 to get that done. But when you walk, your heart has to circulate blood to the legs and arms, which it wasn’t doing before, and it takes up a lot more pressure. The cure is to increase your water intake—maybe drink a pint of water before you go for a walk and another liter while you’re walking. Walk more often. Make your walk half the length of what it took to get this blood pressure spike, and adjust your blood volume. Your heart will adjust so it can circulate blood through your whole body without raising your blood pressure.

Question 5: Do vitality capsules help detox pathogens and heavy metals?

Dr. Daniels: Yes, that comes out in your poop.

Question: Is body odor a sign of toxicity?

Dr. Daniels: Yes, but it’s a good sign that at least your body is dumping these toxic things. So, that’s very good.

Question 6: I heard having two copies of the MTHFR gene mutation compromises detoxification and methylation. Any thoughts on supplements that may help?

Dr. Daniels: First of all, it’s not true. Sixty-five percent of Americans have the MTHFR gene mutation, so how can you even call it a mutation if 65% have it? Why don’t we call it normal? What will solve this problem is for you to take a very serious look at the food you’re eating and remove the toxins and parasites from your food. The MTHFR gene mutation is of absolutely no significance. What is significant is the quality of the food you’re eating.

Question 7: What causes hand cramping when opening a tight lid on a jar?

Dr. Daniels: Let’s clarify that there is no hand cramping when the person is not opening the jar lid. The hand is perfectly fine. When you open a tight lid, you’re trying to use your muscles. For the muscles to contract and do what you want them to do, they need sodium, potassium, and calcium. The simplest thing to do is add some salt to your life. If it’s the muscles, the salt will take care of it. If it’s the nerves, your best bet would be to drink more water and eat some liver. The liver provides the cholesterol to help the nerves do their job better.

Question 8: My mother is 78 years old. She takes no medication, and her ankles are always swollen.

Dr. Daniels: These are called old lady ankles. They’re caused by inactivity. The best way to get rid of mom’s swollen ankles is to elevate her feet and get her out doing something. Have her drink more water and take little walks. Check her diet and remove any bread or sugar. Add some type of connective tissue, maybe pig’s feet, and boil them up to make a stew or something. Feed that to her twice a week, and take her on short walks. Once she can go halfway around the block, have her do some exercises like heel lifts to squeeze her calf muscles and pump the fluid out of her ankles.

Question 9: After soaking itchy feet in castor oil, should the oil be thrown out?

Dr. Daniels: No, you can reuse the oil as long as it relieves your symptoms. If it no longer gives you relief, throw it out.

Question 10: Can brown sugar be used with turpentine?

Dr. Daniels: It can be, but white sugar is the best.

Well, that is it for the first podcast of the year. I’d like to remind people to please go to vitalitycapsules.com and get your free report, The Candida Cleaner, which tells you all about the wonders of turpentine. Also, check out vitalitycapsules.com/healathome for a special program I’ve developed to help you become the healer in your home. This program will help you save time, expense, and even your life.

Goodbye, and as always, think happens.