Are equal rights killing you?

(0:00) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels and welcome to Healing with Dr. Daniels. It is Sunday, December 8th, 2019, and today's topic is, "Is equal rights harming you?" Yes, could be even killing you. What if social inequality was a good thing?

(0:26) So today we're going to talk about equal access and how equal access could be, well, killing you. So we don't want that to happen to you.

(0:48) Now you're probably wondering why I'm so close to the microphone. I've got a lot of feedback about the microphone and that the sound is much better when I'm close to the microphone. So we're getting a little closer.

(1:06) Equality in healthcare, will it make you healthier? Now there's the question. Now, another question is what if social inequality was a good thing? What if a group that was disadvantaged had the better outcome? What if the group that had the more advantage, more healthcare had the worst outcome?

(1:26) Well, let's just take a look at it. Now let's, you know, take a look on the bright side here. And if the bright side, we can look at the Khan, K-H-A-N, Khan Academy, and they have a lot of information, super positive stuff.

(1:38) They talk about social inequality and how it's a bad thing. Now, in all fairness, as always, I'd like to talk about what prompted today's topic. So prompted today's topic was an article in Medical News Today. Let's see if we can get a name, a date on this.

(2:07) I don't see a date on this, but it's 2019. And it says people are living longer despite care inequalities. Don't even say healthcare. So the World Health Organization reports that life expectancy has increased by five years, but data that means somebody counted shows inequalities in access to health services among countries.

(2:38) And despite this, people are living longer in all countries, even the ones with health inequalities. And what I like is that the country with the absolute worst situation, let's see if they give it to us here again, had a whopping six-year increase in life expectancy, raising the life expectancy all the way up to 60 years of age. I have already exceeded that. So definitely not a place to meet for me to live.

(3:26) So the challenge is in sorting out how is it that people are living longer? In other words, your life expectancy is increasing even in areas without universal healthcare access. So the article goes on to say, well, you have to adjust to challenges by tackling the risks. So you have to handle heart disease. Well, that requires access to healthcare. So forget that.

(3:53) And death before the age of five, not really sure how they plan to handle that. And 4.3 million deaths due to air pollution from cooking fuels. Not air pollution from industrialization, but cooking fuels. All right.

(4:10) 3 million deaths resulting from outdoor pollution. That would be the industrial piece. And 1.5 million deaths due to road traffic injuries. So maybe we don't need to build so many roads in these disadvantaged places. And those are the things we talk about.

(4:36) The big deal here, though, is that providing additional healthcare doesn't seem to be necessary to increasing life expectancy. So I said to myself, well, let's take a look at this. If that's the case, then we people in the first world are spending an awful lot of money on a very low yield area.

(4:57) So let's look at the Khan Academy. And it's really important when looking at these things to carefully listen to what they say. So the Khan Academy feels that social equality is very, very important. And they've even done a whole video on it. You can find it at www.khanacademy.org forward slash. And so they describe things as a pyramid.

(5:38) And at the top of the pyramid, you have people with more money and more access to healthcare. That's a small number of people. At the bottom of the pyramid is the rest of us blokes with supposedly less money and less access to healthcare and, of course, less life expectancy.

(5:55) All right. So the video accurately states the facts. Health facilities are more likely to be located in wealthier communities. Now, the listener is left to draw the erroneous cause and effect relationship. But the cause and effect relationship is that if you have a wealthier community, then for-profit healthcare facilities are going to locate there.

(6:21) Now, what they don't say in the video is in very poor areas, inner-city ghettos with the highest disease burden, let's say, or lowest life expectancy is where the teaching hospitals, the best hospitals are located. So that is omitted. But they do go on to say that housing does not protect people from the elements, poor people. They have poor housing. And this is true.

(6:49) And when I researched life expectancy as far back as 1978, it was. That's exactly what I found. That medical care has no impact on life expectancy. It's only not a positive one. And that housing is an important one. They also mentioned overcrowding where disease can spread. And in the United States, in poor neighborhoods, there really is not the overcrowding we see in other countries.

(7:15) So when I travel, I realize, oh my God, you have families living five people to a 10 by 10 foot room. And in the United States, because of housing codes and different laws, we really don't have that level of overcrowding. Also, poor diet. And when I researched life expectancy, poor diet is a huge, huge thing. And they mentioned food deserts. That's a new term coined for inner-city areas.

(7:44) And these are areas of food desert is where fruits and vegetables are not readily available. Now, I lived in a ghetto. I grew up in a ghetto. And people might call it a food desert because there's all these convenience stores. But back when I was a kid, everybody had a backyard garden. And if you didn't have a backyard garden to grow your collard greens, why, you were just ignorant.

(8:05) And so what has happened really nowadays, it's a lifestyle change that people are not planting gardens. And these gardens can be backyard gardens, windowsill gardens. All it takes is two cups of dirt and you're in business. So the poor diet is definitely an issue. However, the poor diet in the United States is more one of choice.

(8:33) When I say one of choice, I mean, again, people, for whatever reason, have a cultural habit of getting their food from a grocery store or out of the package. And that's where the poor diet comes out. And then, of course, there's jobs with dangerous environments, toxic exposures at work. And so a job with a dangerous environment cannot be fixed by healthcare.

(8:58) Seeing a doctor is not going to fix the environment at your job. And toxic exposures at work, such as miners breathing bad dust, is not going to be helped by healthcare. So you can see then that the diet, the overcrowding, the housing, the dangerous job, toxic exposures at work, these things really do shorten your life expectancy.

(9:15) But none of them can be impacted by having better healthcare or seeing a doctor more often or taking a pill or a drug or getting a surgery. And the video also goes on to say that African-Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics do not have access to healthcare. If they do have access to healthcare, it's lower quality healthcare.

(9:44) What? There's no such thing as lower quality healthcare in the United States. How can you have lower quality healthcare? You have doctors licensed. You have board certification. You have the hospital has to be certified. The clinic you work out of has to be certified by the government. Even the nurses are all certified. So what does it mean?

(10:07) It's not possible to have low quality healthcare in the United States. So I'm not sure what this is. So poor access, it means can't get healthcare. And lower quality healthcare, when they do get it, I'm not sure what that means. Maybe it means they don't get follow-up visits. Now she goes on to draw the conclusion that these people, African-Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics, have higher morbidity, that means disease, mortality, that means death rates.

(10:35) And that's not true. We'll find out later. We'll later take a look at that. And so she goes on to say when income, insurance, and access to healthcare are equal, people in lower socioeconomic status do not, they still have a lower life expectancy. And so the real issue here is the socioeconomic status.

(11:00) And I interpret that to mean the value society places on the individual. And so the real issue then in terms of your life expectancy is not how to get more healthcare, but how to escape the low value society has placed on your particular life. And they go on to say that people with low socioeconomic status, we don't know what that is, but let's just say unimportant people, whoever they may be, do not get standard healthcare or healthcare for life-threatening conditions.

(11:41) So in other words, if you have a low social status, then you're not going to benefit from increased healthcare. So gender differences, men don't get vaccines or checkups, it's a negative on men. But the negative for women is that research on healthcare is done on men, not women. And so when these research results are applied to women, you can get negative effects.

(12:07) So it looks like men are harmed by not getting healthcare is what they're saying here. And women are harmed by getting healthcare. All right. And then if you're LGBT, I believe that would be lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, then these people face discrimination from the health system, and they are reluctant to get services when they need them.

(12:24) And the discrimination, of course, is simply a lot of times very poor treatment from the healthcare practitioners themselves. And this is actually also what I noticed happens with poor people or people with a darker skin. Now, this whole video, and too bad I can't show it to you, but it plays on this whole envy thing, people with more money, people with more status, people...

(12:56) And so it plays on the desire of the listener to have something they believe someone else has. So what they're saying then to the listeners, hey, you should have healthcare because other people have it. People with more money than you have it. So you need it. But envy is not a scientific measurement of the value or benefits to your health of healthcare. And so having healthcare satisfies the envy that people have.

(13:33) Okay. I've got something that rich people have. Okay. But as with any kind of envy, the thing that you envy may not have any intrinsic value. And so then what this does by marketing this healthcare with envy is when a person gets healthcare, access to healthcare, their emotional desire for envy is satisfied. And they're actually very happy because their desire to have this quality or possession is satisfied.

(14:05) And they don't look at, is this making them healthier? And it's unfortunate. The next thing that the video plays to is greed. This is an intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. And so what they do then in this video is subtly equate healthcare with wealth. And so, again, it satisfies the listener's greed, which is a very strong emotion.

(14:41) And again, no place in the video is there any scientific association between healthcare and let's say life expectancy, some kind of metric we can measure.

(14:50) Next thing is social status. Social status is actually kind of important. So social status is a measurement of a social value and a socially valued role or category a person occupies.

(15:04) And so it's important actually to have social status when you live in a society. What's social status? Social status means that you are valuable, that if something happened to you, society would care. And of course, I grew up in the inner city in the ghetto.

(15:19) And from a very early age, I would say about three for sure, it was made really clear to me that I had no social status, that I was not valuable, that if anything happened to me, my parents would care, but they couldn't do anything. And other people just wouldn't care. So it's a pretty tough pill to swallow.

(15:44) But when you begin digesting it at age three, it becomes much easier. But many people feel or believe that they can get social status by having healthcare, that healthcare, even the word "care," is a signal that their social value in society has increased, and therefore society will protect them, and they will have a better life and a longer life. Unfortunately, there is no evidence of this.

(16:16) In other words, there's no evidence that healthcare produces this, although social status is important. Now, along with social status comes human rights. So human rights is an attempt to assure people the ability to satisfy their basic needs like food, housing, and education so they can take full advantage of all opportunities.

(16:48) The problem with this human rights concept is people are erroneously given the impression that instead of the means necessary to satisfy their needs, it's satisfying their needs. And so that's not what you want.

(17:05) So human rights, if you have the means necessary to satisfy your basic needs, that means you get to pick and choose how you want to satisfy your basic needs, like what kind of food you want to eat, or what kind of housing you want to have, or what kind of education you want to have.

(17:19) But when society steps in and satisfies those basic needs, you no longer have control. Someone else is deciding what you eat, someone else is deciding where you live and how you live, and someone else is deciding what you need to know, which is why we're here today, so that you can know something that maybe society has decided you don't need to know.

(17:36) So this whole idea of guaranteeing human rights then, if you read it carefully, is a manifesto for a totalitarian state and total ownership of the individual. And so that's absolutely not what you want.

(17:57) And so human rights, as defined in this scenario, does not exist. In other words, human rights guarantees people the means necessary to satisfy their basic needs, such as food, housing, and education. That's just the means. But that's not what that is being interpreted as today.

(18:17) What's happening today is the government is saying, we will provide food, and we will determine what you are eating, we will provide housing, we will determine how you are living, and we will provide education, and we will determine what you do and don't have access to.

(18:33) And so that is a totally different scenario. And so it says, so they can take full advantage of all opportunities. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't want to take full advantage of all opportunities. No, no, no. I want to decide. I'll do this and not that, and this and not that.

(18:52) So again, what you've done is you've eliminated personal choice totally. And since different people are different, you might want something different from what the person sitting next to you wants.

(19:04) And so this whole idea of guaranteeing something by society providing the food, the housing, and the education eliminates the ability of each individual to exercise their preferences and achieve satisfaction according to their preferences. This is very important in healthcare because at different stages of your life, you might want different things, have different health goals.

(19:30) The reality, what's the reality? Here's the reality. The reality is the percent of uninsured Americans is at an all-time low, 9% as of 2016. Health insurance is at an all-time high, yet life expectancy is declining, declining. So I say the number of deaths.

(19:59) The number of deaths can be going up just because maybe the percent of the population over 90 is higher, but that's not what's happening. What's happening is people are dying at younger and younger ages. So life expectancy is actually declining, even though health insurance coverage, if we can equate that with access to healthcare, is going up.

(20:26) Now the other thing that was mentioned is what about access to healthcare? So the people in the United States with the least access to healthcare are the Hispanics, and they have the longest life expectancy at 81.9 years. That's pretty good.

(20:45) White Americans who are not Hispanic have the highest access to healthcare, and their life expectancy is 78.7 years, right under the Hispanics. The Blacks, is it Blacks who are not Hispanic, have the lowest life expectancy of 75.1 years, and they have more access to healthcare than Hispanics do.

(21:09) So there's absolutely no correlation between access to healthcare and life expectancy. If anything, it would be an inverse correlation.

(21:17) Now, so this is one glaring example where less access to healthcare creates longer life expectancy, and these Hispanics are not laying around in nursing homes. They're actually living independently in private homes, pretty good quality of life until 81.9 years. Here's another glaring example in the United States, and that is, why is the life expectancy in the United States going down? Why? I took a look at that.

(21:50) Why is life expectancy falling? Life expectancy is falling because, many of you have heard about it, the heroin epidemic, people are dying from overdoses in heroin. I said, oh my God, that's just terrible. But wait, you have to ask yourself, I did anyway, where's the heroin coming from? What is it about the heroin that's more deadly?

(22:16) And how are they getting hooked on heroin anyway? Because when I was in medical school, which was 1979 to 83, there was practically no heroin on the streets. And in four years of medical school, medical school located in the middle of an inner city neighborhood, high drug use, we might have had one person come to the emergency room with a heroin overdose, one, and that person lived.

(22:47) So how is it now that there's heroin everywhere and people are hooked on it? So I looked this up. I checked it out. It turns out that 80% of the people who are hooked on heroin got hooked via narcotic prescriptions from their doctor. In other words, had they never had access to healthcare, they would not have been on heroin and they'd be alive today.

(23:21) But wait, this one little thing, or big thing, the heroin epidemic is in itself completely responsible for the decline in life expectancy. In other words, not to put too fine a point on it, but access to healthcare is the cause of decreased life expectancy in the United States.

(23:43) And so I talk to people all the time. I ask them, if they'd been to a doctor, I ask them, well, did you get a prescription for a narcotic? I am shocked. And how many times they say, yes, the doctor offered me narcotics. And sometimes they accepted them and sometimes they didn't.

(24:01) But the narcotics death epidemic and lower life expectancy in the United States is totally from middle-aged white people who have access to healthcare who are dying as a consequence of that access.

(24:16) Now, the life expectancy has declined from 78.84 to 78.69. That does not sound like a big decline, but when you figure this decline is totally due to people dropping dead at the age of 40 to 54, then it's actually an underestimate of the life expectancy decline.

(24:45) And we're going to see this keep going down just because as the people keep moving forward, that's going to correct. And if the deaths from heroin continue, then the life expectancy will actually tumble.

(25:01) Now, I'd just like to point out, there has never been a cause and effect relationship between access to healthcare and health. Because health is a personal improvement project. It's what you do. It's got nothing to do with what someone else is doing.

(25:27) So someone else can't make you healthy unless they're the one feeding you. And they can't make you sick unless they're the ones feeding you, pretty much. So addressing illness once it happens does not appear to extend life expectancy. And that's because health is not the absence of disease.

(25:59) So you can't get healthy by waiting until you get sick and then treating it. You can't do it. You can't do it. And that's the total premise of the health industrial complex. That's the whole premise of the industry is we're going to intervene when you become sick and we're going to fix it, whatever it is. That's a total failing proposition.

(26:18) So what the medical industrial complex has said is, wait, wait, we're going to get into prevention. We're going to give you drugs to prevent diseases that you don't have. This is where we have the hypertension medicines to treat hypertension, which is a risk factor, not a disease. It's a risk factor for a heart attack.

(26:38) And this is where they get into giving cholesterol pills to lower the cholesterol. None of these have been a success. Every prevention move by the medical industrial complex has been a resounding flop. A lot of people talk about vaccines. I've done a lot of shows on that. But long story short, we don't even need to consider the harm of vaccines.

(27:02) Just dismiss that. Let's not even say that they're harmful. The question is, are they helpful? The answer is there is no evidence of that either. You read the package insert. It tells you there is no evidence that this vaccine prevents disease. So, and even with polio, the only cases of polio in the United States in the past 40 years have been from the vaccine.

(27:27) So every attempt the medical industrial complex has made to get involved in the area of prevention has been a flop. So what is a person to do?

(27:47) Well, I think in my mind, the evidence is actually overwhelming. It's overwhelming that access to healthcare is damaging. If we look at the narcotics epidemic, which is 80% of it is totally created, manufactured by access to healthcare.

(28:12) And it has been so devastating that it has actually lowered life expectancy overall. The next thing is we have the healthiest people in the population, longest lived, Hispanics have the least amount of access to healthcare. So what would I say?

(28:29) Equal rights in the area of access to healthcare is certainly not desirable. I think anyone who cannot afford to pay for healthcare should not have it. If all you can afford to pay in healthcare is 5 cents, you should get 5 cents worth of healthcare.

(28:48) You will live a lot longer and you'll be a lot healthier. And I would say even go a little further than that. Let's say you have $10,000 you could spend. Maybe you shouldn't spend it on healthcare. Maybe you should still only spend 5 cents. I think the less you spend, the healthier you'll be.

(29:03) Personally, I have spent on healthcare in the past 11 years that will be seeing a doctor or getting a test done, $35. I had to get a $35 test for a doctor to sign a piece of paper saying I could do something. I forget what it was. That was it. So really, the closer you can get to zero on your healthcare expenditures, the healthier you can be. I say be like a Hispanic.

(29:35) Now, the Hispanic paradox, as you can see, 78.7% is your life expectancy if you have access to healthcare and 81.9% if you don't. So it's a three-year difference. These people are living three years longer without healthcare than people who have healthcare.

(29:58) That difference used to be seven years. So obviously, Hispanics are apparently getting more access to healthcare and that gap is narrowing and we're seeing it in the shorter life expectancy of Hispanics. So it's really compelling. I mean, really compelling.

(30:12) So when people ask me questions like, well, what should I do instead of taking this drug? Why are you even considering that as an option? I mean, it's like, what? It's like saying, I want to get a knife and slit my wrist. What should I do instead? Why don't you just leave the knife alone? Why don't we just say, just put the knife down?

(30:27) So many people just really underestimate the amount of benefit to themselves if they just let go of healthcare. And many people overestimate or I should say, they underestimate the harm when they receive healthcare and overestimate the benefit when they receive healthcare. And that's unfortunate.

(31:01) But I say, just organize your life so you don't even have the opportunity to receive healthcare. I mean, I've been a little extreme about it. Yeah, I live in the jungle on a road that an ambulance could not possibly travel. I don't have health insurance.

(31:21) I've let all my friends know that if they think I'm going to die, they should just maybe put a warm blanket over me, offer me a glass of water, kind of leave it at that. Maybe I'll make it, maybe I won't. So a lot of people aren't there yet. I get that, I get that.

(31:37) But I think there are steps along the way that you can take. Number one is do not feel that health insurance is in your best interest or that even healthcare is in your best interest or that there's anything caring about healthcare or there's anything healthy about healthcare.

(31:54) It just happens to be called healthcare. It's not healthy and nobody cares. So once you realize it's simply called healthcare, just like this microphone is called maybe gray, it doesn't have any meaning. It's just a word. It's just a label. It's not a substitute for caring.

(32:19) And if the government really cared about you, they would close all the hospitals. I mean, that's how bad the statistics are. And they would stop issuing licenses to doctors. That's if they cared, but they don't. There's no caring here. So that's okay. That doesn't mean that you can't care. You can care about you.

(32:46) So what should you do? I would take whatever step you feel comfortable with. Maybe you could drop your health insurance and allocate that money for a vacation or spend it where it counts. Fix something about your house that would make it healthier. Fix the air exchange. Fix the ventilation. Get rid of lead paint or whatever. Whatever improvement in your house might make it better.

(33:16) Maybe improve your water quality. Get a reverse osmosis filter. This is what the money you save from not having health insurance. Because you can be as healthy as you want. You go to the doctor, it will not go well. So take the health insurance, whatever you're spending on it, and allocate it someplace else.

(33:37) So we know from research and studies, endless, nothing's changed. From last time I researched it, well, when I first researched it, rather, in the 70s, improved quality of housing improves your health. So if you can have a comfortable indoor temperature year-round, whatever you have to do to arrange that, that's going to improve your health.

(34:02) If you can arrange your house so you're not inhaling dangerous fumes, that's going to help. If you can improve your food quality, a lot of people say eat organic. And I used to say eat organic, but now I say grow your own. So grow your own. And there are tons of indoor growth systems where you can grow lettuce, you can grow herbs, all kinds of stuff.

(34:23) And most people are spending between $6,000 and $20,000 a year on health insurance. You can get a very nice growth system for less than that. And take a look at what you're buying from the grocery store and grow that on your own. Separate yourself from the grocery store.

(34:45) Now I live in a Third World country, and people have chickens running all around everywhere.

(34:51) And so people literally raise their own meat, they raise their own chickens. I was walking down my road the other day, and literally somebody had cows tied to a tree by the side of the road.

(35:08) And the cows were just grazing, attached to the little tether, and they would sit down in the middle of the road when they wanted to rest. I guess the cars just drove around them. And at some point, somebody who owns those cows, hopefully, is going to harvest them.

(35:26) But people raise their own meat, or whatever that is. Or in a First World country, what the heck, you can get a little hydroponic system for your living room, where you have fish swimming in the bottom, and they poop, feeding the plants that are above the fish. And your little cycle, and sometimes you can eat fish, sometimes you can eat plants with your fish.

(35:51) So there are ways to do this. But what you need to do is get control of your food supply. The organic label, the grass-fed label, they've all become pretty much meaningless. But the good news is, for less than what you're spending on health insurance, you can actually create an independent food supply.

(36:07) Now for those of you who are younger, and you can't even afford health insurance, no problem. Count yourself lucky. You don't need to have the discipline. You can just say, hey, I can't afford it. I'm not going to bother with it. And it'll work out like just major awesome.

(36:25) Now I also do have a monthly course, which is Heal at Home, where I teach you how to handle any type of emergency, and how to keep yourself healthy. And you can find out about that at vitalitycapsules.com forward slash heal at home.

(36:50) Now I would also like to say, people need to reallocate their attitude. So get rid of your envy, your greed, desire for social status. Or at least if you can't get rid of them, do not consider access to healthcare as a way to satisfy your need, or satisfy envious feelings, satisfy feelings of greed, or satisfy a desire for social status.

(37:09) Because it actually does the exact opposite. And you should notice that when you enter a doctor's office, your social status goes down to just about zero. The doctor treats you like a child, which legally speaking, you are.

(37:18) As far as greed goes, the healthcare system sucks the money out of you. It does not give money to you. So it will not satisfy any need for greed.

(37:34) As far as envy, what happens with the healthcare system and a healthcare encounter is at least humiliation is not outright to solve. You're asked to take off your clothes and be naked in front of some stranger, and allow them to poke their finger or instruments into every hole that you own. It's a pretty humiliating experience, not something to envy.

(37:59) So the marketing is that you should desire healthcare because other people, more important and rich than you, have it. So get rid of that notion. So you need to reprogram your brain to understand that healthcare is an industry like casinos.

(38:15) Now casinos just happen to have a negative connotation. Healthcare just happens to have a positive connotation. However, healthcare has destroyed more people economically than casinos have. It's dangerous. So you cannot satisfy your envy by consuming healthcare. You cannot satisfy your greed by consuming healthcare because healthcare will consume you, and it's designed to do that.

(38:43) And your social status, as soon as you enter into the presence of a healthcare professional, your social status goes to zero. So that's the first thing is in your own mind, you have to reframe healthcare more in line with what it truly is.

(39:03) If I say, oh, Dr. Daniels, how can you say that? Oh, it's so casual, so flippant. What about the latest technological breakthrough? Yeah. So this comes from really 30 years in the industry of experience, from actually going to medical school, passing my board certification exams, being personally the victim of four unnecessary surgeries, surgeries that were presented to me at the time as life-saving and urgent and needed to be done. So now I just say no.

(39:37) In fact, I don't even put myself in a position to say no. I stay that far away because I realized after receiving four surgical interventions that were totally not beneficial to my health, but at the same time, all of them were consistent with the standard of care. Not one of those doctors did anything that was considered to be medically unnecessary.

(40:04) So given the circumstances, given blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, everything that happened was medically necessary. However, in retrospect, when I look back, I realized, oh, that wasn't necessary at all. I had abdominal surgery for an obstruction, a bowel obstruction.

(40:17) Opened me up and said, oh, there's no obstruction here. Oh, well, they just sewed you back up. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Take that appendix while we're there. Okay, good. Sewed you back up. So this surgery was totally unnecessary. Then I had a C-section. We know that story. Totally unnecessary, as most of them are. But then, of course, there's a complication of the C-section, which required another surgery. Yeah.

(40:52) Then, before that, there was the infertility surgery. And with what I know now, my infertility could have been easily reversed with a dietary change and a little bit of cleansing. But at the time, it appeared to be that that was the only option.

(41:09) And I say appeared to be because, of course, it was not the only option. I could have just chosen to do nothing. That's always an option. And people don't ever think of the option of doing nothing. So if I had done nothing when the C-section was recommended, I would have just had a healthy baby.

(41:30) And if I chose to do nothing when I was presented with the bowel obstruction diagnosis, it would have gone away on its own in four or five days. I had basically a tummy ache. But this is healthcare. And my real problem was, unlike the video, was that I did have too much money. I did have too much healthcare.

(41:52) And so whenever a recommendation was made, I had the means to act on it, to implement it. And so with the situation, the fear tactics, and the lack of sophistication on my part, I was just a victim. Hopefully, that will not happen to you. Fortunately, the healthcare system is wrong 99.9% of the time. So simply setting your consent meter to no consent usually solves the problem.

(42:27) But let's just say you'd like to go a little further than that, like some real prevention. Most of the medical problems are caused by dehydration, really dehydration. And so if you just drink enough water, I said water, I didn't say coffee, I didn't say tea, I didn't say juice, I said water.

(42:52) Yeah. So if you drink enough water, then you won't have any of these problems. Yeah. And so for example, the C-section was caused by the doctor saying, okay, you're in labor, nothing to drink. We're going to give you what you need by IV. And of course, they've even done studies now showing they never give ladies enough by IV.

(43:10) And before you know it, you have a C-section situation precipitated just by dehydration created by the doctors. The so-called bowel obstruction. Had I not eaten fried eggplant and just drank more water, never would have happened. So simple thing, just drink water.

(43:29) And you can just take your body weight in pounds, divide it by two, and that's the number of ounces that you should drink. That's quick math there. Now, let's say you don't want to do that. What you could do is still do that little calculation. But if you feel a little bit not quite right, then you can start drinking water.

(43:53) And whatever the not quite right is, usually will go away. So what you need to do is realize it's not that complicated. Illiterate people with no education lived into their nineties with no healthcare. I know my grandparents, sharecroppers, no education. Grandpa died at about 100 and grandma died at 98. Yes.

(44:32) And this happens all around the world. So it should be embarrassing that in the United States, the best we could do is a life expectancy of 78.7 with healthcare. That's a lot of pain, suffering, and slicing.

(44:51) Now, you know, that would bring us to questions, but we didn't take our turpentine today. So let's do that right now. Now turpentine was the backbone, even the foundation of medicine. So this is our turpentine bottle. This is a little squeegee. You can see the level of turpentine up there. I squeeze it down until it's right there at the neck. That's 2.5 CCs, half a teaspoon. That's my favorite amount for me.

(45:32) Then we have sugar. I live in the tropics. So even though it's white granulated sugar, it clumps. And we're just going to squish that right there. Yep. You can see how it turns a little bit gray there. Yep. We have a glass of water. Yay, water. That went down pretty easy.

(46:00) Then we have Shilajit black tar. Yay. Whoa. Again, because it's the tropics, this is pretty loose tar. But if you live in a colder climate area, it can be pretty stiff. All right. So there we go. Take a little bit here.

(46:36) All you need is 200 milligrams. And so that's about 200 milligrams. And our water, boom, put it in our water. And hopefully I'll get around to drinking this at the end of the questions, or whatever point in the middle where I can see it's dissolved. A lot of people will take Shilajit.

(47:06) What is Shilajit? Shilajit is trace minerals. And I take these because it is the richest, in other words, has the greatest spectrum of trace minerals in it, of any trace mineral source on the planet. So a lot of people say, what about fulvic minerals? These are fulvic minerals, but they have a broader spectrum of trace minerals than the fulvic minerals out of Utah, which are the ones generally sold in the United States. And this is from Russia.

(47:27) Why do I take these? I take these because there are not enough trace minerals found in the food, number one. But number two, I drink distilled water. And so distilled water can leach trace minerals out, reverse osmosis water as well. And so I just supplement with these. It works out really well.

(47:56) Okay. Now we're going to do questions. Let's see what we got here. All right. So if you have a question that can't be handled in a hundred words or less, you probably need an appointment.

(48:11) You can get appointments at vitalitycapsules.com forward slash appointment. All right. So Carl has burning toes. He wants to know what he can do about these burning toes. We can cut right to chase on this one.

(48:21) So Carl, the best way to get rid of burning toes is to just take your feet and soak them in one quart of castor oil. Usually one quart is enough, but I recommend a bread pan because that's closest to your feet and you need the lowest amount of castor oil to get the job done. So put each foot in a bread pan and you want to pour in enough castor oil to cover the top of your foot. Let it sit there for an hour or two. It'll pull the pain right out of your toes.

(49:02) So Chad says, Dr. Daniels, what is the address for your chat, your chat room? It's healing with drdaniels.chattango.com. That's it. Okay.

(49:22) Xenomay. I've been using castor oil for my pain. It is very effective. Also makes the rest of my skin very healthy. I would never have thought about it without your suggestion. Thank you very much.

(49:37) Oh wait. I've also ordered chlorella for collagen. Chlorella will not make collagen. There's no collagen in chlorella, so don't do that. So she says,

(49:52) Would you consider other platforms like BitChute, JoshWho TV, or Brighteon? Yes, I will. I will look at those. Thank you. So that I can listen to your great talks. Yes, I will do that.

(50:13) Always looking for new platforms. People have any suggestions, please let me know. Because I think actually this knowledge is very important. And the more platforms it's on, the more it will live on and people can refer to it.

(50:27) A lot of you listening to what I say, I'll say that sounds a bit extreme, but after a bit of living, you'll say, Hmm, you know what? Maybe she had a point because I did not acquire these positions or opinions or feelings out the gate. I didn't feel this way at age five, 10, 20, or even 30. This is through experience, hoping, hoping, hoping, hoping that there was some good to be found in medical industrial complex. And every time I trusted, being let down.

(51:08) Okay. So Tanya says, I recently discovered you and I've been watching, binge-watching your shows, four shows per day. I cannot stop. And I share them with everyone. Thank you very much, Tanya.

(51:14) I have a few questions I hope you can address in your future shows. First of all, lung nodule. Now she gives like five paragraphs, but all we need to know is it's a lung nodule, half a centimeter in diameter. Answer is it's harmless. Ignore it. Even her doctor said, well, we could do a CT scan every year, but that'd be optional. In other words, the doctor said, well, I could make some money off it if you want to help me with my budget, budgetary needs, but quite frankly, as far as your healthcare goes, it's not a problem.

(51:47) Okay. The answer about the nodule is do nothing. Okay. Mother, her mother has an issue. What is mom's issue? All right. So mom has an adrenal adenoma on her adrenal glands, two on each kidney and they monitor her once a year. Stop right now. Anything that requires monitoring once a year should be ignored. That's it. Ignore it. Okay.

(52:39) But if she doesn't want to ignore it, can turpentine help? It will not hurt. And she should go to vitalitycapsules.com and get her free report, the Candida Cleaner Report. Grandma says, what can you advise me to improve heart failure? That's easy.

(53:02) So I came home from work one day from my office. I was late, 6:30 or seven o'clock in the evening, wintertime, Syracuse, New York. It was dark outside. I sat down on the couch and there's a knock on the door. I answer the door and it's my friend, Debbie. We're exactly the same age at the same birthday, grew up on the same street, four doors down.

(53:22) And she told me that her father's in the hospital and they're trying to kill him. I said, well, sounds bright. So what can I do? I want you to go save him. I said, not tonight. If he's alive in the morning, I will save him in the morning, not promising anything, but I will be there in the morning. I mean, not promising results, but I'll be there in the morning.

(53:44) So I went there and showed up. He had congestive heart failure, cardiac output of 10%. And they had unhooked him from everything. We're waiting for him to die. And he had 40 pounds of water on him. And he was totally delirious. He did not recognize anyone.

(54:00) Every time his heart beat, his head would bob. And it's because of all swollen foot. So just by changing his diet, four days later, he was walking around, no oxygen, no heart meds, demanding his keys and wanting to know what was going on.

(54:18) So I'll tell you just what I told him. No hospital water, no hospital foods, check your blood pressure frequently, and even your doctor will stop your medicines as needed. But this is going to happen quickly, very quickly. So go to vitalitycapsules.com, download the report to Candida Cleaner. And that diet is the same diet I put that guy on.

(54:48) And as far as supplements, he was in the hospital, so I couldn't give him much. I think they gave him a vitamin E capsule, 400 I use. That's it. That is it.

(55:04) And of course, if you need more direction than that, you can make an appointment at vitalitycapsules.com forward slash appointment. Lorraine says, my mother is 85 years old and had a stroke two days ago.

(55:17) All right, so let's talk about why she had the stroke. So questions, why did your mother have a stroke two days ago and not two weeks ago, right? That's a question. I would ask these questions in medical school and they would say, medicine does not answer these questions.

(55:35) Those are questions, spiritual questions better answered by a minister or something like that. Those are questions we don't concern ourselves with. I would say I'm not a minister, but that's not true. I'm an ordained minister. But I can tell you why she had the stroke two days ago. And knowing that you can go forward, understand how to get rid of, clear the stroke and make sure she does not have another stroke.

(56:05) The cause of stroke is dehydration. That is it. If she'd had an extra glass of water, an hour or two before her stroke, stroke never would have happened. So that's the story of strokes.

(56:20) What can I give her to encourage her healing process? You can start giving her enough water and the body will actually fix itself. So take your 85-year-old mother, put her on a scale, figure out how much she weighs, divide it by two and offer her that amount of water in ounces every day. I say offer. You don't want to force anything on an 85-year-old, but you'll see her get better and turn around very nicely.

(56:53) All right, Frank. Frank says, hi there. I love how you help people with your knowledge. Thank you, Frank. What can I take to grow my hair where it seems to be fighting alopecia and thinning at the top? Frank, it's balding. It's balding. Okay.

(57:07) So what can you do? There's a lot you can do. The first thing is to relax and realize that this is being caused by your dietary habits. Okay. Totally being caused by your lifestyle situation. And if you can make those few changes, then you can reverse the baldness. Yeah.

(57:25) All right. So what's the deal? The first thing you can do is make sure that you're pooping three times a day and you can do that with vitality capsules over at vitalitycapsules.com. So that's the output part. Then there's the input part.

(57:49) Dairy, that would be like milk and heavy cream, causes hair loss. So get that out of your diet. And then you want to add to your diet ham hocks and pig feet. And what that will do is build you new hair follicles. Yeah.

(58:06) And start getting more hair on your head. Now you need to, I don't know what you're drinking these days, but you should drink water. Water is your friend. So if you can drink water, get some ham hocks and pig's feet in your diet, make sure you're pooping three times a day.

(58:22) You don't have to eat them every day. Maybe like three times a week, three days a week would be fine. And then in between you can go, you can just eat vegetables and rice or beans and rice. So what you want to do is you want to get in all the spare parts to fix your hair. And then you want to give your body time to throw away all the stuff it doesn't need.

(58:52) You can think of getting rid of your bald spot as a renovation job. So your body has to actually go in there and take out crap and throw it away. And that's what you need your vegetarian or vegetable days for.

(59:01) Okay. And then let's see, we have a bunch of other questions. Now we can't get to all of our questions because we only have an hour of time here. We do have time for one more question.

(59:06) Angela says, Dr. Daniels, how can you repair the ankle and end the pain without surgery? That I've read often has to be repeated. 61 years old.

(59:24) All right. So what you heard was the surgery is ineffective. It does not work. Okay. So don't even think of the surgery as an option because it doesn't work. You might as well just, I don't know, like I said, go to church and light a candle. That will probably get you more results than the surgery will.

(59:43) And plus the surgery costs money and suffering, debility, recovery period. It's terrible. So the thing to understand is the medical option you've been presented with is not an option related to or relevant to improving your health. Once you got that, you're good.

(59:54) The next thing you can do is you can, in your case, you can just eat pig's feet and the pig's feet contain animal tendons and it will improve and fix your ankle. I would again, eat maybe one pig's foot every other day, three days a week will do you and the rest of the time you can be vegetarian and you will see after about a week that you're going to be able to put more weight on that foot without pain.

(1:00:22) All right. That brings us to pretty much the end of our hour. And I remembered. Yay. So this is the Shilajit. It has dissolved.

(1:00:29) We're going to drink it down. All right. Turpentine and Shilajit. Yay. And I take my vitality capsules earlier in the day with my other supplements, actually with food.

(1:00:47) These, I don't need to, I don't need to take Shilajit or Turpentine with food, but the vitality capsules you do. So I take them with food. All right. Awesome.

(1:00:56) We will see you again next week. And as always, think happens.