FDA Suggested Market Removal; But Wait

(0:00) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and welcome to Healing with Dr. Daniels. This is the Sunday, April 5th show, 2020.

(0:13) It has a nice ring to it. 2020. This will be a new show called 2020. I don't know if it's still around.

(0:20) I think the implication was they told the truth about something.

(0:25) Alright, today's topic is FDA recall, day late, dollar short, and relevance to your immune strengthening program, which is, I think, where our focus should be.

(0:42) However, first, we're going to take our turpentine.

(0:49) We have here a spoon. Important.

(0:53) And we have white sugar. Yes, very important. White sugar. I even labeled it sugar. Yeah.

(1:03) I've upgraded my labeling practices.

(1:08) Now we have to do turpentine.

(1:11) I have a little squeeze thing here.

(1:14) I took my turpentine bottle and labeled it turpentine. I ran out of space there, but what the heck.

(1:23) People can get the idea that it's not rubbing alcohol.

(1:29) Alright, here we go. Got our little pipette here. Squeeze it really tight.

(1:35) Dip it in the bottle.

(1:37) Whoa. Got all the way up to the neck of the dropper.

(1:42) I don't know if you can see that with the neck of the dropper. Yeah. So that it's just right there at the neck.

(1:48) We have our sugar. Bam.

(1:51) So I take half a teaspoon a day on days I get around to it. It usually turns out to be two to four times a week, actually.

(2:00) Alright, and we have agua, water. Down the hatch, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

(2:16) If you want to know more about turpentine, you can go to vitalitycapsules.com and get your free copy of the Candida Cleaner Report. It tells you all about the historic uses of turpentine and how your grandmother probably used it to heal everything.

(2:30) I get emails every day from people who say that they ask the oldest person in their family who's still alive, and that person says, "Oh yeah, we used turpentine for everything."

(2:49) Now, as many of you know, I am a fan of distilled water, purified water. Why challenge the immune system with all the impurities in tap water? You're asking for trouble. So, I drink purified water.

(3:02) So that means I am especially meticulous about taking my trace minerals. Even if you don't drink distilled water, you should be taking trace minerals.

(3:13) This is shilajit. It just happens to be the most potent trace mineral source in the world, and it is made in Russia. You can see the name, Mumio. M-Y-M-U-E-O-O. They're not fussy about spelling like we are in the United States. In

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(0:00) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and welcome to Healing with Dr. Daniels. This is the Sunday, April 5th show, 2020. It has a nice ring to it—2020. This will be a new show called 2020. I don't know if it's still around, but I think the implication was they told the truth about something.

(0:25) Alright, today's topic is FDA recall—day late, dollar short—and its relevance to your immune strengthening program, which is where I think our focus should be. However, before we dive into that, we're going to start with our turpentine routine.

(0:49) I have here a spoon, which is important. And we have white sugar, which is very important. I even labeled it "sugar." I've upgraded my labeling practices. Now, we need our turpentine. I have a little squeeze thing here. I took my turpentine bottle and labeled it "turpentine." I ran out of space there, but what the heck—people can get the idea that it's not rubbing alcohol.

(1:29) Alright, here we go. I’ve got our little pipette here. Squeeze it really tight, dip it in the bottle, and whoa—we’ve got it all the way up to the neck of the dropper. I don’t know if you can see that—it’s right there at the neck. We have our sugar. Bam. So, I take half a teaspoon a day on days I get around to it, which usually turns out to be two to four times a week. Alright, and we have water. Down the hatch—a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

(2:16) If you want to know more about turpentine, you can go to vitalitycapsules.com and get your free copy of the Candida Cleaner Report. It tells you all about the historic uses of turpentine and how your grandmother probably used it to heal everything. I get emails every day from people who say that they asked the oldest person in their family who's still alive, and that person says, "Oh yeah, we used turpentine for everything."

(2:49) Now, as many of you know, I am a fan of distilled water—purified water. Why challenge the immune system with all the impurities in tap water? You're asking for trouble. So, I drink purified water. That means I am especially meticulous about taking my trace minerals. Even if you don't drink distilled water, you should be taking trace minerals.

(3:13) This here is shilajit. It just happens to be the most potent trace mineral source in the world, and it is made in Russia. You can see the name—Mumio. M-Y-M-U-E-O-O. They're not as fussy about spelling as we are in the United States. In fact, I don't even think they have spelling classes. So, Mumio is the name. Here it is—it looks like black tar. It is tough. I’ve worked with it a little bit with a spoon before the show to get together a small little speck.

(3:49) And here is my small little speck on the spoon. You can see it’s a very small amount—more or less 200 milligrams for those of you who have a milligram measuring scale. Now, take it and put it in here. As you can see, it does not readily dissolve. So, we're just going to sit it right here and get back to it later. If I don't get back to it during the show, you can be confident I will be drinking it afterward.

(4:14) That’s our turpentine and shilajit. Next is a Vitality Capsules update. We have located our difficult-to-find ingredient—yay! Our manufacturer has given us a May 1st production date. So, our ship date—cross our fingers, cross our fingers—is May 15th or hopefully sooner. We are on the case and working hard on that.

(4:47) Many of you know we've instituted rigorous testing of every single ingredient. We've added a step where we now have dedicated tasters who taste the samples from different suppliers to make sure it tastes the way it's supposed to for that ingredient. I'm telling you, the results were absolutely shocking. Things that were not supposed to dissolve, dissolved in water. Things that were supposed to remain granular, gelled up. Things that were supposed to be brown were green. And you’re like, wow! So, while this did add an extra step to the testing process, it means now we don't have to send certain samples to the lab because we know it's not the real stuff anyway. That has been a very exciting revelation.

(5:39) And of course, the next update that everyone's been waiting for—the COVID-19 watch. We’re going to talk about this and then get to the FDA drug recall, which is quite relevant to your ambitions to stay healthy.

(6:04) One thing I like to do is stick to official sources that are approved by the powers that be. So, we don't want to go checking into any alternative stuff or any source that the CDC might disagree with. Hey, what the heck? Why not just use the CDC as a source?

(6:41) So, what are people dying of? That's the question. Are people dying of COVID? Is COVID spreading? When is it going to go away? All of these are things that no one can tell for sure, but there are clues. First, I’d like to give you a little background on viruses that was taught in medical school. This is the medical school teaching: A virus is DNA or RNA in an envelope. We'll call it a cell membrane. That’s it—that’s the whole ball of wax. What does that mean? It means it doesn't have the internal equipment to reproduce.

(7:17) So, if you deposit a virus on a surface, that virus cannot sit there and reproduce, have babies and babies and babies, and make 10,000 copies. It just can't happen. You deposit one copy on that surface, that's it—that's all you get, one copy. What this means is the infectivity of viruses is severely limited. Viruses cannot reproduce. By definition, they cannot reproduce outside of the human body. This is what was taught in medical school.

(7:57) The next thing about viruses—they are not motile. There’s no such thing as a virus that's motile. What does that mean? It means the virus can't move—hasn't got legs, hasn't got a flagella, hasn't got wings, can't swim—no fins. It cannot move. So, once a virus is deposited someplace, that’s it, that's where it stays. It's not like a worm that moves around. Viruses, boom. They can’t move, and they cannot reproduce. So that’s what we're taught about viruses.

(8:32) Earlier in medical school, we’re taught about the infectious theory of disease—that you get something, you’re infected with it, and it causes illness. Then we're taught about antibiotics and how we can tell if they work and how we can tell if you're infected.

(8:50) So, how do you know an organism is alive? This was a question, of course, I wondered. And they were very generous in answering it at school: Anything that cannot reproduce is not alive. They didn't put it together and tell us that viruses are dead and they're not alive. They just said, the definition of life is something that can reproduce. Even better, it can move. Move and/or reproduce. When I say move, I mean move under its own volition, under its own power. So, viruses do not have an internal energy production system. They do not have a system of reproduction.

(9:41) Alright, so you can decide for yourself if all this stuff on the internet about viruses being dead and not being able to infect anybody is true or false. I'm not going to draw any conclusions there—I'll leave that to you. Now, we know for a fact that there is total agreement that viruses cannot reproduce outside the human body. Number one. And number two, they cannot move. They don't have the ability to move—it's not possible. That’s why someone has to sneeze in order to spread it. Because you're actually using that person's energy and breath and that person's moisture to propel the virus.

(10:37) So, what this means then is if someone touches a surface with their finger and deposits a virus—maybe it's COVID, maybe it's not, but a virus—that virus can't spread throughout the whole surface like we're seeing in graphic simulated presentations online. Just saying.

(10:53) Now, the other quality of an infestation or disease-causing agent is that it must be present in the infected person in numbers large enough so they can be easily identified and isolated. This is not the case for any viruses, by the way. This is why we have PCR—that's the amplification technology for detecting them—because you can't find them. And healthy people exposed to a sick person must get infected.

(11:46) So, this is not the case with COVID. We have many cases now emerging where you have a couple—they are married, they are living in the same space, sleeping together. One person gets a cough, tests positive for COVID, and the other one does not test positive for COVID. Whether they get a cough or not is irrelevant. The question is, do they get COVID? And the answer is apparently not. So, the question is, what's going on with the epidemic? What's our progress here?

(12:30) In a particular year, there's a large number of deaths from heart disease. So, I took these deaths, multiplied them by four, which is how many people have died from heart disease since January 1st. There will be 161,000 deaths from heart disease in the three months ending March 31st. There have been 9,500 from car accidents. And in 2018, from the flu, during the same period, 8,500. You can find these numbers anywhere online. Just look up "top 10 causes of death." You'll see the causes of heart disease and divide it by four. Bam, 161,000. This is simple math.

(13:00) Now, car accidents have killed 9,500 people in the same time. In the same time in 2018, with the isolation procedures and people not being permitted to drive their cars, we can expect deaths from car accidents to really go down. Now, again, in COVID, the same period of time, deaths from COVID are 4,300. So, deaths from car accidents, deaths from last year's flu, deaths from heart disease—way, way in excess of that.

(13:59) Now, we have a lot of really amazing graphics online, and I think it's important to access the more accurate ones. So, what's an accurate graphic? An accurate graphic is a graphic that talks about what has actually happened, not a projection about the future. Because we are not fortune tellers—we're human, and we don't know the future. And if you want any evidence that humans don't know the future, let's take a look at the flu season projections.

(14:37) On February 10, 2018, Fortune Magazine reported that flu deaths would be 4,000 deaths a week. That's 208,000 deaths in a year, right? That's a lot of deaths. But how many people actually died from the flu in 2018? 34,000. So, off by easily a factor of six to seven. So, we know we can't count on projections—they're generally inaccurate, and if Fortune Magazine, a reputable magazine, is any indication, they’re way inflated.

(15:39) So, let's take a look at the other thing about COVID. COVID is supposedly affecting older people. That would be me. People over 60, older people, they're more likely to die from COVID. I love these COVID graphics about people like me dropping dead. I mean, if you take this stuff to heart, you could really get yourself worked up.

(16:09) So, if we go to the Intelligencer, which is a branch of the New Yorker, they have been following this. They are way cool. What they have done for us is they have taken the deaths from COVID and very nicely broken it down by age.

(16:45) There's these people in the United States over 85, and they are really getting hammered. They are dying from COVID at a rate of 10.5%. That's a lot—that's 10.5%. That’s a higher rate of dropping dead than other people, right, who are getting exposed to, or if you want to say, infected with COVID. And that is true.

(17:01) But the other question to ask, if you want a baseline comparison, is: what are the chances of someone who's 85 plus years old dying in the next year anyway? That’s really what you want to know. Well, for that, there are these people who make a living, money, lots of money, by predicting things. These are called actuaries.

(17:50) Actuaries are people who, using past data, calculate the present immediate probability of things happening. So, other people, insurance companies, can make bets on these probabilities made by the actuaries. If we look at the 80 plus population, their death rate from COVID is 14.8%. The disease's death rate is highest among the elderly. But what we really want to know is, what is the actuarial probability of death for someone who's over 80?

(18:44) And what we found was, what I found, was pretty darn shocking. So, we go to the actuarial tables, and I use the ssa.gov forward slash oact forward slash stats blah blah blah. So, all you have to do is look up actuarial tables. A person's chances of dying, if they're over 80, the median chance of dying is 14.7%. And if they have COVID, their chances of dying are 14.8%.

(19:20) Let me recheck my numbers here. So, your chance of dying if you're over 85 is 14.7%. Just your annual chance of dying. And that’s your chance of dying because you’re alive. You have to come to grips with the fact that one, you're human. Two, you are alive. And three, you're going to die.

(19:50) When you look at an infestation, what you really want to know is, does it increase your chances of dying? That's the real question—over what you had you not had it. So, a 14.8% chance of death compared to a 14.7% chance of death is not a difference. In other words, a person's chances of dying are really about the same if they're elderly, whether they have COVID or whether they do not have COVID. This is important to know.

(20:32) So yes, of course, a person who's 85 and has COVID, tests positive for COVID, has a greater chance of dying than a person who's 60 and tests positive for COVID. But that’s not the comparison. The comparison is, does a person who’s elderly of a certain age with COVID have a greater chance of dying than a person the same age without COVID? That’s the question. And that’s the comparison that will be made.

(21:18) A lot of times when you’re getting information, when someone is analyzing it in a really biased way, let’s say, they just pick a comparison that’s going to create the impression they want to create.

(21:52) This really hit home with me because my brother—I’m 63, which makes him 64. Well, no, he's not going to be 64 for a few weeks here. So, he's 63, we’re both 63, and he has diabetes, he has hypertension, he takes all the drugs the doctors tell him to take. He was talking to me on the phone, and he said, "Well, you know, Jennifer, I’m in an increased risk group, so I’m not going to be traveling." This was a while ago, before the ban on travel showed up. So, you know, he's like really into this. What he doesn’t realize is his risk from being diabetic, being hypertensive is the real threat to his life, not testing positive for COVID.

(22:18) Now, another thing that we have here is this graph—death by age—was done on March 20th. Well, in the COVID epidemic, that’s seriously old news, right? I’m like, whoa, wait a minute, where’s the updated graph? There isn’t one. Why wouldn’t there be an updated graph? There probably isn’t an updated graph because someone else noticed the same thing I noticed, which is, oops, the graph does not support the contention that being positive for COVID increases your chances of death. That was a problem. So, there’s not an updated graph of COVID deaths, death rate versus age. And you can expect that there will not be one. This is not going to happen.

(23:05) Another question is, how long will the epidemic last? First of all, what are the projections and how can we interpret those projections? This is from a financial report site online. This person actually graphs the projections, the data we’ve been given, and what actually happened.

(23:46) So, the below model was considered by many to be the standard. Six days ago, it projected that in New York, there would be 50,000 hospitalizations by April 1st. See the graphic below. 50,000 was the projection. Actual: 10,000. I’m sorry, 12,000. Instead, there are 12,000. It was off by a factor of four in only six days. I can understand a bunch of PhDs being off by 20% in six days. But there are one-fourth the number of hospitalizations they projected. What went wrong? I hope what went wrong is a question a lot of people will ask when this is over.

(24:47) Most of all, what went wrong with almost every single model that predicted exponential growth and millions and millions of deaths by now? The Imperial College, Harvard University, University of Washington, New York Times, and on and on. The answer is straightforward. They all assumed exponential growth. They used sixth-grade math to make predictions rather than take into account that this virus, like every virus in world history, does not have exponential growth.

(25:48) As I mentioned before, what they taught us in medical school—since the virus cannot physically move and it does not contain within it the ability to reproduce—you can’t have exponential growth. Not possible. Because each virus does not have the ability to reproduce in place quickly on-site. Not possible. That’s not the way viruses work.

(26:12) So the question, of course, what are the boundaries to the virus? He has his theories about what the boundaries are, but actually, the boundaries are very much, just like I said, biochemical. He says population, demographics, immune populations, the amount of exposure different groups have to the virus, possible mutations. We don’t really know. Again, he says we don’t really know. He doesn’t know. But again, if you know the basic virology theory, you got an organism that cannot reproduce and cannot move. It is not capable of exponential growth.

(27:03) Now, bacteria, on the other hand, they can reproduce in place. They are capable of exponential growth, bacteria. However, bacteria very quickly outgrow their food supply and die. So they have exponential growth, but it's like a flash and then gone. The only way for sustained growth is to have a reservoir. I covered this in my Ebola talk—a reservoir, which is a non-human place where the infectious agent can reside and multiply, but where humans can regularly come into contact to replenish their contact with the infectious agent. If that's the case, you can have exponential growth. With COVID, there is no such situation.

(27:56) It’s not like there’s a bucket of COVID over there—get your COVID over there. Don’t have that. That’s not what's happening. Like with Legionnaires' disease. These guys were in a hotel. The infectious agent was pumped through the ductwork and flooded over everybody. Poor guys died. They were elderly, but the contact with this infectious agent—it just finished them off. All those Legionnaires' guys died. So you would need that level of mass exposure continually, continually, continually. What happened with Legionnaires' is they all dropped dead, shut the hotel down. And so that was the end of the Legionnaires' outbreak.

(28:37) But to have a sustained outbreak with exponential growth, you need a common source that new people are exposed to in large numbers. Then that particular agent they’re exposed to needs to, once it gets in the body, have the ability to reproduce. This is not the case with the present virus we’re considering.

(29:03) We can see by the growth—this guy's a financial numbers guy. He says there’s one paper I found that takes all this into account. It looks at each country and even each state where the virus hit. It looks at how many times the virus doubled. Then how long it took the second derivative to go negative—notice how long it took for the acceleration of the virus growth to start going down. Then how long it took for the virus to get under control. In other words, the number of cases or deaths starts going down to the point where they quickly become negligible.

(29:57) The paper is by Gerard Telles of USC, titled "How Long Should Social Distancing Last?" He has an excellent graph here. What he says is, it takes two weeks to moderate and 31 days to go away. In China, things started on December 23rd. They first took action on January 23rd, and by February 8th, all clear.

(30:44) Let’s look at Italy. Italy, March 6th, took 17 days to peak and go down. That’s where we are now, March 23rd. It takes about 14 days to get under control and about 21 days for things to clear up. If you look at the United States, let’s take a look at the state of Washington. We have pending results, but we are expecting things to go away somewhere around April 1st. April 1st to 7th is, for the United States, pretty much where we expect things to kind of mysteriously decline and evaporate. He says the curve in every location basically remains the same. So based on prior curves and the data so far and locations that are still pending, they can extrapolate and figure out roughly when a location will hit its peak and when the virus cases will start going down quickly.

(31:59) In Spain, for instance, the peak was forecasted two days ago. And we can see even in Spain, the deaths are going down. There you go. How long the social distancing will continue, I don’t know, can’t say. However, that brings us to today’s topic, which is, da da da, FDA recall.

(32:35) Now the FDA—this may be a shock to you—but they actually don’t recall anything. They just suggest recalls. The FDA calls for market removal of ranitidine. Those of you who haven’t heard of that, you’ve probably heard the more popular name. The brand name is Zantac. This is an H2 blocker for antacids, indigestion, heartburn. Those of you who watched TV in the 70s might remember a famous commercial about Ralph. Ralph! And Ralph says, "Oh, my stomach hurts, I can’t believe I ate the whole thing." And his helpful wife says, "You did, Ralph, you ate the whole thing, Ralph." And of course, then Ralph takes an antacid and feels better.

(33:32) So the H2 blockers are the class of drugs that replaced antacids. And just like Ralph, people can eat stuff that makes them sick and not suffer too much. Here's what the FDA is saying, and then we can look at the evidence and see what's really going on here. The FDA calls for market removal of ranitidine or Zantac. I’m like, oh my God, did they find out that it’s dangerous, that removing the stomach acid is actually compromising people and making them sick? Fat chance. Nope.

(34:08) The issue is a problem with a probable human carcinogen—N-nitrosodimethylamine, NDMA. Contamination in Zantac, commonly known by Zantac, has led the FDA to call for manufacturers of the drug to remove all products, both over-the-counter and prescription forms, from the market. Now, they’re doing this based on probable contamination? Like, we don’t have real contamination; we have probable contamination? Okay, so let's go a little further. That’s the first red flag, alright? Where's the science?

(34:52) The contamination does not stem from manufacturing concern. In other words, hey, it’s not the drug company’s fault. No, no, no, no. But rather, the levels have been found to increase over time, depending on how it’s stored. Hmm. So why can’t you just continue to produce it, but put a sensor in the bottle that detects the moisture and temperature of storage, and if the temperature gets above a certain amount, the strip changes color, and it’s probably not safe to use? This technology does exist, just by the way.

(35:38) The FDA found, through product testing, that the impurity developed over time when the ranitidine was stored above room temperature. So I live in a swamp, right? Like, what is room temperature? Room temperature around here is 100 degrees. So I don’t know what room temperature is. I’m sure they’re talking about something a little less than 100 degrees. It would be nice if they listed the temperature here. Again, we’re vague, vague, vague, vague, vague.

(36:15) Testing has also shown that the older a ranitidine project is, or the longer the length of time since it was manufactured, the greater the level of NDMA. The FDA said in a statement announcing the call for product withdrawal. Again, that can be handled by just an expiration date, right? Figure out, is it six months? Is it a year? Is it five years? What is it? And that’s your expiration date. So expiration date on the bottle, selected based on impurity testing, and a temperature strip—that would solve the problem. But no, they’re calling for a product withdrawal.

(36:48) In addition to products being removed from the market, the FDA is asking consumers to throw away any Zantac products they may have. There are still questions about how the impurity is formed. They don’t know. Over time during storage, said the director of the FDA. For example, what impact does the drug packaging have on the development or the specific formulation have on the development of NDMA? We don’t know. We’re just recommending a recall.

(37:59) But I’ve been through this before, so I can give you a little help at the end of this article. Doctors also stress that the products at the point of manufacture do not have unacceptable levels of this cancer-causing agent. This is a market withdrawal. It is not a recall because technically the products are okay. They meet all their specs, he said. It's only when they are subjected generally to heat stress that they manifest higher levels of this cancer agent. Clearly, we cannot have products on the market if they are stored under conditions consumers might store them under that would become unacceptable. Dr. Woodcock said the FDA is not withdrawing approvals for the products, but manufacturers would need to show the product remains stable under normal storage conditions.

(38:51) So what’s going on here? Once upon a time, 35 years ago, it was found that polio vaccine was the cause of modern-day polio. That’s it. No vaccine, you didn’t get polio. I said, "Oh my God, they need to stop the vaccination for polio. They need to recall the vaccine." They did not recall the vaccine or even suggest stopping its use until the 1990s or sometime in 2000. Why? Because at that point, the company had introduced another polio vaccine that it could replace. The FDA was not going to issue a recall if it was going to reduce sales.

(39:51) So I thought to myself when I saw this pretty flimsy recall, "I wonder if the company has another product in the same therapeutic category and they could just simply easily redirect their marketing to the other product in the same category that is effective or they say is effective against indigestion and ulcers."

(40:07) Being a doctor, I knew that Zantac is an H2 blocker. That’s a therapeutic category. I didn’t know any details about the therapeutic category. The next therapeutic category, which is much more lucrative, is proton pump inhibitors. So the question is, who makes Zantac, and does that same company also make a proton pump inhibitor? We don’t need to name companies—I’m not trying to blackmail anybody. But I’m just saying this is the way the FDA operates. They will not do a recall unless they first check with the company to make sure that there will not be a negative economic impact.

(40:52) Sure enough, the same company makes Prevacid, another proton pump inhibitor, which is the next level of drug. So let's take a look. How much does a month of Zantac cost? Between $24 and $60 a month. But whoa, what about Prevacid? If you just Google it, it's $443 a month. There’s a big price difference. So what company that makes the $443 a month drug and the $24 a month drug would want patients or doctors, for that matter, to prescribe the less expensive drug? You wouldn't. You’d want to just take it off the market. But who wants to be the bad guy?

(41:39) Who wants to be the bad guy and say, "Well, we make this really expensive drug and we don’t want the sales cannibalized by this very inexpensive drug. So we’re going to take this inexpensive drug and just take it off the market. Just bam, gone." No, no, no, no, no. Have the FDA come in and say, "We think that there may be a contaminant. We’re not sure there is, and the company has not made any mistakes, but we’re just going to suggest a recall." And so now the company gets to pass the buck.

(42:29) The Prevacid, the proton pump inhibitor, that sells for $443 a month, that’s if you go to your local pharmacist for it, is the other drug the same company makes. But wait, if you’re bold enough to go online, the same $443 a month drug can be purchased for as little as $100 a month, but that’s still better than $24 a month.

(42:56) So how safe are proton pump inhibitors? Should they even be on the market? Whether you’re a COVID believer or a COVID denier, this is something you might be interested in. Prevacid has been the proton pump inhibitor category. Let's be clear. This is a category of drugs that raises the pH of the stomach. So now parasites that naturally come in the stomach are not neutralized by the stomach acid because it’s not there.

(43:37) They did research on proton pump inhibitors and sure enough, they found that proton pump inhibitors increase pneumonia/pneumonia death by 30%. Well, we have something going on here—respiratory illness. It’s deadly, so they say. We're going to take their word for it. Let's believe it. Then obviously taking a proton pump inhibitor is going to increase your chances of death—let's say tremendously. But we don’t see any call to people to increase the strength of their immune system by stopping their proton pump inhibitors.

(44:29) So if you have asthma, it worsens asthma. They've done those studies. It worsens pneumonia. Just in case you had any use for your kidneys, proton pump inhibitors can lead to kidney failure, cancer, and just decrease immune system function overall and increase susceptibility to infection.

(45:29) Now, we are led to believe that older people are more susceptible to death from respiratory illness, as my uncles would say, "whatchamacallit," than others. But let’s take a look. Go online—you can get graphs of every kind of thing. Appetite for numbers—just really, really great. So they have death by age. But whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. If you look at coronavirus death risk and excess risk, people with pre-existing health conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure—this is what’s really going to get you—heart disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, high blood pressure, and cancer. If you look at the overall death rate from COVID, it’s 0.9%.

(46:36) Anybody know what the overall death rate is in the United States? Average, across the board, death rate in the United States? Just because you’re breathing today, there’s a 0.9% chance you will be dead in one year. No matter what you do, 0.9% of you listening to this show are going to be dead. You’re going to be dead 12 months from now—just count on it. 0.9%—that’s nine per thousand.

(47:01) But wait. If you have cancer, your COVID death rate is 5.6%. I would hazard a guess if you have cancer, your death rate is probably 5.6% per year or even higher. Same with high blood pressure, same with emphysema, diabetes, and heart disease. So it turns out that whether you have COVID or whether you don’t have COVID does not increase your chances of death in any particular category. Your chance of death with or without COVID is the same, but your chance of death if you're in that category is higher because you’re in that category. There’s no causal effect between COVID and the death, and there’s not even an association.

(47:52) So, in other words, if let’s say cancer deaths were 5.6% in a COVID-negative person, but 10% in a COVID-positive person, at that point, we’ve only proved an association, not cause and effect. So what I’m saying is the data is so weak, it doesn’t even prove the association of being COVID positive with increased risk of death from any cause. Just saying. I won’t say any cause—any cause or all-cause. All-cause—that’s the difference. It’s a nuance, but it’s a difference.

(48:56) Your all-cause mortality at the end of the year is the same whether you have COVID or whether you don’t have COVID. Your all-cause mortality is going to differ either if you have diabetes or if you have heart disease or if you have chronic respiratory disease. But within that category, your probability of death is not in any way increased or enhanced because you have a positive COVID test. Let’s be scientific.

(49:56) Now what’s happening, again, if you go on the internet and people are saying, "Oh my God, I had COVID." This is your regular everyday person on the street. And you listen to, watch the video. I’ve watched a few of them. I’m going to stop because I need to move on. They confess that they were not tested, that they called their doctor who told them that if they had a cold, it was probably COVID, and to self-quarantine, blah blah blah. It’s like, whoa, whoa. You don’t even know what you had. You’re not even COVID positive.

(50:52) Alright, that takes us to questions. Let’s take a look at questions.

(51:08) Someone asks: "I'm interested in knowing about any natural therapies and advice for a friend that has recently been diagnosed with stage four sarcoma cancer. She is 36 and wanting to do something natural." The first thing she needs to do is investigate her particular sarcoma cancer and investigate her particular probability of dying from it. If her chances of dying from her cancer at the end of the year is less than 1%, then basically she has been given a label of being healthy, and she should simply go on with her life. The first thing, whenever you receive a cancer diagnosis, is to look at the survival rate for your particular cancer on an annual basis—like what is it year by year. Beyond that, she could schedule an appointment, and we could sort the whole thing out in terms of a diet and other risk factors and how to modify them. But that’s the first thing to do, and many people skip that step.

(52:22) Another question: "How can I fully restore my endocrine system? To fight fatigue over several years, I overdid my dark chocolate, theobromine, as a stimulant. But I eventually got weird side effects like fatigue and overly strong detox, and it put me into diabetic ketoacidosis." Well, of course, the question is, is this person diabetic? We don’t know. We can just guess. So they’re worried about the insulin system, the adrenal system, and thyroid.

(52:53) The key thing here is this person has had fatigue for several years. Fatigue for several years can only be like three things: one, not enough water—so increase your water intake; two, not enough detoxing—let’s just say not enough bowel movements. If you're getting three bowel movements a day, you’re really good. Don’t go over that. So she says strong detoxing. Let’s just guess that she’s already got the bowel movements under control. Maybe she’s even hydrated. The third reason for fatigue is malnutrition. So this person is severely, severely malnourished.

(53:33) Stimulants like theobromine, basically caffeine, deplete the adrenal glands. They get the adrenal glands to release more energy-producing adrenal hormones than what the body thinks is prudent or advisable. She needs to increase her adrenal support. The adrenals then feed the thyroid and the other hormone systems, even the insulin system. Many people, let’s say this person is diabetic, find that their diabetes control vastly improves once they restore their adrenals. I would start there. How do you do that? The simplest, easiest way, assuming this person lives in the United States, is what’s most available in the United States would be chicken liver. Chicken liver. And again, salt, pepper, liver, onions. That’s the recipe. However, you cannot eat liver by itself. You have to eat it with carbs, with a cooked vegetable, and with a raw vegetable. So it’s a whole dish. If you look at the plate, no more than one-third of it should be liver. The rest needs to be rice and cooked vegetables. Then you can have the salad on the side.

(54:52) Another person asks: "I heard a man testify today that he contracted COVID-19 three weeks ago." Okay, so let’s be clear. You have never met this person. He testified, meaning he said something in front of, I don’t know, some official people. Maybe it was a court or something or some government committee. So you really don’t know much. But let’s just say he does have COVID-19 and he’s had it for three weeks. We’re going to guess, given the benefit of the doubt, that he actually had a test and the test was positive for COVID-19. The chance that there is actually any COVID DNA in his system is 20%, just saying. But let’s again give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s one of those lucky or unlucky few who actually has COVID-19 in his system.

(55:44) His wife has not been affected. There are a couple of things going on here: one, he’s got a bad marriage—they're just not getting that close. That's possible. Number two, what he has is not contagious—you can’t get it by casual or even close contact. So that’s what you have to first understand. So I think it’s something else—cough and nasal congestion. Yes, I think it’s the heating system in his house. It’s winter up there. So put a pan of water near the heating system to humidify the air and drink more water. It sounds like that's pretty much the extent of what he has.

(56:34) Another question: "What causes LP and how it can be treated?" Okay, I am 63 years old. So LP is a long-playing record. That’s what that is. It can be treated by not buying a turntable. Just the end of that one.

(56:48) Another question: "What is the best thing to do for gallbladder health? I take Vitality Capsules and drink distilled water." Well, you're pretty much doing it, really. Stay hydrated and have more bowel movements. When you have bowel movements, that decompresses the gallbladder system and decongests it so that the bile can flow. So that's pretty much it.

(57:17) Another person asks: "I had one gallbladder attack and do not want to have one again. I use castor oil packs and went to a bland diet." Continue using your castor oil packs to dissolve the crud, the sludge, and the junk in your gallbladder area. I would continue the castor oil packs over your gallbladder area and your liver area. You've had a gallbladder attack, so you know exactly where your gallbladder is—put the castor oil pack there. What's going to happen is it's going to dissolve the sludge and empty out your gallbladder.

(58:01) Another question: "Are certain foods that can help move the bile out without enemas?" I don't think I would resort to enemas. I would work with the bowel movements, honestly.

(58:34) Another question: "Does turpentine prevent COVID-19 or coronavirus?" Again, coronavirus, as it is now presented to the public, is imaginary. There’s actually no evidence that it A) exists or B) causes any illness. So that's the first thing to understand. In general, does turpentine improve the immune system? Absolutely.

(59:02) Another question: "My dad presses my right upper abdomen. It's a bubble-like thing. He's not sure what it could be." A bubble-like thing can only be one thing—it's gas in the intestines. That's the only place where there's air. If the air was anywhere else, besides in the intestines, the pain would be out of this world unbearable. So if you have a bubble that's there when you press and it seems to move around, then it is your intestines. You need to have more bowel movements, and that's pretty much the size of it.

(59:55) Another question: "What is the best thing to do for gallbladder health?" I love your work. So grateful for everything I've learned from you. What do you think about the view of Mr. Vanderplant?" Mr. Vanderplant is a natural healer. He died, jumped from a balcony, fell from a balcony, was pushed from a balcony by a jealous girlfriend—whatever. Anyway, he died. He's deceased. He was a proponent of raw food, especially raw meats. I am totally not in favor of raw meats. Why am I not in favor of raw meats? Raw meats, like turpentine, were ingested historically in a cultural context. Basically, only two ways: one, kill the animal on the spot and eat it while it was still warm. That's one way of eating raw meat. For most of us, that particular method is not available. The next way of eating raw meats, again, these are in cultures that have eaten them historically, is they slice the raw meat super, super thin and soak it in some type of anti-parasite agent—let’s say vinegar—which kills the parasites, or they’ll soak it in milk, which draws the parasites out, rinse it off, and then eat it. So, what I don't agree with, with Mr. Vanderplant, is he advocates just eating raw meat, totally outside of the historical context. If that makes any sense to you.

(1:00:52) Another question: "What do you think about the view of Vanderplant?" This theory—Vanderplant believes parasites are actually beneficial. And that's true. That's absolutely true. So here's the deal: as human beings, we have this very small brain. So, some parasites we call good bacteria, other parasites we call bad bacteria, and other parasites we call, well, parasites. For marketing purposes, you don't want to put them all in the same category and say that an organism in your body, at one point, can be beneficial and at another point, can be harmful. No, that's not something people are ready to appreciate. Because that's complicated, right? Because now you have to say, well, when is it helpful and when is it harmful? And most people are not ready for that conversation. Or, you get back to the whole Chinese proverb, "Everything in moderation." Anything in moderation is not a problem. Things are only a problem when out of moderation. Then you have the whole judgment thing, "Well, what's moderation?"

(1:02:52) Another question: "How do I get rid of small spots that have not changed in size on my eyelids, which I think must be warts? I have one larger one on my left lower eyelash line that has got a bit bigger. I got them from someone that had them in the same place on their eyelids. Unfortunately, at the time, I was ignorant to them spreading this to me from sharing stuff with them that they had not properly cleaned." Somebody I spoke to said it's parasites. I would start gently and just simply put castor oil on your eyelids and your eyes at night—just flood that area. I would do that and be patient. I would do that for at least a month. Usually, what happens with that is they will actually just fall off your eyelids. At the same time, you need to poop three times a day. You can check out Vitality Capsules at vitalitycapsules.com to give yourself a little bit of help with that.

(1:03:33) Okay, that brings us to the end of today's show. I hope that you will find inspiration and encouragement to know that it's still a wonderful world, you're healthier than you think, and it's all going to turn out fine. Alright, we'll see you next week. Until then, visit vitalitycapsules.com and of course, think happens.