Hey Good Lookin! Whatcha Cookin'

(0:00) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and you are listening to Healing with Dr. Daniels. This is the February 14th, 2021 edition, and today's topic is: "Hey, good looking, what you got cooking?" So today, I am going to explore the opening line of a popular love song and show you what you can create so you can make every day feel like Valentine's Day, filled with health, happiness, friendship, and love. As always, think happens.

(0:38) But first, a quick update on Mom. Mom is doing so well that they are kicking her out of hospice. Yes, she went from comatose to out of hospice just from a grandkid showing up and cooking for her. There we go.

(1:00) Then, of course, we're going to take our turpentine. Yes, and as always, when you have powerful things in the house, you must label them. So this is turpentine—yes, so don't let anyone teach you otherwise about labeling your stuff. Anyone looking at this will know that this is not soda pop. There you go, that’s all you need, so you really need to label your stuff and take that seriously.

(1:28) On more than one occasion, I have made something only to look at the bottle and say, "What the heck is that?" Don’t let it happen to you. Okay, then we have sugar. Yay! White sugar. I even label the sugar. Yes, I do. Why? There are a lot of things that are white in the house—it could be salt, could be sugar, could be vitamin C. I don’t know. Well, actually, I do because I label it, and you should too.

(1:57) Okay, then we have our little pipette. Yay! My dose that I like is half a teaspoon, and I take this every single day. Honestly, I try to; some days I miss, so usually about five times a week. There we go. We’re going to squish it on this, and just in case I didn’t say so, this is a regular teaspoon, not a dessert spoon. There we go.

(2:34) Then we have our water. Yay, ready to go! Down the hatch. Well, give it a chase, right? Get it all the way down. Do not let it settle in the middle. Chase it all the way down to your tummy.

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(3:13) Done with the sugar, done with the turpentine—over there. Now, Shilajit! Yay!

(3:27) All right, now this is the tropics, so my Shilajit is going to look pretty gooey here. It’s going to be liquidy. So if you’re up north where it’s colder, this is probably more like resin. But as you can see, this really just comes out nicely.

(3:49) Now, we only need 200 milligrams. That is considerably more than 200 milligrams, so we’re going to scrape this off, and that’s about right. That’s a good 200 milligrams. Doctor, how do I know? Well, you could get a scale—that’s a possibility—or it’s about a quarter of a quarter teaspoon.

(4:13) We’re going to take this and put it in the water and let it dissolve because it does not dissolve easily. It really is more like a resin, and this is a very broad-spectrum mineral supplement far superior to any other mineral supplement that I’ve tried over the years. This is actually famous—it’s called the destroyer of weakness. That’s just how powerful it is.

(4:39) This is known as Mumio or Shilajit, as you can see. If you understand that, yeah, it is not even written in English. Correct—not even written in English. Your keyboard could not possibly put those characters in there. No. Best purchase on eBay from the Russian Federation. It is the Russian pride—they’re very proud of their Shilajit. They scoop it right off the ground, put it in the can for you.

(5:05) And this I take every day—or try to. Again, I miss about one or two days a week. Okay, so we’ve got our Shilajit brewing here, and I’m actually going to add more things to Shilajit as we do today’s show because the things I’m going to add are actually relevant to our topic, which is "Hey, good looking." Yeah!

(5:30) All right, making Valentine’s Day every day, or making every day Valentine’s Day. Oh, wait, one more thing. Questions for the show—we answer questions at the end—should be mailed to jdaaaaaniels@gmail.com. You can send questions to that email address, and they will be considered for future shows.

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(6:32) So, why this song, "Hey, good looking, what you got cooking"? This is from 1953. That was the year—68 years ago—yes, before I was born, and this song really sums up the modern-day situation where people say they have difficulty finding love, and it offers the key—the answer to finding more love, an incredible abundance of love. Love, of course, takes many forms: it can be friendship, kindness, just really positive caring and acceptance between two people.

(7:22) So, let’s go for the first phrase: "Hey, good looking." What does that mean? That means you’ve passed the physical test. That means this other person is interested in finding out more. So whether this person likes one piece of anatomy or another—you’ve got it all. So when you get the "Hey, good looking" sign, you’re good. But then there’s the next piece, which is, "What you got cooking?"

(7:52) And what Hank would say is, "What you got cooking?" So what have you got cooking? That means, what’s happening in your life? What is going on in your life? And when a person is asking that question, what they’re really asking is, "Is there something in your life? Is there any space or room for me? And if there is, is what’s going on in your life something I would like to share or be a part of?"

(8:17) So this is very important because if you lead a life of, let’s call it, self-expression, then when someone asks you, "What you got cooking?" you can give them a list of what you’ve got cooking, and they can quickly decide, "Wow, that’s what I like," or they can say, "You know what? That is not for me, but I know who would really like this." And what this does is create a situation in your life where you are surrounded by people who think you’re pretty cool.

(8:53) So, let’s see. What was the motivation for this? I was thinking about this, thinking about the situation and what people are going through, and how people can create more happiness in this context. I also thought back to my own life, where a guy actually sang this song to me. He said, "Hey, good looking." But I didn’t know the whole song—of course, the song was from before I was born, and I didn’t understand.

(9:21) I got the "Hey, good looking" part, but when it came to "What you got cooking?" I was like, "Oh no, I’ve got to whip up something for him? Oh, I just can’t do that." And of course, I couldn’t. Why? I was working 80 hours a week as a resident. I was pregnant with my second baby, so I was totally distracted. For those of you wondering, "Wait, second baby? Weren’t you married?" No, the babies were through artificial insemination.

(9:51) So, pregnant with my second baby, and really, there was not a lot of space in my life. But if I’d understood the communication, I would have said, "Well, let’s make some space for you." But I did not understand, so I’m breaking it down so you can understand, and I’m giving you some advice on what to do and telling you what I do now in my everyday life to create consecutive days filled with happiness, love, and friendship.

(10:23) At that time, my life was... I really didn’t have a lot cooking in terms of acceptance. However, I did have one kid and a second one on the way, so really, for him, the question was, "Do I want to be a father?" The answer, of course, at the time was yes.

(10:43) So, let’s fast forward to my present-day life and what I’ve got cooking. I’m going to share that with you. In preparation for this show, I had to walk around my house and look at what I had cooking. And so, I’m not saying you should have the same things cooking—I’m saying you should have something cooking that reflects you, and that thing you have cooking literally invites other people into your life. That way, you can shape a life of happiness and love. Yay!

(11:21) All right, so what have I got cooking? First thing I’ve got cooking is vanilla. Vanilla! So I mixed six vanilla beans—that’s six beans—with eight ounces of alcohol. I use whiskey; you can use vodka, but whiskey is the better of the two, supposedly. We’re going to find out. Now, this brews—as you can see, this was started brewing in October of 2020—this brews for two years. Two! Two years.

(11:53) Vanilla is the king of aphrodisiacs, and I’m going to give you a demonstration here. Now, this is not distilled—I mean, not fermented—so when I pop this, you’re not going to hear anything, but inhale this... Whoa! Amazing. So, this puts just anybody in a good mood—this makes you feel loved and love other people, whoever you see.

(12:30) So, when someone asks what you got cooking, and you say, "I have vanilla extract cooking," they’re going to say, "Wow!" Even if they don’t know what vanilla extract is, they’re going to know at least that vanilla extract is the main ingredient in some pretty sweet stuff and nice desserts, so they immediately understand you’ve got something to share.

(12:57) All right, there’s vanilla—put that down. Now, some things in my house I just wasn’t able to bring because there’s just so much stuff. Okay, so that’s the vanilla. Then, another favorite of mine is... another thing I have brewing is bitters. Yes, bitters! Bitters are awesome. What bitters do is they go into your body and deeply cleanse your connective tissue and all that fibrous tissue between your muscles and around your joints that can cause stiffness—it dissolves them so they leave your body.

(13:33) Bitters also have herbs in them that improve your disposition, calm you down, and make you mellow. They also have herbs that clean out your liver and flush your bile so you’re not going to be getting any stones. Why? Because the bile keeps flowing. So, let’s look at the bitters again. I’ve got that brewing. I want to say about the vanilla—excuse me—it takes two years, but you can start using a teaspoon of it after about two or three months. When you use a teaspoon, you put in a teaspoon of the alcohol base, which is vodka or whiskey, and whenever you take out a teaspoon, you put in a teaspoon of liquor.

(14:09) I started two bottles at the same time—one bottle is going to go the full two years, unbothered, and the other bottle I’m already using, and it is amazing. All right, bitters. So, bitters—we have herbs in the bottom, as I described, and this is the vodka blend. You can see that the herbs have colored the alcohol. Now, bitters are complex, so we have that, and then bitters also—that’s the bittering part that cleans the connective tissue and the bile. This is the herb blend, and this is the part that neutralizes the toxins as they leave the liver so that the stomach can receive them calmly and peacefully.

(15:01) Then we have our orange, which is the flavoring. So, these are brewing, and I will decant them on the full moon and mix them all together—yay!—and I will have bitters. Now, bitters—I happen to have a batch that’s already done. So this is a completed batch, and I just recycled the vodka bottle. See? Bitters! And as you can see, this was made in October 2020, and this lasted me November, December, January, and now February—so this lasts four months. Pretty good!

(15:48) But we’re going to do that—I’m going to take this and add it to my Shilajit. Now, yeah, there we go. I’m going to put this over here so if I start spilling it, it won’t be a problem. All right, we’re going to fill this up. Yeah, there we go. All right, bitters—so I take my bitters every day. Now, usually, when I do the show, I don’t. I take the bitters separately later on because it’s a big explanation.

(16:22) Okay, so those are bitters. So, every day is a good day, and so when you say to someone, "I’ve got bitters," and they ask, "What you got cooking?" you say, "Bitters." They’re like, "Something else to share!" Bitters—that’s the key. You want to have something brewing that you can share and that can also make your friendship with other people better and stronger. So, here we have bitters.

(16:39) Then we have hair conditioner—that is way up there, and it’s pretty heavy. So, hair conditioner basically is rice water with grapefruit peels. You simmer the grapefruit peels for a bit, strain out the grapefruit water, and put it in the bottle with the rice water and let it sit. That ferments, however, it doesn’t require a fermenting seal or whatever, and it should ferment anywhere from a week to six weeks.

(17:06) Now, what does this rice hair conditioner indicate? Well, it gives you, of course, soft, touchable hair. Yeah, so when someone says, "What do you have cooking?" you say, "I have rice water grapefruit hair conditioner." Immediately—soft hair that can be touched. Amazing! And so then you draw people closer to you.

(17:36) So, I brew enough to last about six weeks, and then once I get down to one or two weeks’ worth, I just start brewing another batch. Then, there is cough syrup. Yes, I actually make my own cough syrup, and it’s a simple syrup, which is basically equal parts sugar and water. There’s your syrup—yay!—easy. Then you just spoon in some menthol, some eucalyptus, a splash of turpentine, stir it up, and when you get a cold, just take a teaspoon—knocks it right out.

(18:16) So, if you tell someone—they ask you, "What you’ve got cooking?" and you say, "Well, you know, I made some cough syrup." They’re like, "Wow, that’s really interesting!" and they think to themselves, "Geez, if I ever get a cough, I’d want to be with you!" Again, what you have brewing gives other people a picture of—not just you, of course, but what you might do together. So, if you get things brewing or cooking that you can share, then that creates a life that can be shared.

(18:57) All right, next! A few days ago, if you’d asked me, I would have said, "Oh, I have chicken marinating in buttermilk," which in my case is not really buttermilk—it’s just milk with vinegar added, and that tenderizes the chicken. Again, someone realizes, "Oh, wow, there is something cooking that we can share."

(19:19) Now, the dollar cost of these things is anywhere from ten cents to ten dollars, so we’re not talking big economic investment here. But what we are talking about is putting things in your life that communicate to other people that you have space in your life to share, and that is a very wealthy, wealthy life.

(19:47) Next is Ras el Hanout. What the heck is that? Ha! So, Ras el Hanout is a blend of about 15 spices from the Middle East, and Ras el Hanout means "top shelf." During the spice trade or the Silk Road, the spice merchants along the route would try to sell, of course, their spices, and what each spice shop would do is put together a blend of their top best spices. That blend has become known as Ras el Hanout.

(20:27) So, I’ve made my own blend. It’s super simple—you just take the herbs. I don’t even buy the powdered herbs. I buy the whole herbs, toast them, put them into my Vitamix, and bam! There they are.

(20:54) Now, what’s so great about this? It has a blend of spices like black seed, which is famous for curing cancer, oregano—many anti-parasite, many detoxing herbs—herbs for disposition and calmness, acceptance. Because the blend is all together, you can just spoon it generously on whatever savory dish you’re making, adjust the salt to your level that you like, and bam! You have got something definitely worth sharing.

(21:19) Ras el Hanout—now you can buy this already made, yes, you can, but I personally don’t buy pre-blended spices because they have chemicals in them and anti-caking agents, and why bother? Now, this does take time to make because you have to get all the spices out there on the counter, but you’re talking about a 15-minute investment. When I made this, it was a full jar.

(22:05) So, what I recommend people do is make enough to last you about six months, and then you remake it every six months. Also, I recommend—I don’t do it, but I think you should do it—is print out the recipe that you use. The recipe is small enough, as with the vanilla, I just write the recipe right on the bottle: six vanilla beans and eight ounces of whiskey. That’s it. And of course, the date you made it—the date you made it lets you know how long it’s lasting you and when you need to start or make your next batch.

(22:33) But Ras el Hanout is major. When I started using it, I came across it by accident. I blended it together, started using it, and was like, "Wow!" I had more energy, my digestion was just amazing—just really great—and I was just much more upbeat, happy, and joyous. I know you’re wondering, "Dr. Daniels, how could you become any happier?" It’s possible! Haha! Well, I should say it happened unexpectedly.

(23:07) Okay, so what else do we have? I have mustard seeds soaking in vinegar and spices. Yes, that’s what I’ve got cooking. Again, this is something like, "Oh, something to share." Someone would say, "Oh my god, she’s making her own mustard. We can have sandwiches!" So, a person wanting to be your friend would say, "Well, wait, I’ll be right back," and maybe they’ll go get some meat or a roast, or if they’re vegetarian, some grilled eggplant—whatever—and you can enjoy that with the mustard.

(23:52) So, what you want to do when you have things cooking is get things cooking that you like and that people who like you, it will prompt them to say, "Hey, what do I have to bring to the party? How can we do things together?" So, it’s really nice.

(24:05) Now, the nice thing about mustard, of course, is when you make mustard, there’s mustard seed in it. When you buy it from the store, there’s actually not much mustard seed in it, and they put in white flour and other things as thickener, and these thickeners do not need to be on the label, by the way. So, make your own mustard. All you do is pour everything in the jar, let it sit—supposedly for two days, but honestly, sometimes I forget it and let it sit for a month before I get around to blending it. Then you blend it, bam! You’re done.

(24:37) And I usually make a half-gallon of mustard at a time, and for me, that’s enough for a year, so I blend my mustard once a year, which is great.

(24:47) Then there’s dried rosemary. So, I was visiting a friend, and she gave me a few stems of rosemary, and I just put them on my counter, and they dried. I just took all the rosemary leaves or needles off and put them in a bowl, and they are sitting there now. I can just let them sit there, and they will infuse the room with an aroma of rosemary, which is very pleasant.

(25:29) The rosemary also is very helpful for making your thinking sharper, for giving you energy, and it’s just a very nice thing to have around to create friendship when people walk into the house. Now, if I wanted to be more frugal with my rosemary, I would put it in a glass jar, screw the top on, so that the power or potency of the rosemary would be preserved. And rosemary is wonderful to use in bean dishes or meat dishes.

(25:42) What else do we have? Jamaican jelly! So, this is the season for Jamaica, and this is jelly, which I’ve made from the Jamaica fruit. It was all the way up to here, but as you can see, between giving it away to friends and using it to take my Shilajit, it’s gone pretty quick. Now, those of you who don’t live in Jamaica, who live in the United States maybe, might know this as hibiscus flower.

(26:11) So, here we are. We’re just going to pull a little bit. Now, I do not put very much sugar in my jelly. What does that mean? That means I darn well better refrigerate it because the sugar also acts as a preservative. Now, if you go online and you look for recipes for hibiscus jelly or hibiscus jam, they’re going to tell you: simple syrup—sugar, water, Jamaica fruit, and... yeah.

(26:54) And I say no! We’re trying to make every day Valentine’s Day here, so what you do—what I do—is put in cardamom, another major love and friendship spice. I also put in cinnamon, another major love and friendship spice, and I blend this together.

(27:20) As I said in previous videos, I walk around the block every day—yay!—with no mask, and I wave to everybody, and I say, "Hello, how are you?" I say it in Spanish. And so the people who wave back to me, when I come around the block in future times, I give them a gift.

(27:42) Now, I want to tell you about this hibiscus—it’s hibiscus. This is the actual fruit—wait, yeah, that’s the fruit. And in order to make the jelly, you have to peel off, take out the seed—there’s the seed. The seed is totally inedible, but if you simmer it, it has incredible flavor that adds to the jelly, so I’ll simmer this and then add the fruit.

(28:13) The fruit—you can eat it raw if you want to. It’s a nice sour flavor. So, one lady waves at me every day; it’s very friendly. So, I gave her—I always have to ask permission—"Do you like hibiscus jelly?" And she said yes. I said, "Okay, I’ll bring some for you." So, I brought her some jelly. Now, did I just call this hibiscus jam? No, I did not. I said this is hibiscus jelly, the jelly of friendship. I put it in Spanish: "De Jennifer a..." [From Jennifer to...] and her name.

(29:00) This is the way what you have cooking can literally create love and friendship every day of your life, really all day. So, every day I walk around the block, and every day I wave to people, and some days I’ll bring a gift for someone who’s waved to me or said hello. This really helps build friendship, love, and kindness.

(29:29) Now, what about the hibiscus? Well, the hibiscus is also a liver cleanser, so it helps cleanse the liver, and it’s very uplifting to the spirit and disposition. So, if you give someone a gift like hibiscus jelly made with cardamom and cinnamon, then you’ve created for that person an uplifting experience filled with love and acceptance directly from the spices, and they feel it.

(30:07) What else have I got cooking? Well, I’ve got a distiller out back, distilling purified water so I can drink, and anyone who visits can drink pure, clean, healthy water. Newsflash: tap water is not a health food.

(30:29) Next, I had to go check my refrigerator for you. We have pickled beets. So, the pickled beets—unpickled eggs. These are pickled beet eggs, so you can see that there are onions in there, there are beets in there, and there are eggs in there. This is amazing.

(31:08) So, when someone says to you, "What you got cooking?" and you say, "Oh, I’ve got pickled beets brewing," they’re like, "Wow, sounds like a picnic to me." What you have cooking, again, inspires other people to be friendly. You want to have—or unfriendly, we’ll talk about that. You just want to have stuff cooking in your life that inspires other people to be friendly to you.

(31:29) Now, these beets—amazing. Beets are a blood tonic, strengthen your blood, cleanse your liver, improve your circulation, lower your blood pressure—amazing. And then we have onions, which also promote circulation. Can’t forget the spices! I sneak some cardamom in there, as well as star anise, and I think a pinch of mustard seed.

(32:08) Again, this is something to share. When someone asks, "What do you have cooking?" and you give them that kind of answer, "Oh, I’ve got pickled beets brewing," they’re like, "Oh, well, maybe we can spend time together. I’ve got this, and we’ll put that with your pickled beets and sit down and chat and have a good time."

(32:18) So, really take the opportunity to get stuff brewing and have things to share. Now, let’s see what else we’ve got.

(32:22) The next thing—I checked my fridge—I’ve got sauerkraut brewing. Sauerkraut is amazing—it’s a digestive aid, flavor enhancer, probiotic, and again, ready to share. If you say to someone, "I’ve got some sauerkraut brewing," they’re like, "Wow, sauerkraut! Well, if you’ve got sauerkraut, I’ve got..." fill in the blank. They’ll have something they’ll think of, and they’ll want to bring it to match your sauerkraut.

(33:16) So, what you have brewing is very, very, very important. These things I’ve mentioned that I have brewing happen to be things that also enhance health. A lot of you are saying, "Well, Dr. Daniels, what about the recipes?" Again, we have a half-hour show here, so let’s see what we’ve got here—oh my god, we’re out of time!

(33:05) So, the important thing is—oh, so I have the Home Healers Program where I show you these recipes, but what I want you to understand is that what you have brewing really does shape your life. I want to give a counterexample: if you pick the average 21-year-old in the United States—I’ll tell you, when I was 21—if someone asked me what I had brewing, I would tell you I was going to college and probably writing a paper, maybe on my way to a dining hall where the person who asked me what I had brewing was not allowed or permitted.

(33:39) So, that’s a very anti-friendship type of situation or life, and that would be a life where really nothing is brewing. There’s nothing to share. So, I would urge people to really take a look at their life and get something brewing to share. The things I present today are just ideas, and I think you should use your own ideas. Maybe what you’ve got cooking is you’re working on a painting. Maybe what you’ve got cooking is that you’re getting ready to go roller skating, and maybe someone would want to go with you.

(34:19) The important thing is to examine your life and take a look at what you’ve got cooking, and check out the song, "Hey, good looking, what you got cooking?" because if you’ve got something cooking, then the other person says, "Hey, how about cooking up something with me?" and, "How about saving your time for me?"

(34:44) So, people think of ways, once they see what you have cooking, of spending time with you, of having fun with you, of enjoying time with you. I hope that’s been helpful to you in seeing how you can make every day Valentine’s Day.

(35:00) And I’m sorry we didn’t have time for questions today, but as I always say, "Think happens," and we’ll get to those questions next time. Okay, bye.Introduction and Topic Overview

(0:00) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and you are listening to Healing with Dr. Daniels. This is the February 14th, 2021 edition, and today's topic is: "Hey, good looking, what you got cooking?" So today, I am going to explore the opening line of a popular love song and show you what you can create so you can make every day feel like Valentine's Day, filled with health, happiness, friendship, and love. As always, think happens.

(0:38) But first, a quick update on Mom. Mom is doing so well that they are kicking her out of hospice. Yes, she went from comatose to out of hospice just from a grandkid showing up and cooking for her. There we go.

(1:00) Then, of course, we're going to take our turpentine. Yes, and as always, when you have powerful things in the house, you must label them. So this is turpentine—yes, so don't let anyone teach you otherwise about labeling your stuff. Anyone looking at this will know that this is not soda pop. There you go, that’s all you need, so you really need to label your stuff and take that seriously.

(1:28) On more than one occasion, I have made something only to look at the bottle and say, "What the heck is that?" Don’t let it happen to you. Okay, then we have sugar. Yay! White sugar. I even label the sugar. Yes, I do. Why? There are a lot of things that are white in the house—it could be salt, could be sugar, could be vitamin C. I don’t know. Well, actually, I do because I label it, and you should too.

(1:57) Okay, then we have our little pipette. Yay! My dose that I like is half a teaspoon, and I take this every single day. Honestly, I try to; some days I miss, so usually about five times a week. There we go. We’re going to squish it on this, and just in case I didn’t say so, this is a regular teaspoon, not a dessert spoon. There we go.

(2:34) Then we have our water. Yay, ready to go! Down the hatch. Well, give it a chase, right? Get it all the way down. Do not let it settle in the middle. Chase it all the way down to your tummy.

(2:52) Those of you who like more information on how to take turpentine, go to vitalitycapsules.com and download your free report, the Candida Cleaner. Yes, this report was first written in 2010, a time of extreme censorship where we could not use the word turpentine in the title and had to use a euphemism, the Candida Cleaner.

(3:13) Done with the sugar, done with the turpentine—over there. Now, Shilajit! Yay!

(3:27) All right, now this is the tropics, so my Shilajit is going to look pretty gooey here. It’s going to be liquidy. So if you’re up north where it’s colder, this is probably more like resin. But as you can see, this really just comes out nicely.

(3:49) Now, we only need 200 milligrams. That is considerably more than 200 milligrams, so we’re going to scrape this off, and that’s about right. That’s a good 200 milligrams. Doctor, how do I know? Well, you could get a scale—that’s a possibility—or it’s about a quarter of a quarter teaspoon.

(4:13) We’re going to take this and put it in the water and let it dissolve because it does not dissolve easily. It really is more like a resin, and this is a very broad-spectrum mineral supplement far superior to any other mineral supplement that I’ve tried over the years. This is actually famous—it’s called the destroyer of weakness. That’s just how powerful it is.

(4:39) This is known as Mumio or Shilajit, as you can see. If you understand that, yeah, it is not even written in English. Correct—not even written in English. Your keyboard could not possibly put those characters in there. No. Best purchase on eBay from the Russian Federation. It is the Russian pride—they’re very proud of their Shilajit. They scoop it right off the ground, put it in the can for you.

(5:05) And this I take every day—or try to. Again, I miss about one or two days a week. Okay, so we’ve got our Shilajit brewing here, and I’m actually going to add more things to Shilajit as we do today’s show because the things I’m going to add are actually relevant to our topic, which is "Hey, good looking." Yeah!

(5:30) All right, making Valentine’s Day every day, or making every day Valentine’s Day. Oh, wait, one more thing. Questions for the show—we answer questions at the end—should be mailed to jdaaaaaniels@gmail.com. You can send questions to that email address, and they will be considered for future shows.

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(6:32) So, why this song, "Hey, good looking, what you got cooking"? This is from 1953. That was the year—68 years ago—yes, before I was born, and this song really sums up the modern-day situation where people say they have difficulty finding love, and it offers the key—the answer to finding more love, an incredible abundance of love. Love, of course, takes many forms: it can be friendship, kindness, just really positive caring and acceptance between two people.

(7:22) So, let’s go for the first phrase: "Hey, good looking." What does that mean? That means you’ve passed the physical test. That means this other person is interested in finding out more. So whether this person likes one piece of anatomy or another—you’ve got it all. So when you get the "Hey, good looking" sign, you’re good. But then there’s the next piece, which is, "What you got cooking?"

(7:52) And what Hank would say is, "What you got cooking?" So what have you got cooking? That means, what’s happening in your life? What is going on in your life? And when a person is asking that question, what they’re really asking is, "Is there something in your life? Is there any space or room for me? And if there is, is what’s going on in your life something I would like to share or be a part of?"

(8:17) So this is very important because if you lead a life of, let’s call it, self-expression, then when someone asks you, "What you got cooking?" you can give them a list of what you’ve got cooking, and they can quickly decide, "Wow, that’s what I like," or they can say, "You know what? That is not for me, but I know who would really like this." And what this does is create a situation in your life where you are surrounded by people who think you’re pretty cool.

(8:53) So, let’s see. What was the motivation for this? I was thinking about this, thinking about the situation and what people are going through, and how people can create more happiness in this context. I also thought back to my own life, where a guy actually sang this song to me. He said, "Hey, good looking." But I didn’t know the whole song—of course, the song was from before I was born, and I didn’t understand.

(9:21) I got the "Hey, good looking" part, but when it came to "What you got cooking?" I was like, "Oh no, I’ve got to whip up something for him? Oh, I just can’t do that." And of course, I couldn’t. Why? I was working 80 hours a week as a resident. I was pregnant with my second baby, so I was totally distracted. For those of you wondering, "Wait, second baby? Weren’t you married?" No, the babies were through artificial insemination.

(9:51) So, pregnant with my second baby, and really, there was not a lot of space in my life. But if I’d understood the communication, I would have said, "Well, let’s make some space for you." But I did not understand, so I’m breaking it down so you can understand, and I’m giving you some advice on what to do and telling you what I do now in my everyday life to create consecutive days filled with happiness, love, and friendship.

(10:23) At that time, my life was... I really didn’t have a lot cooking in terms of acceptance. However, I did have one kid and a second one on the way, so really, for him, the question was, "Do I want to be a father?" The answer, of course, at the time was yes.

(10:43) So, let’s fast forward to my present-day life and what I’ve got cooking. I’m going to share that with you. In preparation for this show, I had to walk around my house and look at what I had cooking. And so, I’m not saying you should have the same things cooking—I’m saying you should have something cooking that reflects you, and that thing you have cooking literally invites other people into your life. That way, you can shape a life of happiness and love. Yay!

(11:21) All right, so what have I got cooking? First thing I’ve got cooking is vanilla. Vanilla! So I mixed six vanilla beans—that’s six beans—with eight ounces of alcohol. I use whiskey; you can use vodka, but whiskey is the better of the two, supposedly. We’re going to find out. Now, this brews—as you can see, this was started brewing in October of 2020—this brews for two years. Two! Two years.

(11:53) Vanilla is the king of aphrodisiacs, and I’m going to give you a demonstration here. Now, this is not distilled—I mean, not fermented—so when I pop this, you’re not going to hear anything, but inhale this... Whoa! Amazing. So, this puts just anybody in a good mood—this makes you feel loved and love other people, whoever you see.

(12:30) So, when someone asks what you got cooking, and you say, "I have vanilla extract cooking," they’re going to say, "Wow!" Even if they don’t know what vanilla extract is, they’re going to know at least that vanilla extract is the main ingredient in some pretty sweet stuff and nice desserts, so they immediately understand you’ve got something to share.

(12:57) All right, there’s vanilla—put that down. Now, some things in my house I just wasn’t able to bring because there’s just so much stuff. Okay, so that’s the vanilla. Then, another favorite of mine is... another thing I have brewing is bitters. Yes, bitters! Bitters are awesome. What bitters do is they go into your body and deeply cleanse your connective tissue and all that fibrous tissue between your muscles and around your joints that can cause stiffness—it dissolves them so they leave your body.

(13:33) Bitters also have herbs in them that improve your disposition, calm you down, and make you mellow. They also have herbs that clean out your liver and flush your bile so you’re not going to be getting any stones. Why? Because the bile keeps flowing. So, let’s look at the bitters again. I’ve got that brewing. I want to say about the vanilla—excuse me—it takes two years, but you can start using a teaspoon of it after about two or three months. When you use a teaspoon, you put in a teaspoon of the alcohol base, which is vodka or whiskey, and whenever you take out a teaspoon, you put in a teaspoon of liquor.

(14:09) I started two bottles at the same time—one bottle is going to go the full two years, unbothered, and the other bottle I’m already using, and it is amazing. All right, bitters. So, bitters—we have herbs in the bottom, as I described, and this is the vodka blend. You can see that the herbs have colored the alcohol. Now, bitters are complex, so we have that, and then bitters also—that’s the bittering part that cleans the connective tissue and the bile. This is the herb blend, and this is the part that neutralizes the toxins as they leave the liver so that the stomach can receive them calmly and peacefully.

(15:01) Then we have our orange, which is the flavoring. So, these are brewing, and I will decant them on the full moon and mix them all together—yay!—and I will have bitters. Now, bitters—I happen to have a batch that’s already done. So this is a completed batch, and I just recycled the vodka bottle. See? Bitters! And as you can see, this was made in October 2020, and this lasted me November, December, January, and now February—so this lasts four months. Pretty good!

(15:48) But we’re going to do that—I’m going to take this and add it to my Shilajit. Now, yeah, there we go. I’m going to put this over here so if I start spilling it, it won’t be a problem. All right, we’re going to fill this up. Yeah, there we go. All right, bitters—so I take my bitters every day. Now, usually, when I do the show, I don’t. I take the bitters separately later on because it’s a big explanation.

(16:22) Okay, so those are bitters. So, every day is a good day, and so when you say to someone, "I’ve got bitters," and they ask, "What you got cooking?" you say, "Bitters." They’re like, "Something else to share!" Bitters—that’s the key. You want to have something brewing that you can share and that can also make your friendship with other people better and stronger. So, here we have bitters.

(16:39) Then we have hair conditioner—that is way up there, and it’s pretty heavy. So, hair conditioner basically is rice water with grapefruit peels. You simmer the grapefruit peels for a bit, strain out the grapefruit water, and put it in the bottle with the rice water and let it sit. That ferments, however, it doesn’t require a fermenting seal or whatever, and it should ferment anywhere from a week to six weeks.

(17:06) Now, what does this rice hair conditioner indicate? Well, it gives you, of course, soft, touchable hair. Yeah, so when someone says, "What do you have cooking?" you say, "I have rice water grapefruit hair conditioner." Immediately—soft hair that can be touched. Amazing! And so then you draw people closer to you.

(17:36) So, I brew enough to last about six weeks, and then once I get down to one or two weeks’ worth, I just start brewing another batch. Then, there is cough syrup. Yes, I actually make my own cough syrup, and it’s a simple syrup, which is basically equal parts sugar and water. There’s your syrup—yay!—easy. Then you just spoon in some menthol, some eucalyptus, a splash of turpentine, stir it up, and when you get a cold, just take a teaspoon—knocks it right out.

(18:16) So, if you tell someone—they ask you, "What you’ve got cooking?" and you say, "Well, you know, I made some cough syrup." They’re like, "Wow, that’s really interesting!" and they think to themselves, "Geez, if I ever get a cough, I’d want to be with you!" Again, what you have brewing gives other people a picture of—not just you, of course, but what you might do together. So, if you get things brewing or cooking that you can share, then that creates a life that can be shared.

(18:57) All right, next! A few days ago, if you’d asked me, I would have said, "Oh, I have chicken marinating in buttermilk," which in my case is not really buttermilk—it’s just milk with vinegar added, and that tenderizes the chicken. Again, someone realizes, "Oh, wow, there is something cooking that we can share."

(19:19) Now, the dollar cost of these things is anywhere from ten cents to ten dollars, so we’re not talking big economic investment here. But what we are talking about is putting things in your life that communicate to other people that you have space in your life to share, and that is a very wealthy, wealthy life.

(19:47) Next is Ras el Hanout. What the heck is that? Ha! So, Ras el Hanout is a blend of about 15 spices from the Middle East, and Ras el Hanout means "top shelf." During the spice trade or the Silk Road, the spice merchants along the route would try to sell, of course, their spices, and what each spice shop would do is put together a blend of their top best spices. That blend has become known as Ras el Hanout.

(20:27) So, I’ve made my own blend. It’s super simple—you just take the herbs. I don’t even buy the powdered herbs. I buy the whole herbs, toast them, put them into my Vitamix, and bam! There they are.

(20:54) Now, what’s so great about this? It has a blend of spices like black seed, which is famous for curing cancer, oregano—many anti-parasite, many detoxing herbs—herbs for disposition and calmness, acceptance. Because the blend is all together, you can just spoon it generously on whatever savory dish you’re making, adjust the salt to your level that you like, and bam! You have got something definitely worth sharing.

(21:19) Ras el Hanout—now you can buy this already made, yes, you can, but I personally don’t buy pre-blended spices because they have chemicals in them and anti-caking agents, and why bother? Now, this does take time to make because you have to get all the spices out there on the counter, but you’re talking about a 15-minute investment. When I made this, it was a full jar.

(22:05) So, what I recommend people do is make enough to last you about six months, and then you remake it every six months. Also, I recommend—I don’t do it, but I think you should do it—is print out the recipe that you use. The recipe is small enough, as with the vanilla, I just write the recipe right on the bottle: six vanilla beans and eight ounces of whiskey. That’s it. And of course, the date you made it—the date you made it lets you know how long it’s lasting you and when you need to start or make your next batch.

(22:33) But Ras el Hanout is major. When I started using it, I came across it by accident. I blended it together, started using it, and was like, "Wow!" I had more energy, my digestion was just amazing—just really great—and I was just much more upbeat, happy, and joyous. I know you’re wondering, "Dr. Daniels, how could you become any happier?" It’s possible! Haha! Well, I should say it happened unexpectedly.

(23:07) Okay, so what else do we have? I have mustard seeds soaking in vinegar and spices. Yes, that’s what I’ve got cooking. Again, this is something like, "Oh, something to share." Someone would say, "Oh my god, she’s making her own mustard. We can have sandwiches!" So, a person wanting to be your friend would say, "Well, wait, I’ll be right back," and maybe they’ll go get some meat or a roast, or if they’re vegetarian, some grilled eggplant—whatever—and you can enjoy that with the mustard.

(23:52) So, what you want to do when you have things cooking is get things cooking that you like and that people who like you, it will prompt them to say, "Hey, what do I have to bring to the party? How can we do things together?" So, it’s really nice.

(24:05) Now, the nice thing about mustard, of course, is when you make mustard, there’s mustard seed in it. When you buy it from the store, there’s actually not much mustard seed in it, and they put in white flour and other things as thickener, and these thickeners do not need to be on the label, by the way. So, make your own mustard. All you do is pour everything in the jar, let it sit—supposedly for two days, but honestly, sometimes I forget it and let it sit for a month before I get around to blending it. Then you blend it, bam! You’re done.

(24:37) And I usually make a half-gallon of mustard at a time, and for me, that’s enough for a year, so I blend my mustard once a year, which is great.

(24:47) Then there’s dried rosemary. So, I was visiting a friend, and she gave me a few stems of rosemary, and I just put them on my counter, and they dried. I just took all the rosemary leaves or needles off and put them in a bowl, and they are sitting there now. I can just let them sit there, and they will infuse the room with an aroma of rosemary, which is very pleasant.

(25:29) The rosemary also is very helpful for making your thinking sharper, for giving you energy, and it’s just a very nice thing to have around to create friendship when people walk into the house. Now, if I wanted to be more frugal with my rosemary, I would put it in a glass jar, screw the top on, so that the power or potency of the rosemary would be preserved. And rosemary is wonderful to use in bean dishes or meat dishes.

(25:42) What else do we have? Jamaican jelly! So, this is the season for Jamaica, and this is jelly, which I’ve made from the Jamaica fruit. It was all the way up to here, but as you can see, between giving it away to friends and using it to take my Shilajit, it’s gone pretty quick. Now, those of you who don’t live in Jamaica, who live in the United States maybe, might know this as hibiscus flower.

(26:11) So, here we are. We’re just going to pull a little bit. Now, I do not put very much sugar in my jelly. What does that mean? That means I darn well better refrigerate it because the sugar also acts as a preservative. Now, if you go online and you look for recipes for hibiscus jelly or hibiscus jam, they’re going to tell you: simple syrup—sugar, water, Jamaica fruit, and... yeah.

(26:54) And I say no! We’re trying to make every day Valentine’s Day here, so what you do—what I do—is put in cardamom, another major love and friendship spice. I also put in cinnamon, another major love and friendship spice, and I blend this together.

(27:20) As I said in previous videos, I walk around the block every day—yay!—with no mask, and I wave to everybody, and I say, "Hello, how are you?" I say it in Spanish. And so the people who wave back to me, when I come around the block in future times, I give them a gift.

(27:42) Now, I want to tell you about this hibiscus—it’s hibiscus. This is the actual fruit—wait, yeah, that’s the fruit. And in order to make the jelly, you have to peel off, take out the seed—there’s the seed. The seed is totally inedible, but if you simmer it, it has incredible flavor that adds to the jelly, so I’ll simmer this and then add the fruit.

(28:13) The fruit—you can eat it raw if you want to. It’s a nice sour flavor. So, one lady waves at me every day; it’s very friendly. So, I gave her—I always have to ask permission—"Do you like hibiscus jelly?" And she said yes. I said, "Okay, I’ll bring some for you." So, I brought her some jelly. Now, did I just call this hibiscus jam? No, I did not. I said this is hibiscus jelly, the jelly of friendship. I put it in Spanish: "De Jennifer a..." [From Jennifer to...] and her name.

(29:00) This is the way what you have cooking can literally create love and friendship every day of your life, really all day. So, every day I walk around the block, and every day I wave to people, and some days I’ll bring a gift for someone who’s waved to me or said hello. This really helps build friendship, love, and kindness.

(29:29) Now, what about the hibiscus? Well, the hibiscus is also a liver cleanser, so it helps cleanse the liver, and it’s very uplifting to the spirit and disposition. So, if you give someone a gift like hibiscus jelly made with cardamom and cinnamon, then you’ve created for that person an uplifting experience filled with love and acceptance directly from the spices, and they feel it.

(30:07) What else have I got cooking? Well, I’ve got a distiller out back, distilling purified water so I can drink, and anyone who visits can drink pure, clean, healthy water. Newsflash: tap water is not a health food.

(30:29) Next, I had to go check my refrigerator for you. We have pickled beets. So, the pickled beets—unpickled eggs. These are pickled beet eggs, so you can see that there are onions in there, there are beets in there, and there are eggs in there. This is amazing.

(31:08) So, when someone says to you, "What you got cooking?" and you say, "Oh, I’ve got pickled beets brewing," they’re like, "Wow, sounds like a picnic to me." What you have cooking, again, inspires other people to be friendly. You want to have—or unfriendly, we’ll talk about that. You just want to have stuff cooking in your life that inspires other people to be friendly to you.

(31:29) Now, these beets—amazing. Beets are a blood tonic, strengthen your blood, cleanse your liver, improve your circulation, lower your blood pressure—amazing. And then we have onions, which also promote circulation. Can’t forget the spices! I sneak some cardamom in there, as well as star anise, and I think a pinch of mustard seed.

(32:08) Again, this is something to share. When someone asks, "What do you have cooking?" and you give them that kind of answer, "Oh, I’ve got pickled beets brewing," they’re like, "Oh, well, maybe we can spend time together. I’ve got this, and we’ll put that with your pickled beets and sit down and chat and have a good time."

(32:18) So, really take the opportunity to get stuff brewing and have things to share. Now, let’s see what else we’ve got.

(32:22) The next thing—I checked my fridge—I’ve got sauerkraut brewing. Sauerkraut is amazing—it’s a digestive aid, flavor enhancer, probiotic, and again, ready to share. If you say to someone, "I’ve got some sauerkraut brewing," they’re like, "Wow, sauerkraut! Well, if you’ve got sauerkraut, I’ve got..." fill in the blank. They’ll have something they’ll think of, and they’ll want to bring it to match your sauerkraut.

(33:16) So, what you have brewing is very, very, very important. These things I’ve mentioned that I have brewing happen to be things that also enhance health. A lot of you are saying, "Well, Dr. Daniels, what about the recipes?" Again, we have a half-hour show here, so let’s see what we’ve got here—oh my god, we’re out of time!

(33:05) So, the important thing is—oh, so I have the Home Healers Program where I show you these recipes, but what I want you to understand is that what you have brewing really does shape your life. I want to give a counterexample: if you pick the average 21-year-old in the United States—I’ll tell you, when I was 21—if someone asked me what I had brewing, I would tell you I was going to college and probably writing a paper, maybe on my way to a dining hall where the person who asked me what I had brewing was not allowed or permitted.

(33:39) So, that’s a very anti-friendship type of situation or life, and that would be a life where really nothing is brewing. There’s nothing to share. So, I would urge people to really take a look at their life and get something brewing to share. The things I present today are just ideas, and I think you should use your own ideas. Maybe what you’ve got cooking is you’re working on a painting. Maybe what you’ve got cooking is that you’re getting ready to go roller skating, and maybe someone would want to go with you.

(34:19) The important thing is to examine your life and take a look at what you’ve got cooking, and check out the song, "Hey, good looking, what you got cooking?" because if you’ve got something cooking, then the other person says, "Hey, how about cooking up something with me?" and, "How about saving your time for me?"

(34:44) So, people think of ways, once they see what you have cooking, of spending time with you, of having fun with you, of enjoying time with you. I hope that’s been helpful to you in seeing how you can make every day Valentine’s Day.

(35:00) And I’m sorry we didn’t have time for questions today, but as I always say, "Think happens," and we’ll get to those questions next time. Okay, bye.