How Being an Immigrant can Improve your health
How Being an Immigrant can Improve your healtht
Introduction and Topic Overview
(0:00) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and you are listening to Healing with Dr. Daniels. And this is Sunday, June 13th, 2021. Today’s topic is "Immigration from Both Sides Now."
(0:15) Unlike Joni Mitchell, who’s seen life from both sides now, I’ve seen immigration from both sides and feel like I have a little bit of insight and clarity. So that is the topic of today’s show. I’m going to share with you how adjusting your perspective on immigration can heal you. As always, think happens. But first, we have an update on mom. Yay.
Update on Mom
(0:41) Here we are, update on mom. Okay. So mom got the vaccine. She says that she’s getting stronger, can use the bathroom by herself, and can pull herself up, stand on her feet. Her caretakers, all of them certified, licensed by the government, have never seen an ulcer heal when it was this severe. Initially, her helpers were afraid to share with their superiors how much progress she was making, and they all decided that it was okay for her to heal, and they would keep this under wraps. She does say that before, the healthcare workers, doctors, and nurses were actually worsening things by recommending pain drugs and overaggressive dressing of her wounds.
(1:35) Now that she’s got them putting the dressings on, actually, one wound went away, and they stopped dressing it at all. The other one is shrinking, and they’re just putting a very loose dressing on that wound. She says, "I just don’t argue with them, and I just refuse anything they want." Now they want her to go see a specialist because they feel like she’s making so much progress that she’s ready for surgery. She says, "Ah, no, no, no." She decides she’s lost her respect for authority, and just because someone has a degree, she’s not going to obey them.
(2:20) My sister, who lives with my mother, has also been vaccinated, and my mother is eternally grateful to her grandson, who set up a home visit for the vaccine, and she feels he is a genius and is so happy to have the vaccine. Of course, everyone’s still wearing a mask, but they’re really amazed and thrilled. What does this tell us? It tells us that getting vaccinated is a primary decision, and we should let people who want to get vaccinated get vaccinated, and people who don’t, not get vaccinated.
Vitality Capsules Update
(2:49) All right, so that’s the update on mom. She is continuing to make progress. That brings us to Vitality Capsules. I believe we have replaced one of the two ingredients that failed our final testing, and we’re hoping to get in production, cross our fingers, in the next three weeks or so. We shall see. Once we get in production, that is a process that itself takes at least a month. So we are hoping that our present stock will last until a new stock becomes available.
Turpentine Update
(3:38) Yay! And that brings us to turpentine. Now, I have to tell you, I do not like the way turpentine tastes. However, at 64 years old, I am totally thrilled with how it makes my joints feel, and it just makes my life so much easier. So I take it, and we’ll take our turpentine. Oh, there’s another update. We’ll do a turpentine, then we’ll do the next update.
(4:05) All right, first, spoon. A lot of people ask what kind of teaspoon this is. This is a U.S. teaspoon, 5 cc, 5 grams. So that’s an interpretation of what kind of size spoon it is. This is white sugar, white sugar, white sugar. Let’s find a label. Yep. Oh, here it is. Sugar. Again, label it, because who knows? Could be ascorbic acid, could be salt. Don’t know. Want to make sure we get it right. There is the sugar. And now we have turpentine.
(4:47) Bam. We’re going to suck it up. Suck it up. Nope. Didn’t go all the way. So it did not go all the way. So I just turn the dropper upside down like this, tap it down, expel some air, then turn it right side up, dip it in turpentine, and suck more up, but only up until the neck. So I only suck it up to the neck. So you look at that. I don’t know if you can see. It goes right up to the neck and no further. All right. So here is the sugar and the turpentine. We’re just going to squirt one on top of the other. Yay.
(5:28) So up to the neck of this pipette is two and a half cc’s. These are disposable pipettes, but I reuse them because it’s just turpentine. I use it every time. And it still works, so why throw it away? Just reuse it. All right. Pipette down. Turpentine and sugar. Get our water. Yay. You want to get enough water to get it all the way down. I can feel it’s down to about my xiphoid. A couple more sips. It’s in my stomach. Very good. All right. Put our tops back on so we don’t make too big a mess. Want to get sugar all over the keyboard here.
Shilajit Update
(6:22) Next, we have Shilajit. Yay. This is Shilajit from Russia. Not Himalayas. Russia. Why Russia? The Russian Shilajit does not have the chemical contaminants in it. Okay. So here it is. Boom. Shilajit. It is black, and it is tarry. Boom. Boom. And you can see that that is pretty gooey. Now, this is gooey because I’m in a hot environment. If you’re in a colder, northern environment, it might be more like resin. But there it is. The dose is 200 milligrams. This is probably a little bit less than 200 milligrams, but some days I take a little bit more. So that’s the way that works. This goes in there. Bam.
(7:14) As you can see, it does not readily dissolve. So we have to let it kind of just sit and dissolve. Put that right over there. Put our top on our Shilajit. Yeah. We are ready. Wow.
Immigration from Both Sides
(7:31) All right. So I’ve seen immigration from both sides now. And it’s been almost 13 years. And I have developed an amazing perspective on immigration. And I’d like to share with you so you can help view things in a way that you can positively influence your life and really move forward.
(7:57) So Joni Mitchell’s song is, "I’ve looked at life from both sides now, from win and lose and still somehow. It's life's illusions, I recall. I really don't know life at all. So I could say I've looked at immigration and still, or not even still, it's somehow the things I recall is I really understand the process now. So I'd like to share that with you.
Immigration
(8:40) So many people are familiar with the term expats. And I was really confused for a long time. Like, what's an expat exactly? And it took me years to sort out that an expat is just an immigrant. That's it, it's just an immigrant. Maybe they call them expats if they come from a more affluent country to a less affluent country. But an expat is just an immigrant. And so once I realized as an immigrant, I was like oh, so I left my country, the United States, for many reasons. But it can all be boiled down to in search of a better life. And so many people want to enter to be an immigrant in the United States because they want a better life. So my view on immigration has given me a lot of clarity and humility on the issue.
(9:40) And these lessons can be applied to your healing as well. So an American living in the United States, immigration was discussed a lot by those who made laws and by various humanitarian groups. As some people said, well, we should have more immigrants because it's the right thing to do.
(10:02) They're escaping difficult conditions. Other people say we should have more immigrants because employers want to hire them. And that would give us cheaper products. Other people say, well, we should have less immigrants because they're going to take away jobs. And so we have this conversation going back and forth and I found it really confusing.
(10:23) But why did I find it confusing? Because it really had nothing to do with the actual core issue of immigration. So I arrived as an immigrant, I think the immigrant perspective is the one to and that's the lens. The immigrant perspective through which you can see the perspective of the receiving country more clearly. So when I arrived in my new country, I was really impressed with how nice and friendly and kind people were.
(11:06) And I was also impressed at how affordable everything was and how the government was just so unobtrusive in my life. They're just like, oh, well. Well, the US it was quite different. I was registered with the government in many ways, driver's license, professional license. And I also had a lot of ways I was registered in the system. I had, oh, at the time I left, I didn't have these things. But when I was embroiled in the American lifestyle, I had car insurance, life insurance. I gave up my health insurance pretty early on in the 90s. But there are all these things and obligations, and it became overwhelming.
Today's Topic
(12:01) But today, we're going to talk about the immigration and encourage you to immigrate right there at home where you are so you can improve your health. But in my new country, I couldn't do any of these things. I chose not to get a driver's license because the driving style was way different. Professional license, forget that. So I didn't have any of these insurances and none of those things. And further, even though I did have a 16-year-old with me, I did not enroll her in school. Quite frankly, I couldn't speak enough Spanish to enroll her. I just didn't even understand the language. So also, I did not read any newspapers or listen to the radio, again, because I didn't even speak the language. Whereas in the United States, I did have access to newspapers, which I read maybe once or twice a week. And there was a radio, which I listened to, I would say, maybe at least 30 minutes a day of radio. I didn't have a TV in the United States, so nobody changed that.
(13:09) Now, in my new country, so my new country, I did not read the newspaper. I did not listen to the radio. I did not sign up for any recurring expense except paying rent. I had no certificate like driver's license or professional license and did not own a car. Also, I did not examine political candidates to see which was better. The elections happened, and I would wish the winner well and marvel at the wonderful weather and how it remained great under the new government. And my happiness soared. I mean, just blossomed. I cannot believe how happy I was.
(13:50) Now, I did notice that things were not done here the way they were done in the United States. For example, rental, totally different process. Buying a house, totally different process. Buying a car, buying groceries, totally different process. So I was accustomed to going to a store, buying what you want, and going home and preparing it. That's not the way. The way you walk down the street, you see these stands selling fruits and vegetables, and you make a mental note on your way back home, you're going to pick up what you need for the day, prepare that and eat it in the next day, the same thing. That's it. No refrigerator needed.
(14:43) Or you could just stay home, and a truck would pass by, the guy yelling out the names of vegetables, and you could stop the truck and buy what you want. I did not understand enough Spanish to realize that that's what was going on. All I know is some truck was coming by, and somebody was yelling and screaming, and I was absolutely terrified. So the first, I would say, six months. I did not understand to buy groceries from this truck but eventually I got the hang of it. Shopping for clothes, that was an eye-opener. The sizes were unrelated to the size of the garment. Interesting. And so literally you had to hold the garment up, eyeball it and decided if it was worth trying on, if the size was kind of close enough. Why was this? This is because, this is the same reason why prices are so high in the United States, by the way.
(15:47) So in the United States, all the clothes come, they're sold and what doesn't sell gets packages up and sent to other countries, like the country I'm in and the prices are very low, because the profit has already been taken off the top, so to speak. Now, what do we get? We get the clothes where the tag saying the size doesn't match the garment, right? Because everybody in the United States is trying it on, oh, I'm a size 10. They pull the size 10s off. Man, the size 10 is huge so of course it doesn't sell. And then that size 10 gets sent down here realize not to pay too much attention to the size tags and they just look at the garment, and then either try it on or don't or buy it or don't. But that basically takes a $200 dress and turns it down to maybe $10 or $15 and so you can actually look pretty snazzy for not very much.
(16:47) And then there's potholes in the streets. Private citizens would crush tile remaining after their home improvement. How do you crush tile? You get a sledgehammer and just bang, bang, bang. I've actually seen this happen. And they dump it into the potholes, no taxes needed there. If it was really bad, a foreign country would step in and pave the road better so they have more commerce, so they can move their trucks up and down the road. Amazing, and then there were bridges.
(17:21) I would marvel and point at a bridge like, wow, look at that bridge. It's a beautiful bridge. And locals would say, oh yes, that was a gift from Korea. Really? So we have a situation here, then, where taxes are very, very low. The cost of clothing is very, very low, just because it's done differently. And so on it went. It's just an endless list of things that were done differently. But I've noticed, and these things being done differently contributed to the very low cost of living. So I noticed there were many groups of immigrants that wanted to uplift the people in this new country and do things the way it was done in the United States.
(18:06) At first, I interpreted this as compassion, wanting a better life for the locals. However, over the past 12 years, I realized while it may have been well-intentioned, it was misguided and actually served to diminish the very positive reasons why those very same immigrants, call them expats, cam here; however, over those 12 years, those immigrants seeking change have mostly died or returned to the United States. Most immigrants or expats come here when they're older, like when they're 60 or 70. And so they don't last 12 years, just for that reason. So things were mostly unchanged and my happiness continues to grow.
(18:57) And I realized the cost of living was so low, like my rent was $150 for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house with a large yard and a fence. Why? Because there's no building codes or renter protection rules like the United States. I mean, there's some, but not nearly as many. And so part of the house was called a kitchen. All it had was a sink, there were absolutely no appliances. It had a sink and an outlet, that was it. The floors were poured concrete. And so to put it in English, we had under flooring, but no flooring. Electricity was not robust enough to accommodate air conditioner and modern day computers. Shower was a suicide shower. They call it a suicide shower because people commit suicide because the electrical connections are kind of shaky. And it had no adjustable temperature. The water flow was a trickle, not the flowing cascades in my home country. But all of these differences allowed me to live indoors with plenty of space in my new country on the same amount of money that would have cause homelessness in the United States I came from. As I said, it was only $150 a month for all of this and the roof was just fine. Didn't leak. Windows just fine. Doors fine.
(20:27) What about the nicest of the people? A simple act in the United States, go to a restaurant and order something. So when I got here 12 years ago, the basic rule was you would go to the restraint, you pick the main thing you want. In other words, was it chicken, beef or pork, maybe fish but pick whatever one of the four you want. And the rest was standard and included no special orders. No interrogation of the waiter staff, no question about gluten-free, organic, free-range, none of that. The ordering method at restaurants certainly lowered the stress on the wait staff and lowered costs, making the $3.50 dinners possible.
(21:07) And had I adopted the same level of involvement in voting, having government licenses, my experience in my home country would have been much different. And the essence of my newfound happiness in my new country was that I changed all of my habits, I actually changed my behavior. Now, I used my home country as a model, my new country as a model. So I found people who were happy and that was the reason why I picked this country by the way. When I visited, everyone was so happy. I found people who were happy, accepted them as they were and made no attempt to change them. Then I changed myself to exist to exist in harmony with them.
(22:03) I even adopted some of their lifestyle habits. If something is one minute, one hour, one day or one week late, I accept it and realize that whoever is responsible for making it happen is doing their best. Miracle. Guess what? Eventually, the thing happens and the person responsible is so appreciative of my patience. We have bonding, love, happiness, friendship. Amazing! So I now have a life where nothing is urgent. Nothing. Nothing. And very few things are necessary. That's another thing that I found out. So for example, I was selling books to the United States, this is 1976. And I knocked on the door, selling books to this family and they were just distraught, because they were so poor, they did not have money to buy landscaping. And they were just totally depressed, upset over this. And they were saving for their landscaping; however, here in this country, people have no landscaping in their yard, yet they spend money on fireworks to celebrate a raise. In other words, money's not gone and money's gone. And it's not available to save towards anything because they spent it immediately on a celebration of the money itself. However, a celebration of life has happened. So skip the landscaping, stop the austerity and just celebrate.
(23:41) And it's amazing when you find that you just realize. Oh, I'll just find something I'm happy about, or satisfied with, and just celebrate it. And whenever I see anyone, anything I see positive about them. I'll point it out. Like wow, that's great. Amazing. So first, I'm going to tell you what this taught me about immigration.
(24:11) First of all, as oppressed as immigrants may appear and certainly I felt I was oppressed when I left my country and arrived here, they have a big hand in that oppression. Huge. In order for an immigrant to embrace the good of their new country, they have got to change. Further, the receiving country must limit immigration, as the incoming group, when its numbers are large enough, will recreate the very conditions they are fleeing. You may not even get this, and for me it was a mind bender, that the expats, US citizens, who moved to a beautiful, picturesque place, said, oh my god, we're not safe enough, we want a security checkpoint. They literally raised month to build a security checkpoint so they could be harassed to show their papers on their way home. And then they raised money to create an organization where they could put stickers on their cards to reduce the harassment. This is what happens when you have a large amount of immigrants. They literally recreate the same problems that they left, and even then take steps to solve that same problem and recreate the same conflict. I would not have believed this if I hadn't seen it.
(25:58) So the question is how large? How large a group of immigrants is too large? That can be debated, but the point is, limiting the number of immigrants is actually the compassionate thing to do and the only way immigrants can experience the relief that they seek. So the only way you can preserve the superior conditions that the immigrants are seeking out is to limit the amount of immigrants so they actually don't alter the situation that they are entering. So how does this work for your health? Well, for those of you who are from the United States, I would like to point out that the United States actually has many countries and cultures. This may sound drastic, but move to or live among or befriend a person or people or group who have the same health feature you are seeking. For example, if you're overweight, if you're obese, start hanging out with slender people or move to a zip code or state with a very low obesity rate. If you're in an area with high violence, move to an area with low violence.
(27:08) Observe your non-violent neighbors and adopt a few of their habits. Example, I realize I cannot hang out with English speakers. They are generally overweight and every event centers around a restaurant and getting one's money's worth. Yep, one lunch with them and I've got to skip food for two days to get back on track. Now I'm not obese but I don't want to be. Another example, if you have arthritis, associate with people who do not have arthritis. Do the things they do. Eat what they eat. You will actually see your arthritis go away. Don't bring your arthritic friends with you, right? Because if you have too many arthritic friends among the non-arthritic friends, they will actually alter the behavior of the group. So you want to be outnumbered. So immigration is a good thing in small amounts and try it for your health.
(28:06) Go for it. Okay, that brings us to today's questions. We have so many questions. Okay, a good friend of mine recommended that I look you up. My husband's been fighting a staph infection for a month now. I'm very impressed with what I've heard from your so far. What is your recommendation about how to cure staph or MRSA? So I've done a whole one-hour show on this and you can find it at vitalitycycles.com and the name of it is MRSA. Is MRSA on your dinner flight? So definitely take a look at that. You should know that staph is normal, part of your normal microbiome, right? So fighting staph is a very bad idea. Even fighting MRSA is a very bad idea. Most people with MRSA don't have symptoms. If you have symptoms, there's something going on there. So watch that replay, it's at vitalitycycles.com and right now, it is free. An old doctor in Panama, Dr. William Campbell Douglas, had a newsletter for many years. He's now deceased. Yeah, he lived to a ripe old age. He said taking vitamins without trace materials won't allow the vitamins to do their job. Do you think he was right? Correct but irrelevant. So Dr. Douglas Campbell sold vitamins. So he's telling you, buy my vitamins and by the way, buy my trace minerals too. It turns out that trace materials, your body makes proteins and these proteins do stuff, make things happen but the proteins your body makes requires trace minerals in order to do the job. So you could take trace minerals and you'll have great results even if you don't take vitamins.
(29:55) If you take vitamins, there's so many things influencing how the vitamins helps you. Does the capsule dissolve? If it dissolves, is it absorbed? If it is absorbed, is it the vitamin you're deficient in? And even if it is a vitamin you're deficient in. Are you drinking enough water? So there's so many factors that govern whether or not your vitamins do their job. To single out taking trace minerals as the one determining factor is not accurate. I hope that helps. And this is our last. Oh, I can buy sunfood shilajit powder here in Dubai. It comes from Himalayas, say no more. No, you want it from Russia. Is it in powdered form? No. Is there a risk that any shilajit one buys is contaminated with heavy metals? Yes. That's why you get the stuff from Russia.
(31:03) Dr. Daniels, I'm allergic to peanuts and fish and I suspect the childhood vaccinations may be the cause. What do you think? I think they absolutely are the cause. So I did vaccinate my children, I did not. I was not aware of how bad things were, how bad vaccines were at the time and I have three children. Two of them have peanut and fish allergies. That's the bad news. Good news. They find that when they clean up their diet and don't eat anything with any additives in it, and they stay well hydrated and have regular bowel movements, their sensitivity diminishes greatly. And also that it's dose related. So now the one with peanut allergies, her allergy is dose related. So she's this much peanut butter, not a problem. That much peanut butter, she'll get a little bit of itchiness, maybe a slight rash. So that is the story, oh, I've got to answer this last question. I have triple positive stage four breast cancer. I'm on seven repurposed meds to block the metabolic pathways of cancer. So I need to stop them before starting to turn. This person's taking doxycycline, mebendazole cause negative interactions with TURP? This is amazing. So this person wants to kill a tumor fast, by the way. Okay. So she's taking drugs that interact with each other and are dangerous. And she's taking drugs in a deadly combination and a combination that will accelerate her decline. This person should be feeling pretty darn miserable by now and actually worse by the day. So she wants to know if turpentine could be added to the mix. And I would say, don't bother. What you really need to do here is stop these drugs, period. I would say that the only two that might have any merit would be the hydroxychloroquine or the ivermectin. Even then, I said or, I didn't say and so pick one, just one. Drop all of them. Just take the ivermectin and see how you feel. If you feel better, then continue with the one you feel better with. If you don't feel better, stop the one, stop ivermectin and then try hydroxychloroquine. If you feel better, continue with hydroxychloroquine. If you don't stop them all, then maybe try turpentine. Okay, that is is. We did most of the questions for today. Well, increase your immigration practices. I think you should immigrate. Good news, you can do it right there at home and improve your health. As always, think happens and we'll see you in a bit.
(0:00) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and you are listening to Healing with Dr. Daniels. And this is Sunday, June 13th, 2021. Today’s topic is "Immigration from Both Sides Now."
(0:15) Unlike Joni Mitchell, who’s seen life from both sides now, I’ve seen immigration from both sides and feel like I have a little bit of insight and clarity. So that is the topic of today’s show. I’m going to share with you how adjusting your perspective on immigration can heal you. As always, think happens. But first, we have an update on mom. Yay.
Update on Mom
(0:41) Here we are, update on mom. Okay. So mom got the vaccine. She says that she’s getting stronger, can use the bathroom by herself, and can pull herself up, stand on her feet. Her caretakers, all of them certified, licensed by the government, have never seen an ulcer heal when it was this severe. Initially, her helpers were afraid to share with their superiors how much progress she was making, and they all decided that it was okay for her to heal, and they would keep this under wraps. She does say that before, the healthcare workers, doctors, and nurses were actually worsening things by recommending pain drugs and overaggressive dressing of her wounds.
(1:35) Now that she’s got them putting the dressings on, actually, one wound went away, and they stopped dressing it at all. The other one is shrinking, and they’re just putting a very loose dressing on that wound. She says, "I just don’t argue with them, and I just refuse anything they want." Now they want her to go see a specialist because they feel like she’s making so much progress that she’s ready for surgery. She says, "Ah, no, no, no." She decides she’s lost her respect for authority, and just because someone has a degree, she’s not going to obey them.
(2:20) My sister, who lives with my mother, has also been vaccinated, and my mother is eternally grateful to her grandson, who set up a home visit for the vaccine, and she feels he is a genius and is so happy to have the vaccine. Of course, everyone’s still wearing a mask, but they’re really amazed and thrilled. What does this tell us? It tells us that getting vaccinated is a primary decision, and we should let people who want to get vaccinated get vaccinated, and people who don’t, not get vaccinated.
Vitality Capsules Update
(2:49) All right, so that’s the update on mom. She is continuing to make progress. That brings us to Vitality Capsules. I believe we have replaced one of the two ingredients that failed our final testing, and we’re hoping to get in production, cross our fingers, in the next three weeks or so. We shall see. Once we get in production, that is a process that itself takes at least a month. So we are hoping that our present stock will last until a new stock becomes available.
Turpentine Update
(3:38) Yay! And that brings us to turpentine. Now, I have to tell you, I do not like the way turpentine tastes. However, at 64 years old, I am totally thrilled with how it makes my joints feel, and it just makes my life so much easier. So I take it, and we’ll take our turpentine. Oh, there’s another update. We’ll do a turpentine, then we’ll do the next update.
(4:05) All right, first, spoon. A lot of people ask what kind of teaspoon this is. This is a U.S. teaspoon, 5 cc, 5 grams. So that’s an interpretation of what kind of size spoon it is. This is white sugar, white sugar, white sugar. Let’s find a label. Yep. Oh, here it is. Sugar. Again, label it, because who knows? Could be ascorbic acid, could be salt. Don’t know. Want to make sure we get it right. There is the sugar. And now we have turpentine.
(4:47) Bam. We’re going to suck it up. Suck it up. Nope. Didn’t go all the way. So it did not go all the way. So I just turn the dropper upside down like this, tap it down, expel some air, then turn it right side up, dip it in turpentine, and suck more up, but only up until the neck. So I only suck it up to the neck. So you look at that. I don’t know if you can see. It goes right up to the neck and no further. All right. So here is the sugar and the turpentine. We’re just going to squirt one on top of the other. Yay.
(5:28) So up to the neck of this pipette is two and a half cc’s. These are disposable pipettes, but I reuse them because it’s just turpentine. I use it every time. And it still works, so why throw it away? Just reuse it. All right. Pipette down. Turpentine and sugar. Get our water. Yay. You want to get enough water to get it all the way down. I can feel it’s down to about my xiphoid. A couple more sips. It’s in my stomach. Very good. All right. Put our tops back on so we don’t make too big a mess. Want to get sugar all over the keyboard here.
Shilajit Update
(6:22) Next, we have Shilajit. Yay. This is Shilajit from Russia. Not Himalayas. Russia. Why Russia? The Russian Shilajit does not have the chemical contaminants in it. Okay. So here it is. Boom. Shilajit. It is black, and it is tarry. Boom. Boom. And you can see that that is pretty gooey. Now, this is gooey because I’m in a hot environment. If you’re in a colder, northern environment, it might be more like resin. But there it is. The dose is 200 milligrams. This is probably a little bit less than 200 milligrams, but some days I take a little bit more. So that’s the way that works. This goes in there. Bam.
(7:14) As you can see, it does not readily dissolve. So we have to let it kind of just sit and dissolve. Put that right over there. Put our top on our Shilajit. Yeah. We are ready. Wow.
Immigration from Both Sides
(7:31) All right. So I’ve seen immigration from both sides now. And it’s been almost 13 years. And I have developed an amazing perspective on immigration. And I’d like to share with you so you can help view things in a way that you can positively influence your life and really move forward.
(7:57) So Joni Mitchell’s song is, "I’ve looked at life from both sides now, from win and lose and still somehow. It's life's illusions, I recall. I really don't know life at all. So I could say I've looked at immigration and still, or not even still, it's somehow the things I recall is I really understand the process now. So I'd like to share that with you.
Immigration
(8:40) So many people are familiar with the term expats. And I was really confused for a long time. Like, what's an expat exactly? And it took me years to sort out that an expat is just an immigrant. That's it, it's just an immigrant. Maybe they call them expats if they come from a more affluent country to a less affluent country. But an expat is just an immigrant. And so once I realized as an immigrant, I was like oh, so I left my country, the United States, for many reasons. But it can all be boiled down to in search of a better life. And so many people want to enter to be an immigrant in the United States because they want a better life. So my view on immigration has given me a lot of clarity and humility on the issue.
(9:40) And these lessons can be applied to your healing as well. So an American living in the United States, immigration was discussed a lot by those who made laws and by various humanitarian groups. As some people said, well, we should have more immigrants because it's the right thing to do.
(10:02) They're escaping difficult conditions. Other people say we should have more immigrants because employers want to hire them. And that would give us cheaper products. Other people say, well, we should have less immigrants because they're going to take away jobs. And so we have this conversation going back and forth and I found it really confusing.
(10:23) But why did I find it confusing? Because it really had nothing to do with the actual core issue of immigration. So I arrived as an immigrant, I think the immigrant perspective is the one to and that's the lens. The immigrant perspective through which you can see the perspective of the receiving country more clearly. So when I arrived in my new country, I was really impressed with how nice and friendly and kind people were.
(11:06) And I was also impressed at how affordable everything was and how the government was just so unobtrusive in my life. They're just like, oh, well. Well, the US it was quite different. I was registered with the government in many ways, driver's license, professional license. And I also had a lot of ways I was registered in the system. I had, oh, at the time I left, I didn't have these things. But when I was embroiled in the American lifestyle, I had car insurance, life insurance. I gave up my health insurance pretty early on in the 90s. But there are all these things and obligations, and it became overwhelming.
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(12:01) But today, we're going to talk about the immigration and encourage you to immigrate right there at home where you are so you can improve your health. But in my new country, I couldn't do any of these things. I chose not to get a driver's license because the driving style was way different. Professional license, forget that. So I didn't have any of these insurances and none of those things. And further, even though I did have a 16-year-old with me, I did not enroll her in school. Quite frankly, I couldn't speak enough Spanish to enroll her. I just didn't even understand the language. So also, I did not read any newspapers or listen to the radio, again, because I didn't even speak the language. Whereas in the United States, I did have access to newspapers, which I read maybe once or twice a week. And there was a radio, which I listened to, I would say, maybe at least 30 minutes a day of radio. I didn't have a TV in the United States, so nobody changed that.
(13:09) Now, in my new country, so my new country, I did not read the newspaper. I did not listen to the radio. I did not sign up for any recurring expense except paying rent. I had no certificate like driver's license or professional license and did not own a car. Also, I did not examine political candidates to see which was better. The elections happened, and I would wish the winner well and marvel at the wonderful weather and how it remained great under the new government. And my happiness soared. I mean, just blossomed. I cannot believe how happy I was.
(13:50) Now, I did notice that things were not done here the way they were done in the United States. For example, rental, totally different process. Buying a house, totally different process. Buying a car, buying groceries, totally different process. So I was accustomed to going to a store, buying what you want, and going home and preparing it. That's not the way. The way you walk down the street, you see these stands selling fruits and vegetables, and you make a mental note on your way back home, you're going to pick up what you need for the day, prepare that and eat it in the next day, the same thing. That's it. No refrigerator needed.
(14:43) Or you could just stay home, and a truck would pass by, the guy yelling out the names of vegetables, and you could stop the truck and buy what you want. I did not understand enough Spanish to realize that that's what was going on. All I know is some truck was coming by, and somebody was yelling and screaming, and I was absolutely terrified. So the first, I would say, six months. I did not understand to buy groceries from this truck but eventually I got the hang of it. Shopping for clothes, that was an eye-opener. The sizes were unrelated to the size of the garment. Interesting. And so literally you had to hold the garment up, eyeball it and decided if it was worth trying on, if the size was kind of close enough. Why was this? This is because, this is the same reason why prices are so high in the United States, by the way.
(15:47) So in the United States, all the clothes come, they're sold and what doesn't sell gets packages up and sent to other countries, like the country I'm in and the prices are very low, because the profit has already been taken off the top, so to speak. Now, what do we get? We get the clothes where the tag saying the size doesn't match the garment, right? Because everybody in the United States is trying it on, oh, I'm a size 10. They pull the size 10s off. Man, the size 10 is huge so of course it doesn't sell. And then that size 10 gets sent down here realize not to pay too much attention to the size tags and they just look at the garment, and then either try it on or don't or buy it or don't. But that basically takes a $200 dress and turns it down to maybe $10 or $15 and so you can actually look pretty snazzy for not very much.
(16:47) And then there's potholes in the streets. Private citizens would crush tile remaining after their home improvement. How do you crush tile? You get a sledgehammer and just bang, bang, bang. I've actually seen this happen. And they dump it into the potholes, no taxes needed there. If it was really bad, a foreign country would step in and pave the road better so they have more commerce, so they can move their trucks up and down the road. Amazing, and then there were bridges.
(17:21) I would marvel and point at a bridge like, wow, look at that bridge. It's a beautiful bridge. And locals would say, oh yes, that was a gift from Korea. Really? So we have a situation here, then, where taxes are very, very low. The cost of clothing is very, very low, just because it's done differently. And so on it went. It's just an endless list of things that were done differently. But I've noticed, and these things being done differently contributed to the very low cost of living. So I noticed there were many groups of immigrants that wanted to uplift the people in this new country and do things the way it was done in the United States.
(18:06) At first, I interpreted this as compassion, wanting a better life for the locals. However, over the past 12 years, I realized while it may have been well-intentioned, it was misguided and actually served to diminish the very positive reasons why those very same immigrants, call them expats, cam here; however, over those 12 years, those immigrants seeking change have mostly died or returned to the United States. Most immigrants or expats come here when they're older, like when they're 60 or 70. And so they don't last 12 years, just for that reason. So things were mostly unchanged and my happiness continues to grow.
(18:57) And I realized the cost of living was so low, like my rent was $150 for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house with a large yard and a fence. Why? Because there's no building codes or renter protection rules like the United States. I mean, there's some, but not nearly as many. And so part of the house was called a kitchen. All it had was a sink, there were absolutely no appliances. It had a sink and an outlet, that was it. The floors were poured concrete. And so to put it in English, we had under flooring, but no flooring. Electricity was not robust enough to accommodate air conditioner and modern day computers. Shower was a suicide shower. They call it a suicide shower because people commit suicide because the electrical connections are kind of shaky. And it had no adjustable temperature. The water flow was a trickle, not the flowing cascades in my home country. But all of these differences allowed me to live indoors with plenty of space in my new country on the same amount of money that would have cause homelessness in the United States I came from. As I said, it was only $150 a month for all of this and the roof was just fine. Didn't leak. Windows just fine. Doors fine.
(20:27) What about the nicest of the people? A simple act in the United States, go to a restaurant and order something. So when I got here 12 years ago, the basic rule was you would go to the restraint, you pick the main thing you want. In other words, was it chicken, beef or pork, maybe fish but pick whatever one of the four you want. And the rest was standard and included no special orders. No interrogation of the waiter staff, no question about gluten-free, organic, free-range, none of that. The ordering method at restaurants certainly lowered the stress on the wait staff and lowered costs, making the $3.50 dinners possible.
(21:07) And had I adopted the same level of involvement in voting, having government licenses, my experience in my home country would have been much different. And the essence of my newfound happiness in my new country was that I changed all of my habits, I actually changed my behavior. Now, I used my home country as a model, my new country as a model. So I found people who were happy and that was the reason why I picked this country by the way. When I visited, everyone was so happy. I found people who were happy, accepted them as they were and made no attempt to change them. Then I changed myself to exist to exist in harmony with them.
(22:03) I even adopted some of their lifestyle habits. If something is one minute, one hour, one day or one week late, I accept it and realize that whoever is responsible for making it happen is doing their best. Miracle. Guess what? Eventually, the thing happens and the person responsible is so appreciative of my patience. We have bonding, love, happiness, friendship. Amazing! So I now have a life where nothing is urgent. Nothing. Nothing. And very few things are necessary. That's another thing that I found out. So for example, I was selling books to the United States, this is 1976. And I knocked on the door, selling books to this family and they were just distraught, because they were so poor, they did not have money to buy landscaping. And they were just totally depressed, upset over this. And they were saving for their landscaping; however, here in this country, people have no landscaping in their yard, yet they spend money on fireworks to celebrate a raise. In other words, money's not gone and money's gone. And it's not available to save towards anything because they spent it immediately on a celebration of the money itself. However, a celebration of life has happened. So skip the landscaping, stop the austerity and just celebrate.
(23:41) And it's amazing when you find that you just realize. Oh, I'll just find something I'm happy about, or satisfied with, and just celebrate it. And whenever I see anyone, anything I see positive about them. I'll point it out. Like wow, that's great. Amazing. So first, I'm going to tell you what this taught me about immigration.
(24:11) First of all, as oppressed as immigrants may appear and certainly I felt I was oppressed when I left my country and arrived here, they have a big hand in that oppression. Huge. In order for an immigrant to embrace the good of their new country, they have got to change. Further, the receiving country must limit immigration, as the incoming group, when its numbers are large enough, will recreate the very conditions they are fleeing. You may not even get this, and for me it was a mind bender, that the expats, US citizens, who moved to a beautiful, picturesque place, said, oh my god, we're not safe enough, we want a security checkpoint. They literally raised month to build a security checkpoint so they could be harassed to show their papers on their way home. And then they raised money to create an organization where they could put stickers on their cards to reduce the harassment. This is what happens when you have a large amount of immigrants. They literally recreate the same problems that they left, and even then take steps to solve that same problem and recreate the same conflict. I would not have believed this if I hadn't seen it.
(25:58) So the question is how large? How large a group of immigrants is too large? That can be debated, but the point is, limiting the number of immigrants is actually the compassionate thing to do and the only way immigrants can experience the relief that they seek. So the only way you can preserve the superior conditions that the immigrants are seeking out is to limit the amount of immigrants so they actually don't alter the situation that they are entering. So how does this work for your health? Well, for those of you who are from the United States, I would like to point out that the United States actually has many countries and cultures. This may sound drastic, but move to or live among or befriend a person or people or group who have the same health feature you are seeking. For example, if you're overweight, if you're obese, start hanging out with slender people or move to a zip code or state with a very low obesity rate. If you're in an area with high violence, move to an area with low violence.
(27:08) Observe your non-violent neighbors and adopt a few of their habits. Example, I realize I cannot hang out with English speakers. They are generally overweight and every event centers around a restaurant and getting one's money's worth. Yep, one lunch with them and I've got to skip food for two days to get back on track. Now I'm not obese but I don't want to be. Another example, if you have arthritis, associate with people who do not have arthritis. Do the things they do. Eat what they eat. You will actually see your arthritis go away. Don't bring your arthritic friends with you, right? Because if you have too many arthritic friends among the non-arthritic friends, they will actually alter the behavior of the group. So you want to be outnumbered. So immigration is a good thing in small amounts and try it for your health.
(28:06) Go for it. Okay, that brings us to today's questions. We have so many questions. Okay, a good friend of mine recommended that I look you up. My husband's been fighting a staph infection for a month now. I'm very impressed with what I've heard from your so far. What is your recommendation about how to cure staph or MRSA? So I've done a whole one-hour show on this and you can find it at vitalitycycles.com and the name of it is MRSA. Is MRSA on your dinner flight? So definitely take a look at that. You should know that staph is normal, part of your normal microbiome, right? So fighting staph is a very bad idea. Even fighting MRSA is a very bad idea. Most people with MRSA don't have symptoms. If you have symptoms, there's something going on there. So watch that replay, it's at vitalitycycles.com and right now, it is free. An old doctor in Panama, Dr. William Campbell Douglas, had a newsletter for many years. He's now deceased. Yeah, he lived to a ripe old age. He said taking vitamins without trace materials won't allow the vitamins to do their job. Do you think he was right? Correct but irrelevant. So Dr. Douglas Campbell sold vitamins. So he's telling you, buy my vitamins and by the way, buy my trace minerals too. It turns out that trace materials, your body makes proteins and these proteins do stuff, make things happen but the proteins your body makes requires trace minerals in order to do the job. So you could take trace minerals and you'll have great results even if you don't take vitamins.
(29:55) If you take vitamins, there's so many things influencing how the vitamins helps you. Does the capsule dissolve? If it dissolves, is it absorbed? If it is absorbed, is it the vitamin you're deficient in? And even if it is a vitamin you're deficient in. Are you drinking enough water? So there's so many factors that govern whether or not your vitamins do their job. To single out taking trace minerals as the one determining factor is not accurate. I hope that helps. And this is our last. Oh, I can buy sunfood shilajit powder here in Dubai. It comes from Himalayas, say no more. No, you want it from Russia. Is it in powdered form? No. Is there a risk that any shilajit one buys is contaminated with heavy metals? Yes. That's why you get the stuff from Russia.
(31:03) Dr. Daniels, I'm allergic to peanuts and fish and I suspect the childhood vaccinations may be the cause. What do you think? I think they absolutely are the cause. So I did vaccinate my children, I did not. I was not aware of how bad things were, how bad vaccines were at the time and I have three children. Two of them have peanut and fish allergies. That's the bad news. Good news. They find that when they clean up their diet and don't eat anything with any additives in it, and they stay well hydrated and have regular bowel movements, their sensitivity diminishes greatly. And also that it's dose related. So now the one with peanut allergies, her allergy is dose related. So she's this much peanut butter, not a problem. That much peanut butter, she'll get a little bit of itchiness, maybe a slight rash. So that is the story, oh, I've got to answer this last question. I have triple positive stage four breast cancer. I'm on seven repurposed meds to block the metabolic pathways of cancer. So I need to stop them before starting to turn. This person's taking doxycycline, mebendazole cause negative interactions with TURP? This is amazing. So this person wants to kill a tumor fast, by the way. Okay. So she's taking drugs that interact with each other and are dangerous. And she's taking drugs in a deadly combination and a combination that will accelerate her decline. This person should be feeling pretty darn miserable by now and actually worse by the day. So she wants to know if turpentine could be added to the mix. And I would say, don't bother. What you really need to do here is stop these drugs, period. I would say that the only two that might have any merit would be the hydroxychloroquine or the ivermectin. Even then, I said or, I didn't say and so pick one, just one. Drop all of them. Just take the ivermectin and see how you feel. If you feel better, then continue with the one you feel better with. If you don't feel better, stop the one, stop ivermectin and then try hydroxychloroquine. If you feel better, continue with hydroxychloroquine. If you don't stop them all, then maybe try turpentine. Okay, that is is. We did most of the questions for today. Well, increase your immigration practices. I think you should immigrate. Good news, you can do it right there at home and improve your health. As always, think happens and we'll see you in a bit.