It is not about health

Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and you are listening to or watching Healing with Dr. Daniels. This is the Sunday, July 11, 2021, podcast. Today's title is It is Not About Health. So today, I'm going to share what people are really after and a more direct way to get it. And as always, think happens.

Okay, so now, first, of course, we have to have an update on mom. Mom is 89 and rapidly approaching her 90th birthday. We're all thrilled, and she is doing fine. She is doing her leg exercises in bed and getting herself where she can be more mobile. So she is really pretty ambitious here. It looks like she should be out of bed by her 90th birthday. So we're all excited and thrilled for her.

And Vitality Capsules. Yay! All ingredients sourced. Yay! All ingredients located. Yay! Production in progress. Yay! So we should have the new batch in about a month. Yay! I'm so excited. Vitality Capsules, of course, are the herbal blend internal cleanser that is safe and gentle enough for everyday use. Yay! I take them myself. You can find out more about Vitality Capsules at vitalitycapsules.com.

Then, of course, my progress. I'm so excited. So if you've been following the story, I am now doing gymnastics. And yes, I am 64 years old. I've been making great progress—left front splits, right front splits, backward bend bridge. But now we are going to the next level and working on cartwheels and handstands. I would like to mention that I am making progress on both and am seriously exceeding my expectations. Honestly, I never thought ever in my life I would be able to do a cartwheel. But it looks like it's materializing. Yes, I have a little bit of shoulder pain. It's this one. Yes. So I'm going to take a break from the actual cartwheels to do exercises to strengthen the shoulder. But it's a learning process, and things are moving along wonderfully. So I want to encourage all of you out there who might think you can't do these things—you really can. So just go for it. Start with where you are and take your time.

Okay, I think that covers everything. Ah, questions. We don't get to all of them, but we can get some of them. And a lot of times, I'll actually take the question topic and use it as a topic for a future podcast. You can send questions to JDAAANIELS at gmail.com. That email again is JDAAANIELS at gmail.com.

And that brings us back to today's topic, which is It is Not About Health. Not at all. It is about what you can do with the health and how doing that thing, whatever it is, makes you feel. Okay, so let's sort this out and kind of understand this.

Without a focus to direct your quest for health, you will never know if you're healthy. For example, as healthy as I am at 64 and doing all these amazing gymnastic things, there are things I'm not able to do. You know, I can't do backward somersault springs, for example. And if someone said to me, "Well, Jennifer, you can't do backward somersault springs, and you're not healthy," I would say, "Well, you know, I have some life goals here, and doing a backward somersault spring right now is not part of that. So I'm good."

Now, that sounds really absurd, right? But people are using other equally absurd measures in terms of their health. So health is not a laboratory value. 100% of people—that would be you, you, and you—have at least one abnormal laboratory value. Throughout my life, I've had at least three abnormal lab values at any point in time when my labs have been tested—at least three. And reading through today's questions, I'm reminded of two more. So probably five—five abnormal lab values. My whole life, never had normal tests. Now, I've not had a blood test in decades, actually, at least two decades. So at the moment, I don't know what my lab values are, but I can tell you in the past when I've gotten lab tests, either during medical school in my 20s or during medical practice in the 90s, never were the lab values normal. But I was doing everything I wanted to do with my life.

So I said, "You know what? I am too busy to do any follow-up testing or biopsies or anything." I did submit to one x-ray, and it was normal, fruitless. But so how do you know if you're healthy though? If you're not going to change lab values, what do you do? So I thought about this, and decades of helping people get healthy have really got me thinking about this. People would come to me with a list of ailments. I would help them with the list, and we'd cross them off. Okay, we've got this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one. And then we'd get the list down to zero. Everything on the list is addressed, and they no longer have that limitation—whether it's pain or chronic fatigue or arthritis or diabetes.

Then one thing really shook me up. It really just startled me, and I had to sort it out. And this is that many people, once they get rid of all of their health issues, they would then tell me, "Doctor, now what do I do? What do I do with my life?" I said, "What?" I was just absolutely startled. I could not, I did not understand this. And what this exposed was the misconception people have about health and the utter lack of focus.

What I told people back then, and I'm going to kind of clarify it and make it more understandable now, is: Well, just pick something you want to do and go do it. For many people, that didn't really quite register. They would say, "Well, I can't think of what I want. I don't know."

One guy, this happened—he had a very devastating illness. He'd been a high achiever, and all of a sudden he became just marginal. He could only hold low-level, minimum-wage jobs. His mental thinking wasn't clear. It wasn't what it used to be. And so he had this girlfriend. His girlfriend said, "Oh, I know you, Dr. Daniels has got to help you." And so I started working with him. We got the cleansing going, got rid of some parasites, changed the nutrition, and got him off the mind-altering drugs, and bam—he felt back to his regular self. And he asked me this question. He says, "Well, now what do I do?" I said, "Well, go for it. Be the person you know you can be. Get the higher-level job if that's what you want." And so I got an email, I think it was about four months later, telling me he'd figured it out. He was marrying this lady, the love of his life. And so I was very happy for both of them. I imagine they're still living happily ever after, but that addressed or highlighted what the real issue is. People need to pick—whether you're healthy or not doesn't matter—pick a desired experience and work towards creating that in your life.

Pick a desired experience and then focus on how that desired experience is going to make you feel once you get it. Because what you're really after is the feeling you have when you get that desired experience. Now, everyone has different desires, right? So my desire is not going to be your desire. And everyone has a different feeling they're trying to achieve. If we precisely articulate what the feeling is, it's different for everyone. But basically, it comes down to a feeling of either happiness, love, acceptance, a belonging, or that you're making a contribution either to the world or to the life of the people around you.

So that's vague, but most people can distill it down to an activity. For example, I want to hold my grandchild when he's going to be born in six months or a year. Or I want to be able to play with the grandkids I have, or I want to be able to help my kids by either watching the grandkids or maybe cooking a Sunday meal or something. So everyone can articulate. Those are just examples. Your example is going to be way different because you're a different person. But if you can focus on what the desired experience is that you want in your life, then ask yourself, "Do I have enough physical health and ability to create that?" If you do, guess what? You're healthy. Only address your health to the extent that it prevents you from achieving that experience. Then as you set that goal, imagine how you feel once you achieve that desired experience. Now, experiencing that feeling is actually the objective of life. Health is just a tool to get there.

So here's an example. You want to be there for your children. Be there for your children. I have no idea what that means. Don't even know. But for everyone, it's a different thing. So for me, for example, I have three adult children. So to be there for my children means that they can call me and talk to me, and I can, you know, hopefully give them some either useful information or some encouragement or let them know how much I care and let them know that I really believe in them and I think they can do whatever it is they have in mind that we are discussing. I'm very specific. Oh, yes, you can do this. Yeah, yeah. So if I had an affliction that caused me so much pain that I couldn't even focus on the conversation, well, that's got to be addressed. If I have an affliction that wouldn't allow me to hear their conversation on the phone, well, that's got to be addressed. So you get the idea. It's very precise. It has nothing to do with a lab value.

For example, "be there for your children." The example is that you would do it now. Now. So think of activities that you can enjoy together, ways you can encourage them, things you can do for them or say to them. Do it now. And if there's a barrier—a physical or health-related impediment—address that. If not, you're fine. You're absolutely fine. This is so, so important. There have been times in my life where I have been exhausted and had something that people call chronic fatigue. But guess what? I was able to get through my day and do what I had to do. It never occurred to me—never occurred to me—to get a lab test or consult the medical industry.

So that's what you've got to do. You've got to really make it personal, really bring it home in terms of what you plan to do with your good health. And if you're able to do all those things, that's it. You're home free. It's like, here's your get-out-of-jail-free card.

Getting things like screening tests, for example, is simply a high-tech modern-day form of fortune-telling and malingering and hypochondria. We've glorified it and ensconced it into a very profitable money-making activity. So you've got to reclaim your life and say, "Okay, it's my life, and this is what I want to do with it. Do I have a barrier to achieving this? What is that barrier? And if health is one of those barriers, remove it, fix it. Maybe finances are a barrier—fix it, remove it. Maybe you have some habits that are interfering with you achieving your goal—change them." That's the way to proceed. That is what life is really about and what health is for. Health is a tool. And because people are dynamic, the kind of health I might want is different from the kind of health that you would want.

It's like, depending on your project, you have a chainsaw, a table saw, a ladder, a measuring tape. Each one of us has different desires, a different life that we are constructing. And so we need different tools. One person might need more flexibility than another. Another might need more strength than the other. Another might need better eyesight. But everyone has things that they need in terms of their health in order to achieve their goal. This is something that I did not understand in medical school. Because in medical school, of course, everything is lab tests, this objective, you know, box. You have to be in that box in order to be healthy with all these different lab values. And so, of course, we were very young. All of the students were 22 to 40, and most of them were 22 to 26.

So the puzzle was, what about these people? These musicians, for example. If you have a musician, let's say the musician plays a string instrument. They're going to be using their fingers a lot. Maybe they're going to develop some joint issues in their fingers. And what the musician's going to think is, "Hey, wait, I have got to fix this finger issue so that I can play the musical instrument." So we young kids, medical students, would ask our professors, "Well, what do we do with these people who are abusing or extremely using their bodies?" They would just tell them to stop that activity. And I knew that that is not an okay answer for a bodybuilder, for a musician, for a dancer, for a singer. I had singers in my medical practice, for example, who had breathing problems. Well, of course, they were overusing their vocal cords and their lungs and stuff. And to tell them, "Oh, you're one of the few singers on the earth who's making a very good living singing, why don't you just quit that?" That's not okay.

So I now understand that those singers, bodybuilders, dancers, and athletes were actually correct, that they had a life that they envisioned for themselves. It was the purpose of their health to serve that ambition. If more of us follow their example and see our health as a tool to serve our ambition, we'll have a much healthier definition of health, a much more useful definition of health, a higher quality of life, and greater happiness. That is what it's all about.

Like any tool, you can use it up, you can break it, whatever. And so you can adjust how much you want to use it. For example, my health, I decided, "Okay, I'm going to do gymnastics, and I'm not going to leave the floor." So I'm not doing any balance beam stuff. I'm not getting up on a balance beam and doing flips on a balance beam. I'm not going to go that far. Each person also gets to set limits on how far they want to push or exploit their health. Right now, that's my standard, but who knows? Maybe in a year, I'll be doing balance beam flips. I don't know. I doubt it, but anything is possible.

But the important thing to understand is that your health is your servant. You are not the servant of your health. You are the one in charge. You need to take charge, and you need to understand that your health is a tool. Maintain your health the same way you would maintain the sharp edge on a knife, for example. You would never maintain a sharp edge on a machete so you could chop your onions. No. You would get a different knife, maybe a different edge, and that's the way you should see your health.

There's no way that a laboratory test could tell you if you're healthy or predict for you what your life might be or how long it might be. And doctors, if you press them, will tell you, "Well, I really can't say." Yeah. So you've got to figure out for yourself what it is you need to get through your life—not just your life, but this moment and what your next objective is.

Let's give mom as a great example. Mom's 89 years old. When she was 87, her doctors told her, "You've got to amputate that leg. Just cut it off. Done. Amputation." She realized that for her to get through her life the way she wanted to, she needed the leg. So she said, "No, no, no, no. No amputation." The leg they were going to amputate is now totally healed up. It is the leg that she is exercising so that she can put more weight on it and walk around. Now, the other leg does have a few sores on it, but they're healing up. So again, you are the boss, and your health is your servant, your tool. You decide what level, state, or type of health you need. Doctors or healers of any kind are just experts. They'll give you an opinion and a lot of information about a very small, small area, but you have the perspective of your life and where your health fits into that. That's where you are the one and the only one that can make these decisions.

Okay, well, I hope that that's been helpful. And we—oh, wait, oh, I'm sorry. We did not take our turpentine. We have our white sugar. Please label your sugar. Why? There are a lot of white granulated things in the house, and you don't want to be messing up, like using salt or something when it's really sugar you want. All right, here we go. This is turpentine. I know it's not the perfect label, but guess what? Close enough. People know it's not a beverage. It is turpentine. Beware. Then I have my little pipette. This is reusable. Well, they say it's disposable, but I reuse it. There you go. All right. So here we go. Spoon in the sugar to take a good amount of sugar. There you go. Then bam, and get some turpentine out of this bottle. I just want to show you this. You can see that it's not all the way up to the neck. So I'm going to dip it upside down. Bam. That fall back, squeeze some more air out, go back in the bottle, and get it right up there to the neck. Pow. There we go. Okay. And we're going to squirt that on there. As you can see, as we go, the sugar is going to turn a little grayish. There we go. Okay. And we have our trusty glass of water. Yay. Yay.

Now I put water in my mouth first so I can allow the water to flow over the spoon, lift up the turpentine sugar, and then I can just swallow it back without squishing it around my mouth. All right. We've got that down. Now, next is Shilla Jet. And you will see this is some gooey stuff. As you can see, I'm, you know, I'm coming way down the bottle here. This is a year and a half supply. Yeah. This is Shilla Jet. S-H-I-L-A-J-I-T. Some of you have asked for the spelling. I'll give it to you again. S-H-I-L-A-J-I-T. And this is the goo. You can tell I'm in the province because it is gooey like this. If you're up north, like maybe Canada or something, it's going to be like resin. It's going to be tough. But you can still get it out. Okay. The amount you want is 200 milligrams. And that looks like more or less 200 milligrams. You can think of it as a little less than a quarter of a quarter teaspoon. Okay. Now, we're going to take this, put it in the water, and let it dissolve. When it's dissolved, I'll stir it up and down the hatch.

Okay. So I take my turpentine about every day. Dr. Daniels, why do you do that? I do it because I stress my system a lot with the calisthenics and the workouts and exercising. It keeps the pain—it actually prevents the pain, so I don't get pain. That's another thing. I get some discomfort, but I don't get that discomfort that's in the joints. Never. Why? Because the activity increases my joint circulation. So joint space is very healthy. The area around the joint, sometimes that can be a little painful or uncomfortable right now. As I sit, I have no pain. But sometimes when I do my handstand exercises, I'll get pain in one shoulder. I realize when that happens that I need to adjust my diet to build up that piece of anatomy. But back to turpentine every day. So I take half a teaspoon every day. Now, truthfully, yes, I do miss about a day a week, just because I'm busy. The resin, I also try and take that every day. However, because as you can see, there's this extra stuff—got to dissolve it—I miss that maybe two days a week. But it still works out.

Why do I take Shilajit? Well, I take Shilajit because Shilajit provides a broad spectrum of trace minerals, which everybody needs in order for the enzymes made by your body to work properly. This is why Shilajit is known as the "destroyer of weakness." Because without Shilajit, your enzymes will work maybe at 75% of their capacity. But you add Shilajit and you can actually feel it like, "Oh, I can do more." So that's Shilajit. Now, a lot of people ask, "Is that because you drink distilled water?" Even if I did not drink distilled water, I would take Shilajit. Why? Because the reason people have a trace mineral deficiency is because their food chain is broken. Humans are designed to eat food, poop, use the poop to fertilize their plants, eat those plants, poop—you see the cycle, how the cycle goes? Right. So that way, all the trace minerals in your body are used to fertilize the plant, and you get them back when you eat the plant. Because that is not today's farming practices, they even have a farming practice called "veganics," for God's sakes. And our fields that are used for human consumption do not have human waste as a fertilizer. So that means you eat the plants, you poop, the poop does not go back to the plants. Those minerals are lost—they're gone. They're literally down the river. So because of that, the modern lifestyle we have, people are deficient in trace minerals.

Okay, that brings us to questions. Let's move our things around here and get us—so there's a click, and things are supposed to move, and that doesn't always happen. All right, so we do not have time for a lot of questions. Let's see if we can figure this out. I will do two questions today.

First question: "I have a gluten problem and started taking probiotic tablets every day. That has helped." I don't know what that means. Does that mean her gluten problem is improved but still there? Let's say that's what it means. "I want to address what I think is a parasite in my upper gastro—that would be her stomach—with everyday grapefruit seed extract capsules. So I want to address it" means she hasn't done it yet. "Alright, so I'm taking turpentine" means she has done that, "probiotics, and now I want to add grapefruit. Is this overkill?" Yes, it is. Not only is it overkill, but another thing you've done is work. How about trying something different? Alright, so what's a gluten problem? The gluten problem is actually a problem of malnutrition. It's a deficiency of the liver. Yeah, it's a liver deficiency. And so, yeah, not only is adding grapefruit overkill, but it's the wrong way to go. Go back.

Next question: Here's one that we get. You know, people really care about their loved ones, and they want to help. A lot of times they think that help means solving what appears to be the objective, obvious problem. I want to say that's almost never the case. "My sister has been in the hospital for over a year." Stop right there. She's been in the hospital for over a year. That means she prefers the company and companionship of these expert professional caregivers—that would be doctors, nurses, and orderlies—to her family. That's fine. That's her privilege, but make the observation. Don't overlook that. "We're going to call it cancer, but that cancer is just a pretense and has been getting chemo treatments for it. She just told the family the doctor said there's nothing else they could do for her." Okay, so the year has been pretty much a failure. Let's just say the chemo did not work. "How do we purge the chemo out of her and help bring her back to health?" You've missed it. No. She lives in New York City—that's good. "And I live in California"—even better—"but I want to help her any way that I can. Thank you." Okay, so you've missed the point. Totally. Your sister is seeking an emotional, spiritual experience through the hospital and through her cancer and through the chemo. For you to say to her, "We've got to purge the chemo out of her body," you're basically invalidating her chosen spiritual experience. That's the worst thing you can do for her—to tell her that she's an idiot, she's been abused and taken advantage of, and she's stupid. That is not very loving. I don't recommend it. So make no attempt to purge the chemo from her system and to bring her back to health. You need to make sure you and your sister are on the same page. I'll bet you dollars to donuts you're not on the same page. What your sister wants and craves is caring. That's the only reason she would endure for a whole year the torture of chemo—because she felt cared for. So what you really need to do is everything in your power to help her feel cared for. Maybe you can pray for her, pray with her, be kind to her, talk to her, understand what experience she was seeking in the hospital, and attempt to provide, at least on an emotional level, an equivalent positive experience for her. But if you set about trying to purge the chemo out of her system, I mean, that's worse than rubbing salt in a wound. At least it's unloving. We can say that. Don't do it. Just my advice—obviously, do what you want.

This last question... I'm going to skip over a lot of things in this, but I think this is really important, so I'm going to answer this question. "Hi, Dr. Daniels. I have a 29-year-old"—and I want you to know I had to get through the third paragraph to find out the person was 29 years old. "I have a 29-year-old son." We don't know if he lives with her or not. "And I'm 61." Okay, so like me, she waited late in life. She had this kid when she was 30, 31 years old. Unfortunate, but these things happen. "And, you know, the kid got lots of antibiotics, got tubes in his ears. He now has mood swings, eats nothing but sugar, and she has to call the police when he breaks stuff. He has lots of diarrhea, and she'd like him to go to work one day." She's pretty ambitious, but we can try vitality capsules if you think they will help him. No, they will not. He already has diarrhea. He already has his bowels moving briskly. Without getting into what his problem is, let's just go straight to the solution because we're short on time. Graham Marsala—G-R-A-H-A-M, Marsala—M-A-R-S-A-L-A. Get it. And you can use this in savory foods. Oh, he only eats a green bean casserole? Fine. Put Graham Marsala in his green bean casserole. Get some lavender oil, put it on some cotton balls, spread it around his room. Between the Graham Marsala and the lavender oil, he's going to be calm, and you won't need to call the police anymore. That's the problem. The problem is you don't want someone in your house that you have to call the police on, right? So give this guy some Graham Marsala in his food, lavender oil on cotton balls all around his room, or wherever he sleeps, or even the house.

The problem is his brain is dissolving, and it's being poisoned. He's taking psychiatric medicine. Basically, she's got a kid—his brain is dissolving, he's being poisoned, and she thinks he has a parasite problem. No, that's not the problem. She's chasing dust mites and all kinds of other crazy things, but that's not his problem. The problem is he's lacking a brain, and then what little bit he's got is evaporating. So you've got to feed him cow or pig brain and add bacon and liver to your green bean casserole. Reduce or omit the dairy. That's what you've got to do. This kid is going down the tubes, and he is going fast. Fast. So that's what you do.

Alright, that brings us to the end of today's podcast. Of course, you can send questions to jdaaniels at gmail.com. And as always, think happens. We'll see you next week.