Life's Healthy 7. Or is it?

(0:02) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels and welcome to the Healing with Dr. Daniels podcast. Today's topic is life's simple seven, not simple at all. The purpose of today's podcast is to highlight medical recommendations for being healthy.

(0:17) And the question is, are these recommendations really healthy? Do they have anything to do with health at all? And if they don't, why don't they and what's really going on here?

(0:28) As always, we have an endless source of information from the medical industrial complex itself. This is from a place called Medscape, and today's topic is Life's Simple Seven, which is not simple at all.

(0:46) This is out of New Orleans, September 10th, 2019, hot off the press. It's the American Heart Association's 2010 program for enhancing cardiovascular health in the U.S. population. And shock, shock, shock, it has fallen short—oops—far short of its lofty goals.

(1:17) New research suggests the American Heart Association is ineffective. Let's see if we can't sort this out. Out of a possible 14 points for ideal health, the average individual scores less than half that. Over an 18-year period ending in 2016, health status has actually declined, as reported here at the American Heart Association's hypertension scientific sessions.

(1:58) Now, we have to pause here. In the United States, if you are not using a prescription narcotic, heroin, or cocaine, then your life expectancy is actually increasing. And so, the American Heart Association is sounding the alarm that health status is declining.

(2:11) We can call this patently false unless you're using narcotics or heroin. If you are, none of Life's Simple Sevens are going to help you. So, we have these people in the United States called Hispanic, and then there's non-Hispanic—like everybody else. Just so you understand this nomenclature.

(2:29) This is a real issue because when you talk about non-Hispanic, Hispanic, you're insinuating racism into medicine when actually what makes one group live longer than the other is cultural practices. It's those cultural practices that need to be identified, not the color of the person's skin or the language they speak.

(2:58) Non-Hispanic white women under the age of 45 had the best scores—50% were in what we call the ideal range, 10 to 14. But no other group came close to this.

(3:12) The LS7 program was developed by the American Heart Association to track and improve cardiovascular risk and outcomes as part of its strategic impact goal for 2020 and beyond. Now, as an individual, you have to ask yourself: Will reducing your cardiac risk increase your life expectancy?

(3:28) The answer appears to be no, because the number of people classified as dying from heart disease—the number one cause of death—has not changed, yet people are living longer. So, we have to question the link between reducing cardiac risk and being healthier. Just saying.

(3:48) Demographic factors were associated with large differences in these scores. No group had optimal scores or showed a reduction in risk factors over time, though in general, fewer people are smoking. Also, compared with the earliest period, 1999 to 2004, no improvements in cardiac risk factors were observed for the later time periods—that would be after 2004.

(4:17) What would be Life's Simple Seven? Here we are. The Life's Simple Seven focuses on seven metrics—things you can measure with numbers—related to heart disease and total health: smoking, diet, physical activity, body weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose levels in the absence of pharmacological treatment.

(4:53) The 10-year goal was a 20% reduction in cardiovascular disease and stroke-related mortality by 2020 and a 20% improvement in cardiovascular health for all Americans. Individuals who achieved the seven metrics have been shown not only to have less heart disease but also less kidney disease, lung disease, and even cancer.

(5:16) One person says, "Wow, it's a way to total health." I love this. This is how everything in medicine is rolled out: "Wow, this is the best thing since sliced bread."

(5:32) What we looked at here are the factors that help determine whether people have high or lower scores on those metrics. Again, we're now looking at the scores on metrics, not the effect of metrics on life expectancy. So what's happened here very subtly is the topic has changed.

(5:56) The topic has changed from patient health, length of life, quality of life to metrics. Let's get the metrics. Let's get the numbers. Most people, even doctors, don't realize this subject change because, of course, the reason any doctor would be reading this is to figure out, "Well, how can I do a better job with my patients?"

(6:18) These variables were assessed in 32,000 participants of the National Health Nutrition Examination Survey program between 1999 and 2016. Everybody was 20 years of age and older. They had categories: non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, or Hispanic white. All of them had to be free of heart disease.

(6:38) For each item: zero points for poor, one point for intermediate, and two points for optimal. The maximum score, of course, is 14. In the analysis, average scores are below the ideal range in all demographic groups with values ranging from a high of 9.3 for non-Hispanic white females, less than 45 years of age, to a low of 6.3 for non-Hispanic black females. Scores fell dramatically with age.

(7:09) The thing to understand here is the longest-lived population in the United States is Hispanics. Non-black Hispanics, non-white Hispanics—whatever that is—that group.

(7:29) Notice that this longest-lived healthiest group in the United States does not have the highest score or the lowest score. This is a red flag, certainly at least a yellow flag, that what's being measured in these seven principles may not actually be an indication of health.

(7:55) In the analysis, average scores are below the ideal range of 10 in all demographic groups. In our multivariate analysis—statistical manipulation—we found that age was the most powerful factor.

(8:09) Age is something you can't control, right? We love that. A lot of these things they talk to you about in the medical industrial complex or with your doctor, the factors determining health are generally boiled down to things you can't control—your race, your age, who your parents were, where you were born. This is really just a ploy to create a feeling of powerlessness.

(9:11) The people who are over the age of 45 were only 10% likely to have good LS-7 scores. There's a huge age-related decline. But wait, the older a person is, the more successful they are at longevity, right?

(9:32) So if you take an 89-year-old, that person has exceeded the life expectancy of the average American, and that person, we can say, is healthy just because they even made it that far in life. But in that group of successful longevity livers, compliance with this health metric is only 10%. That alone should tell you that these metrics are suspect and should be disregarded, at least in part, if not in whole.

(9:55) You would expect if these metrics truly measured health, that as people got older, older, older, the compliance to these metrics would actually be higher and higher and higher. Because all the folks that didn't comply, right, they died because the metrics truly measured health. So here's another red flag.

(10:23) LS-7 scores were higher in non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics than in non-Hispanic blacks. Well, you only have three groups, right? So two groups have to be higher than the third. Women scored higher than men, and better educated and higher income participants scored better.

(10:50) The strongest variables were as follows: college degree, four times more likely to have a good score; income more than 400% of the poverty level, 2.8 times as likely to have a good score; and women gender, 1.37. Non-Hispanic black? It's a negative predictor. If you have brown skin like me, you only have a 44% chance of having a good score. If you're more than 45 years old, your chance of having a decent score is less than one-ninth of the population.

(11:37) Individuals with health insurance did not fare better than those without. In other words, health insurance does not produce better health even by their measure. And they made up the measurement because health insurance does not seem to prevent problems like heart disease.

(12:05) Compared with non-Hispanic whites, who had the highest average score, non-Hispanic blacks had much lower scores. Hispanics, on the other hand, had scores comparable to non-Hispanic whites despite having less income, less education, and less health insurance.

(12:30) So we know then that Hispanics have got it where it counts. They actually live seven years longer than the average American. And they do it even though they have less money, less education, and less health insurance.

(12:52) So this is a clue that getting more education, getting more income, or getting more health insurance is not the way to better health. Now, if you want to have more income, there's nothing wrong with more money. If you want to have an education, nothing wrong with more education. But realize that it's not going to make you healthier. It may make you happier, but it's not going to make you healthier.

(13:08) This may be partly explained by the better nutrition documented among Hispanics than among non-Hispanic blacks. You have to ask yourself, how can you have better nutrition on a poverty budget? That would be a good question to ask. Obviously, it's possible because these Hispanics, who have a very low income level, are doing very well.

(14:39) Despite similarities in socioeconomic status, the nutrition among Hispanics is higher. The people in the study raise their own red flag and say, this is something important to understand because we often link nutrition to education and income, and those are not necessarily linked.

(14:54) The findings highlight the need for culturally tailored and complementary public and population health programs. Now again, the Hispanics fall through the cracks in general and don't participate in these programs. But these findings suggest beginning early in life to promote healthy lifestyle patterns and timely access to and adherence with evidence-based care.

(15:26) We have a population—the Hispanics—who, for whatever reason, appear to be noncompliant and even healthier. So let's take a closer look at these risk factors. I think it's a good thing to do.

(16:14) First is smoking. I think everyone can agree that cigarette smoking is bad. The Surgeon General has advised against it. It has been linked to about 400,000 deaths a year. So we can say smoking is bad news.

(16:33) What about diet? Pretty much every health diet under the sun has been debunked. What does that mean? It's been shown to be dangerous or harmful in certain groups of people. The diet recommendations produced by organizations, in general, have not been beneficial. So complying with dietary guidelines is probably a bad idea.

(17:00) Physical activity. More than one person, Jim Fix included, has dropped dead during or immediately after their daily exercise. So we know that aggressive physical activity is not beneficial. But even the medical industrial complex has done substantial research on this matter. For every hour you spend in physical activity, your life expectancy is extended by one hour. So the investment in physical activity does not increase your discretionary time on this earth.

(17:47) I know many people now who are over 80 and they don't exercise. In fact, they're conspicuously lazy, you could say. So physical activity, which they say is a positive thing, is most likely negative.

(18:01) What about body weight? Hispanics have the highest obesity rate in the United States, yet they live seven years longer. So maintaining ideal body weight really can't be used as a direct measure of health.

(18:28) Cholesterol. The doctors probably told you to keep it under 200. However, there is no evidence that lowering your cholesterol extends your life. In fact, there's substantial evidence that taking cholesterol-lowering medications or keeping your cholesterol low below 200, no matter how you do it, actually shortens your life expectancy.

(19:09) Blood glucose levels. This is another one that's in dispute, even in the medical industrial complex. If your blood pressure levels are slightly elevated, called pre-diabetes, any treatment or intervention actually shortens your life expectancy.

(19:09) So we have here seven metrics: smoking, diet, physical activity, body weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose. It appears that at least four, if not five, of these seven are not predictors of health or longevity. In fact, the only one that's a predictor is blood pressure.

(19:38) People with elevated blood pressures do not live as long as people with blood pressures in the normal range. That is documented. What's also documented, though, is that blood pressure medications do not close that longevity gap.

(20:00) While you can make the case for maintaining normal blood pressure, you cannot make the case for medical intervention. And then, of course, smoking—yes, that definitely lowers your life expectancy. So we have seven measures. Of the seven, only smoking and blood pressure are proven to shorten life expectancy.

(21:00) What's this mean? You may have to be a little bit skeptical of these government guidelines and where they get them from. As they say, dot, dot, diddy, dot, dash, darned if I know. So these LS7 focus on seven metrics actually cannot be expected to increase life expectancy because many of them don't correlate with people who have achieved longevity.

(21:32) Even in their own study, they say the older a person is, the less the compliance is with these factors. Yet, hey, you've got living proof—the person's 90 years old.

(21:51) I use my mother as an example. Mom doesn't smoke, got that. Her diet—she eats whatever she wants, but she only cooks at home. She eats her cooking. Physical activity? None. Body weight? Mom was slightly overweight all her life. Blood pressure? A little high. Cholesterol? A little high. Blood glucose levels? A little high. How old is Mom? 89 years old. Just a data point pulled out of the air.

(22:14) What they really should do is take a look at people who are 89 years old and see where they fall on these metrics. One conspicuous thing that's not here is alcohol intake. There's got to be an unsafe level of alcohol intake. It's certainly responsible for a lot of deaths, but it is not on the list.

(22:29) What is a person to do? I think the best thing to do is take a look at the people who are the longest-lived—Hispanics—and follow their metrics because they're living seven years longer than the average American.

(22:47) What do they have? They have no health insurance. They're poor, but hey, you don't need to give away everything you own. But I would recommend you look at what you're spending your money on because that's what's shortening your life. Take a look at what you're spending your money on and say, "If I was poor, what things in my house would not be here?" That's where you're going to find the things in your life that are shortening your life.

(23:16) What else do we know about Hispanics? They're not educated. What's the point of education? How can that even be a factor? The answer is a lot of education is cultural propaganda. If you look at the cultural practices that colleges endorse or encourage, you can see immediately a lot of practices that are not healthy.

(23:37) For example, it turns out having your first baby as a teenager reduces your risk of breast cancer fivefold. Amazing. Obviously, if you get an education, you're going to be putting off your childbearing and you're going to increase your risk of breast cancer.

(24:09) Another thing about Hispanics is they do not have access to healthcare. Yep. That may be the one determining factor that contributes to their longevity. So that would be the thing to do—look at a group that experiences longevity and then see what their metric profile is and emulate that.

(24:45) These metrics do not correlate with longevity. We know that because the older a person is, the lower the probability is that they're adhering to these metrics. So what's a person to do? Ignore these metrics.

(25:08) The only one worth paying attention to is smoking. Quit your smoking. If you can't quit, vape. If you don't want to vape, then switch to organic cigarettes.

(25:23) And your blood pressure, that is just a marker for processed food in your blood vessels that's clogging up your blood vessels. You can just go to vitalitycapsules.com and get your free report, The Candida Cleaner, and there's a diet in there that will help you unplug your blood vessels.

(25:43) As usual, first, we're going to take our turpentine and then we're going to answer some questions. We have our sugar, yay. Our turpentine, yay. And I have a little dropper here.

(26:05) We're just going to fill this dropper up because once this dropper is filled up, well, it's half a teaspoon. There we go. Turpentine on that. Could you see the turpentine? There we go.

(26:48) I do not eat or lick the turpentine off my lips. If it's a little bit stuck on there, I'm like, "No, we don't do that." Then we're going to take our Shilajit. I take it because it's an excellent trace mineral source.

(27:07) There we go. It is gooey. We're going to put that in our water, let it sit while we answer questions, and then we will get back to that and drink it right down.

(27:27) Now, we're not able to get to all of the questions because we have a lot of questions. If you feel your question is an important one that needs to be addressed, appointments are available at vitalitycapsules.com forward slash appointment.

(27:49) I have a monthly program where I educate you in the natural healing space, how to handle health situations at home, and how to avoid the natural healing pitfalls that can actually ruin or destroy your health. Information about that is at vitalitycapsules.com forward slash heal at home. Of course, you can get the free report on turpentine and how to apply it in your life at vitalitycapsules.com.

(28:18) All right. Let us see. We have questions. Yeah, we have questions.

Kevin asks if it makes sense that topical iodine might help reduce something possibly caused by its atomic cousin, bromine. It does make some sense, but the question is, does it really work? The answer is, I don't really know. However, stopping the bromine in your diet and cleansing definitely works.

Marie asks what my thoughts are on making a show or creating a program for a healthy weight loss plan like when it's okay to do a water fast, juice fast, fruit fast, and so on. Thank you. Yes, actually, I do have a weight loss program. It's called Weight Loss Now, a 911 Weight Loss Now. I'll put a link about that so people can get that.

Debbie asks about gluten-free oats. All oats are naturally gluten-free. However, some oats are being grown in fields where wheat was planted the year before. So some oats are contaminated with wheat, but 100% pure oats are always gluten-free.

Jeanette asks about her mother getting headaches and the baby getting fevers every month or twice a month. How can this be avoided? The mother needs to detox. She needs to change her diet and maybe do some liver flushes. The problem is not due to hormones in the mother's milk. It's due to toxins, chemicals, and poisons, basically.

Christy asks about being on a whole food plant-based diet but still experiencing hot flashes while using soy. If you're eating soy, that can cause hot flashes as well. You need to take a closer look at your whole food plant-based diet and eliminate all the processed stuff. That would be the coconut sugar, the coconut oil—all the processed stuff—because that's what's giving you a problem.

Heather says, "We've been off gluten, dairy, soy, corn, coconut oil, and processed sugar, meat, fish, and so on for a year. We juice a lot with smoothies, raw and cooked. We eat whole foods, vegetarians, fruit, potatoes, beans, mushrooms, avocados, herbs, and so on, no processed foods, and a little bit of grains. Maybe that's rice. Both my boys' bellies bloat after they eat anything. I took them off anything that could be inflammatory or harmful. We take your vitality capsules and poop three times a day. My kids had skin issues, but that has healed, but the bloating and undigested food in their stool will not resolve. I tried just smoothies, but that still bloats them. Food combining, I experimented with two, and they seemed to bloat. What do you think is wrong, and what can we do?"

The immediate thing to do is add fennel seed to their diet. Just give them fennel seed to chew on, just like candy, and that will help with the bloat. The diet—you need to add back maybe a little bit of liver for the guys, for the kids, and that'll help with the bloating and with their digestion.

Etta says, "My question is if I'm drinking enough water, and I have three or more bowel movements every day as I take my vitality capsules. Excellent. I feel good, but I have numbness and tingling and vibrations down the left side of my body. I have them in my arm and to my fingers. I also have tingling down my left leg and to my foot. Sometimes it's an uncomfortable feeling in my chest as well. Thank you for your consistent help."

The issues you're having appear to be electrical, and in your body, electrical issues are handled by the electrolytes. So I would say add a little more—actually a lot more—salt to your food and see if that tingling goes away. If that doesn't do it, then add some fat, like maybe some bacon.

Paula says, "Hi Dr. Daniels, what should a mother advise her 18-year-old daughter regarding birth control methods? Her father believes she should start the contraceptive pill right now." That would probably make him feel better. But taking the contraceptive pill is linked with getting breast cancer later in life. And having a baby right about now is linked with not getting breast cancer later in life. So actually her getting pregnant now would be the healthiest thing she could do. And I would say to you and your husband that taking care of a grandchild at this point in your life is far easier than nursing her through breast cancer 25 years in the future. That's what I would say. So I would give her the talk that sex is her decision. And if she gets pregnant, it would be better for her to have the baby, give it up for adoption, breastfeed her for six months first, and then she's got all the health benefits of that. After that point, after she has the baby, use abstinence—like no sex—or use a diaphragm.

Rosalie asks, "What causes interstitial cystitis? So interstitial cystitis is caused by toxins and chemicals that are being stored in the lining of the bladder. Why do foods trigger the pain? Because those foods are processed, basically. That's one reason. Another reason is some foods, like dried fruits or nuts or crackers, cause dehydration and increase the concentration of chemicals entering the bladder. Is there a neurological problem? No.

Mojisola says, "I am excited because I've been gluten-free for seven years and started getting pains again early this year. Then I did the candida cleanse and felt like a whole new me, even better than when I stopped eating gluten. Anyway, I recently moved to West Africa, and since I've been feeling so good using turpentine, I decided to try eating a wheat baguette again. I ate some and did not feel sick at all. So I'm thinking, either I was reacting to the chemicals used in harvesting wheat in the U.S., or my sickness was always because of parasites, candida overgrowth, and an unhealthy gut environment." Exactly. So your sickness was always because of the unhealthy gut environment.

(37:42) "I've been using turpentine as a malaria preventative. I'm feeling great, haven't gotten malaria. What are your thoughts on malaria healing and prevention without pharmaceuticals?" Apparently, it seems possible. You're not the first person who said that turpentine has really helped them cope with malaria. "The candida cleanse changed my life, gave me my life back. Thank you so much for your work." You are welcome, Mojisola. And those of you who are listening, you can experience the same benefits. Go to vitalitycapsules.com and get your free report, The Candida Cleaner.

Back in the mid-nineties, another medical maverick said taking vitamins without minerals was useless. Do you agree? I'm betting you do. So you would have lost that bet. There are many sources for minerals. And maybe what the medical maverick was saying was that if you're on a vegetarian diet, taking vitamins without minerals is useless. That would be true. But if you're on a meat-based diet, then all the minerals are right there in the meat. That's how the animal was able to live.

My seventh week of my keto diet is going well for me after the first few weeks since turpentine is soaked into white sugar. I wonder if this would be okay. Sugar's a no-no on a keto. Actually, it does seem to be okay. So I would give it a try with the sugar. If you don't like that, then you can mix the turpentine with castor oil and take it topically. And people are experiencing wonderful benefits with that. Thank you so much for all you do.

This person asks about pain. "I'm just wondering what I could do to heal my pain. I have four kids. Pressure is directing me, which means the uterus is gone. Ovaries are there. And back surgery. I hate medications, and that's all the doctors offer. I would love to schedule a consult, but funds will not allow. I did order the vitality capsules. Praise God. Any advice would be greatly appreciated."

We have to kind of read into this. Since this person had back surgery, we have to guess the pain is back pain. Back pain is a collagen issue, and it's why surgery doesn't help. She should add chicken feet to her diet. Chicken feet, Monday, Wednesday, Friday—a quarter to a half pound—and obviously have that with plenty of water, vegetables, and rice.

Christina asks about a few spots on her arm and stomach that a nurse described as macules. They're small, red, and not flat. "I've had them for at least 10 years. Do you know what causes them?" If you've had them for 10 years, they're really not anything to worry about, but let's just say you want to get rid of them. Applying castor oil from the waist down for four days, and then head to toe, actually usually causes them to fall off.

David asks how long Shilajit is okay to consume after the package date. Does it go bad or is it just less potent? Shilajit never goes bad. Shilajit is already millions of years old. There's an expiration date on the Shilajit just because you have to put an expiration date on supplements. This is a product that is literally millions of years old, and that's how nature made it. So it never expires. It will be good long after you are deceased.

Aaron asks about the turpentine diet and says he's been working to complete this diet for the needed amount of time so he can take the turpentine. It has been unsuccessful at making it an entire five weeks. What you can do is you can just go halfway in the diet, take the meats you're already eating and cut them in half, and then make sure you're pooping three times a day and you're well hydrated, and it should work out pretty well.

Mania says, "Hello, Dr. Daniels. Thank you so much for the information as a PDF about candida that I received to my email. Very interesting. I would very much like to try this turpentine therapy to get rid of my horrible candida that sucks the life out of me. I've lived in Sweden and have had chronic fatigue syndrome for seven years now. We can just stop right there. Of course, she's been on sick leave for seven years, but chronic fatigue, seven years. The quickest way to get rid of your chronic fatigue is not the turpentine, but calf liver. So eat some liver."

Gabriel asks if turpentine can be used for a four-year-old child with parasites or candida. How long and what is the protocol? Go to vitalitycapsules.com and download the report. It talks about child use there, but the answer is yes. In the United States, in populations where turpentine is used, they generally start giving it to kids as young as two months of age.

Fiona asks if taking Senna continuously makes the bowel lazy. No. Sitting makes the bowel lazy. So our cultural practice of sitting, our cultural practice of not drinking enough water—those are things that make the bowel lazy.

Fiona also asks if vitality capsules should be taken every day of the week or just the days she takes pine oil every day of the week to keep the bowels flowing. No. Can I take turpentine with food-grade hydrogen peroxide? The answer is no. Turpentine depends on an acidic environment in your stomach. Hydrogen peroxide makes that environment alkaline, so you just have to make up your mind which one you want to use.

Ricardo asks what can be done for bad feet, thick discolored nails, and skin peeling. The quickest thing to do, Ricardo, that's going to improve your health is to soak in a gallon of distilled water with a quarter cup each of apple cider vinegar, honey, and salt. Use warm water, like 115 degrees or so, and soak it for about half an hour. Then just get a towel and rub all that dead skin off. Then, there's something called a foot file. You can use a foot file to get more of the dead skin off and even file back those nails. That would be an immediate solution. Then, of course, take a look at your diet and fix your diet. You can go to vitalitycapsules.com and download the Candida Cleaning Report, and that will give you some ideas of what direction to go in.

Some of these questions are really detailed and have a lot of bits and parts to them. It's really better, Patricia, just to make an appointment, and we can address all these things.

Annie asks, "I have a hypothyroid problem. I like to replace Synthroid with natural medicine because Synthroid does have many side effects. Thank you so much." Sincerely, Annie. Annie, you can get ThyroGold. It's over the counter. Buy it online and use that to replace your Synthroid.

Evo says, "I'm very impressed with you. I'm currently dealing with pre-diabetes." Evo, you don't have diabetes. Forget it. Not a problem. Benign, that's harmless. Benign prostatic hypertrophy, that's harmless. We're going to put that on this side as well. Erectile dysfunction, okay, and painful urination, dribbling, and other problems associated with an enlarged prostate. The worst problem is the painful urination. I know you said stop all processed foods, but I like milk with my tea or coffee. You said almond milk is not good, but what about coconut milk? What about coffee? Exactly, Evo. I think you just need to man up and skip the whole experience. Skip the tea, coffee, and milk. Just skip it all. Let's say you can't do that. You can get sunflower seeds, puree them in water—one cup water to one cup sunflower seed. Puree it really fine and smooth, and that makes a nice milk. It even tastes like milk.

(49:23) That is it for the questions we're able to answer today. Thank you very much for listening. Remember, you can have support either through an appointment at vitalitycapsules.com forward slash appointment, our monthly educational group at vitalitycapsules.com forward slash heal at home, or the Candida Cleaning Report at vitalitycapsules.com, which is totally free. As always, think happens, and we'll see you next week.