FDA; Protector or Enabler of Harm

(0:02) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and welcome to Healing with Dr. Daniels. This is the September 29th Sunday edition. All right, today's topic is "FDA: Protector or Enabler of Harm."

(0:25) So today, I'm going to look at the recent outbreaks of deaths—yes, you read that right, deaths—due to e-cigarettes. This isn't so much an exposé to accuse companies of anything but a look at the system of regulating materials or substances for human ingestion and the effect that system has when imposed on a widely used substance.

(0:59) Okay, so what prompted today's topic? As always, a missive—a notification to all the doctors of the world—sent by Medscape. And it says the FDA, that would be the Food and Drug Administration of the United States, launches a criminal probe as vaping-related illnesses top 500. In other words, more than 500 people have become sick. But before we go too far, we have got to take our turpentine.

(1:38) Let's see, we've got some turpentine. No spoon? Let's get our spoon. Okay, we're in business. We have our white sugar—yay. We have our turpentine. Since I live alone, we have an unlabeled bottle because I put it in there, and I know what it is. And we have our dropper. I like to take half a teaspoon at a time. I like to take it most days, but sometimes when I'm too busy, I don't get around to it. So it's nice to have this show as a reminder to be sure, at least on this day, I take it.

(2:42) Okay, we are going to put this sugar down. There we go. And I'm going to squirt that there. Squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt. There you go. As you can see, as it says in the report, not all the sugar is soaked. Then we have a little water here. I like to put a little water in my mouth first to help things slide off the spoon easier. Then because I drink distilled water, I use Shilla Jet—gummy, tarry, tastes like tar. And we just give up an itty bitty bit here. Yay. And as you can see, there it is on the paddle, and we're going to put it in the water and let it dissolve. Hopefully, I will get around to drinking that before the end of today's show.

(3:49) And thank you to all of you who sent me good wishes for my cold. It is much, much better. My secret weapon? Cinnamon tea.

(4:08) All righty. So what is the situation when more than 500 people are ill and several are dying? I'd say pretty much bigger than Ebola. Yeah, this is big. No 21-day home quarantine, no. Okay. So this was sent to your doctor if he chose to read it, but he did receive it. An update on the vaping crisis.

(4:35) Federal health officials said today—today being September 19th, this is hot off the press—that as of September 17th, the number of confirmed and probable cases of lung injury associated with e-cigarettes and vaping products has climbed to 530 in 38 states and one territory, prompting the FDA to launch a criminal investigation into possible causes. Why do we have to presume crime? I mean, can't we just look for the cause? Whatever. Sadly, seven patients from six states have died as a result of their illness, and we do expect others. Let's not get too positive here, said the principal deputy director of the CDC. That would be the Centers for Disease Control. She said the Centers for Disease Control will update case counts every Thursday going forward. That's once a week.

(5:43) Earlier this week, the CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center to help coordinate the investigation into the growing number of cases of severe lung illnesses linked to e-cigarette use. Now, I want to point out that these are what you can refer to as acute poisonings. These individuals likely died not from cumulative use over time, but from some immediate ingredient or feature of whatever vaping they were using.

(6:25) The exact cause of vaping-related lung illnesses remains elusive. What that means is, based on known ingredients in the vaping cigarettes, there's not an ingredient whose known historic profile would lead to lung illness and death on this sudden a level. The investigation is dynamic and complex. I wish we had more answers. You have six dead bodies, right? What brand of vaping were they using? This is, like, if you ask me, pretty straightforward, but what the heck? What do I know?

(7:16) She emphasized that no consistent e-cigarette or vaping product, substance, additive, or brand has been identified in all cases, nor has any one product or substance been conclusively linked to lung injury. So in other words, these are vaping-related deaths. They're presuming. We have to say presumption because they're telling you that there is no ingredient in the vaping solutions used by these dead people that their death could be attributed to.

(8:03) All right. So let's put this in English. Many patients report using multiple types of products, some containing THC, that would be marijuana, plus nicotine or nicotine only. Based on available data, three-quarters of the cases are males. Two-thirds are 18 to 34 years of age. Sixteen percent are younger than 18—that means that their use is clearly illegal because it's prohibited to sell vaping to minors—and 17% are over the age of 35. More than half the cases are under 25 years of age. Okay. Patients typically have reported cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea, as well as tiredness and fever before their collapse. The CDC continues to recommend that people consider not using e-cigarette products while investigations are ongoing. FDA's law enforcement arm is involved.

(9:09) So the Director of the Center for Tobacco Products at the FDA said agency scientists are now analyzing 150 vaping product samples for a broad range of chemicals, including nicotine, THC, other cannabinoids, cutting agents, diluents, additives, pesticides, opioids, poisons, and toxins. And so we expect the poisons, toxins, opioids, diluents, and other agents might be the cause here because the explicit ingredients such as THC or nicotine or even glycerin cannot have been expected to cause this degree of death or illness. Just saying. Zeller also said the FDA has activated the Incident Management Group, which will serve as the agency's focal point for emergency management and will coordinate information gathering and sharing within the agency and between the FDA, CDC, and states. He also announced today the FDA's official Office of Criminal Investigation, the agency's law enforcement arm, began parallel investigative efforts shortly after the vaping-related illnesses surfaced. So they suspect a crime, some type of crime, a law that may have been broken, possibly an intent to do harm.

(10:35) The Office of Criminal Investigation has special investigative skills, and the focus of their work is to identify what is making people sick, as well as a focus on the supply chain. The Office of Criminal Investigation is not pursuing any prosecutions associated with personal use of any controlled substance in these cases, Zeller said. In other words, they're not going to prosecute any of the minors who were using vaping products illegally. Read between the lines. CDC and FDA urge the public to report unexpected health problems or product issues related to tobacco or e-cigarettes to the FDA using the online safety reporting portal. They have a clickable link.

(11:22) Last week, the CDC published an interim case definition for confirmed and probable severe pulmonary disease associated with e-cigarettes. So, it's always nice when they define what a case is.

(11:54) So, the person has to be using an e-cigarette during the 90 days before they got sick. And the person has to be using an e-cigarette to be pulmonary infiltrate—that means chest X-ray. The only way you see the infiltrate is on a chest X-ray. Or ground glass opacities on a CT scan. So you can get a chest X-ray or a CT scan, depending on your budget. And so absence—that means not there—lung infection on initial evaluation. So when they first show up at the medical facility, emergency room, or whatever, there has to be no lung infection. And no evidence in the medical record of alternate plausible diagnosis, like heart disease or cancer going on or something. That's a definite case. Confirmed. Probable. Using an e-cigarette or dabbing 90 days before and pulmonary infiltrate and an infection. So the infection is identified. Maybe it was the infection and not the e-cigarette. So those are two. Probable and confirmed.

(13:13) Okay. That seems pretty simple. So now, let's go back to what happened. I mean, the FDA is on the case. The FDA is regulating e-cigarettes. Shouldn't that make them safer? So when did the FDA start regulating e-cigarettes? How did they get this authority? And more precisely, how did they exercise it, right? Inquiring minds want to know. Well, once upon a time, a long time ago.

(13:50) So 2016 is when the FDA started promulgating rules concerning e-cigarettes. And the Deming Rule, May 5th, 2016. But it all started before that. How did the FDA get authority to regulate vaping products? And here we have it. June 22nd, 2009, by President Obama. The Food and Drug Administration's mandate to regulate vapor products had its origin in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The legislation was created with the cooperation of—wait for it—tobacco company Philip Morris. And so you had the competitor, vaping. And so Philip Morris writes legislation governing its competitors. Okay. Got that.

(14:52) And of course, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. It easily passed Congress with bipartisan support and was signed into law in 2009. Now, the FDA pretty much lay dormant, didn't really do much until—well, first of all, let's say the Tobacco Control Act grandfathered all cigarettes already available for sale, but created difficult barriers to any new products that might attempt to enter the market. The act effectively protected existing cigarette brands from future competition, not just from other cigarettes but also from low-risk nicotine products that might threaten the tobacco companies down the road. So one skeptical senator called it the Marlboro Protection Act.

(15:50) So in addition to existing products, the act gave the FDA the power to deem any new product containing nicotine made or derived from tobacco to be a tobacco product. That meant the FDA could grant itself the power to regulate any product it decided met the standards laid out in the Tobacco Act without further oversight from Congress. So what happened then is in 2016, on May 5th, the deeming rule is the regulation that gives the FDA authority over vapor products. The first version was a long document, 500 pages, double-spaced, and as they made their way through it, they realized the FDA would impose a hard stop on the independent vaping industry two years after the rule took effect.

(16:50) On August 8th, 2016, the agency would require the submission of complex and expensive applications to prove the existing products are appropriate for the protection of public health, and there was no assurance that those applications would be approved. The only products that would be spared the process of pre-market approval were those that had been on the market unchanged since February 15th, 2007, the so-called predicate date named in the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, and of course, no such products existed, which meant every single vaping product had to fulfill the criteria of producing the burdensome paperwork, the submission of complex and expensive applications to prove that their product was appropriate for the protection of public health.

(18:00) All right. Now, the FDA admitted the regulations would cause more than 99% of vaping manufacturers to exit the market, but wait, we have to ask ourselves, how many deaths were there from vaping prior to 2016? Anybody? Anybody? Guesses? Zero. None documented. There was just the speculation that vaping would cause lung irritation. There was speculation that vaping would cause different discomforts and annoyances, but there were no deaths.

(18:43) So what they did, you have an industry with a product that has produced no deaths, and you make a ruling that puts 99% of those individuals out of business, and there was no product being produced that caused death. Just say it. All right. So you take it to market, not killing anybody, and put 99% of people out of business. Okay. So this is one of the first steps in taking a perfectly safe material and making it unsafe. You take all the people who are creating it, making it without harm, and you shut them down. Then you create a super expensive process open to, of course, the high-budget competitors—in this case, cigarette industries—to just move in and just basically take over the market. And so this is—let's just see how that process worked out.

(20:07) So in this article—this is Vaping360, who wrote this—what they're going to do is talk about the history of the regulation. Now, I'm going to fast forward a little bit here because I'm a little impatient, that's all. So if we go back to December 2018. Can we go back further? So September 2018, the FDA calls teen vaping an epidemic—epidemic. And the FDA commissioner at that time issues a statement calling teen vaping an epidemic and urges the e-cigarette industry to address the problem or risk having their flavored products pulled from the market. So we have what we might want to call a threat.

(21:12) Then in September, the FDA conducted an unannounced inspection of a vaping company, Juul—J-U-U-L—Labs in San Francisco headquarters, seeking more information about the company's sales and marketing practices. And they collected over a thousand pages of documents.

(21:57) Now, an important element in the market happens in December of 2018. So in December 2018, the FDA takes on an investor that would be Philip Morris, who buys a 35% stake in Juul. And so here Juul is, they're being bothered, let's say, by the FDA. And so they take on an investor that would be Philip Morris. And Juul controls quite a bit of the U.S. market.

(22:53) Let's see how much of the market they control. The second people in the market, their competitors, own 10% of the market share in 2018. And it's Vuse—V-U-S-E—and they're owned by R.J. Reynolds. So we have the top two sales individuals in the market owned by cigarette companies. What do we know about cigarette companies? They took a perfectly harmless product, called tobacco, infused it with numerous chemicals, and created a product that is legally responsible for the deaths of more or less 400,000 Americans a year. So not that their intentions are anything but pure, but they have a known record of producing dangerous products—just saying. So this happened in December of 2018. Now, in 2016, by the way, the FDA outlawed the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. And then it went on in March of 2019 to ban fruit-flavored vaping products.

(24:10) So you've got all the safe producers—the known safe producers of this product—boom, got rid of them. Then you have known producers of deadly dangerous products taking over companies that were producing safe products. All right. I tell you, you cannot make this up. This is pretty impressive.

(24:56) So November, Juul shuts down its social media accounts, and it accepts, you know, ownership—35% ownership stake offer by British American Tobacco. I'm sorry, by Philip Morris. So Philip Morris now owns 35% of Juul.

(26:00) Then in March of 2019, FDA says, "Hey, you can't sell these flavored products. You can only sell mint, nicotine, and plain." All right. And health experts sue the FDA over the delay of e-cigarette review. This is March of 2019. Still no deaths from e-cigarettes. Okay. Then on March 3rd, 2019, the FDA announces an investigation into a potential link between seizures and vaping.

(26:42) So we get rid of all the healthy providers, we move in the known purveyors of deadly products, and we have seizures more or less three months later. All right. San Francisco, on June 25th, 2019, bans the sale of e-cigarettes. July 12th, a district judge in Maryland gave e-cigarette companies until May 12th, 2020—that's a whole year—to submit pre-market tobacco applications to the FDA for approval. July 23rd, FDA launches anti-vaping ads to combat teen vaping. July 24th, Facebook and Instagram restrict e-cigarette content. July 26th, the World Health Organization gets in the act and issues a global tobacco epidemic report and specifically names Juul as one of the new industry players that continues to subvert tobacco control, whatever that means.

(27:52) The FDA says it's received 127 reports of vaping-related seizures. This is August of 2019. And the FDA releases a statement saying it's now received a total of 127 reports of seizures or other neurological symptoms, such as fainting or tremors, that occurred after vaping, between 2010 and 2019. Again, after FDA oversight. The vaping industry group sues the FDA because they want to delay the review of e-cigarettes currently on the market.

(28:48) And on August 16th, investors say they're real bullish on vaping companies. August 17th, the CDC opens a probe into vaping-related lung disease. They have at that point 153 people and counting suffering from lung disease due to vaping. On August 19th, two days later, health officials report more than 150 people have been hospitalized. That's the next level. State and federal officials report 153 people, many of them young adults, across 16 states have been treated for respiratory issues that occurred after vaping.

(29:12) August 20th, Juul Labs withdraws its membership from the industry group that's suing the FDA. It's like, "Uh, what? We wrote the regulations, and you're gonna sue the corporation or the FDA, which is legislating on our behalf?" So August 23rd, the first shoe drops. Illinois reports a patient dying after vaping. A person who had recently vaped and was hospitalized with severe respiratory illness had died. Now, if you've been listening to me for any length of time, we really don't know if he died from his treatment or from the vaping illness. But let's just say the vaping illness was what put him in even more dangerous hands.

(30:11) On August 29th, FTC launches an investigation into Juul's marketing practices. Not to defend Juul, but this is beyond marketing. This is an issue of people dying. Before FDA regulation, when marketing was totally unregulated, nobody was dying.

(30:56) On August 30th, the CDC says don't buy vaping products off the street and don't modify them, even though it's not clear that that has anything to do with these deaths. The e-cigarette products should not be used by youth, young adults, pregnant women, as well as adults who do not currently use tobacco products. So in other words, if you're using tobacco products, start with tobacco products first, then vape.

(31:56) Then we have another vaping-related death on September 4th, and then another vaping-related death on September 5th, and two more deaths on September 6th. And health officials in Minnesota confirmed a 65-year-old person died in August after a long hospitalization from severe lung injury. The person had a history of underlying lung disease, but the lung injury was associated with vaping. Illicit, that would be illegal. THC, that would be marijuana. The lung injury progressed to other conditions. They told the station the state had 17 patients to date who have been classified as confirmed or possible cases. An additional 15 are under investigation. And the first death in Los Angeles County related to vaping was reported the same day.

(32:58) FDA calls out Juul, this company, for claiming that vaping is safer than other tobacco products. Again, that might be true. It might be true. But right now, the short-term death appears to be a problem. At least with cigarettes, you have to smoke for about 20 years before you die.

(33:56) So the FDA gives Juul a warning saying, "Hey, no ads." Juul says, "Hey, forget you. We're going to continue these ads." September 16th, three confirmed cases of severe lung disease. And September 19th, vaping criminal probe announced by the FDA as illnesses rise to 530. And then Walmart, our savior, discontinues the sale of e-cigarettes. Thank you, Walmart. California, September 24th, issues a warning. September 25th, two days ago, Juul's CEO steps down and the company ceases all U.S. advertising. And September 26th, that would be yesterday, vaping lung cases reach 805 with now 12 known deaths, the CDC says.

(34:37) So we gotta say, we at least gotta say that the FDA certainly failed to protect the U.S. from vaping dangers, if indeed any existed before the FDA intervened. I'd like to point out that before FDA authority was granted, that would be 2008, there were no vaping deaths. And vaping seizures didn't start until two years after the FDA received regulatory authority.

(35:04) So what conclusions can we draw? We could say, "Oh, cigarette companies are bad people." But where's the value in that? That doesn't give you any kind of direction for forward decision-making for your health. There's a lot of conclusions you can draw. And even if people are bad, I mean, no one's all bad, right? So let's not be too harsh. But one conclusion that is certainly reasonable to draw is you got the FDA that declares drugs safe and effective. And the Journal of the American Medical Association itself says at least 107,000 people every year die from properly prescribed FDA-approved medications. So apparently, the FDA has missed the mark on approving these things as safe and effective when actually they're lethal. So I think we have to look at really is the record of the FDA in its regulations. One would almost say if something is FDA-regulated and approved, pretty much bet your bippy or whatever you'd like to bet that that thing is not safe.

(36:04) So what would a sensible person do going forward? Well, at the moment, you probably would stop buying vaping products because they don't appear to be safe. You might want to make your own vaping products. There's a lot of DIY videos on YouTube. You can check them out. I would definitely say at least do that. Don't buy any commercial vaping products. What about those of us who don't smoke or who don't vape? What would be a reasonable thing to do? I think a reasonable thing to do—again, it's my opinion, it's not medical advice, and you might feel differently, and that's okay. But I would say, again, anything FDA-approved? Not for my ingestion. I think that's really a pretty safe policy. You would certainly avoid being one of the 107,000 victims every year who dies from properly prescribed medication.

(37:02) I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that if your doctor prescribes medication properly, according to FDA guidelines and the standard of care, you will not win a malpractice suit. There is no compensation there because the doctor acted properly. But what good is compensation when you're dead? So I say an ounce of prevention is worth more than a ton or no cure. Again, if you die as a result of an FDA product that was produced as per FDA approval, then you have no legal recourse. Everything was done properly. And although harm may have occurred, oh well, things happen.

(38:07) So what you have then is you have the FDA, and it's literally an enabler of harm. You go with the FDA in charge of certified water, and you'd have death from water. It's just simply the process they go through. What's the process? Everyone who's safely engaged in the activity—shut them down, shut them down. Then you open the arena to people or companies who have a record of creating unsafe products. Very simple, very straightforward. And you'll get deaths every time. After the criminal investigation, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the results. And even whatever the results are, it's not going to bring anyone back to life.

(38:37) So, FDA: Protector of Health or Enabler of Harm? You decide. And really, it's a personal decision.

(38:47) Alrighty. You know what? Let's take our Shilla Jet. We have it sitting here, and if we stir it up, stir it up, there you go. A lot of people say, "Dr. Daniels, how do I dissolve that thick tar?" Answer: sit and wait. There you go. I have my trace minerals—our turpentine and our trace minerals.

(39:17) All right. We have questions. We're going to check out these questions.

(39:24) Question from Angie: "I use an epinephrine injection as of 2018. I'm allergic to stuff in food, dust, dairy. And when showering, my skin swells up with red marks. I can only eat bran bread, no white or wheat. Sometimes if I smell certain foods or products, it shows in my blood work. I'm 62 years old, so I just stick to what I know."

Dr. Daniels' Response: Alright, Angie. That's a good thing to do. But the next question, Angie, is would you like to get better? From my experience, again, no medical advice here, all allergies are simply caused by a congested liver. And a congested liver is caused by congested intestines—that would be small intestines and large intestines. So increasing your bowel movements to three a day is one thing. The next thing is all these foods that you know—switch over to the organic, chemical-free version. And as far as showering goes, definitely get a filter in your shower. If you're using any kind of soap or other personal products, cease and desist. That's a start, and then you should start feeling better from there.

(40:53) Question from Joel: "Good morning. In general, would you recommend people use the keto diet? Or if not, why not?"

Dr. Daniels' Response: I would not recommend the keto diet because the keto diet induces ketosis. Having gone to medical school and seen people die of ketosis, I'm a little squeamish about recommending anyone go into ketosis. It doesn't appeal to me. However, what else is there about the keto diet? Well, the keto diet, you read up on it, and they will say you should check the pH of your urine and check your urine for ketones to make sure you're not going into a dangerous range. So once you have to do regular testing to check the safety of something, in my book, one, it's not safe, and two, it's not natural. So my philosophy is to stick to things that are so safe, no testing is required, and things that are natural. So there you go. Keto's off my list. Do I recommend meats? Sure. The keto diet? No.

(42:07) Question from Sharon: "Hi, Dr. Daniels. Thank you for your diligence in giving us the knowledge of natural remedies to help us but also teaching us how to research and apply these remedies to our everyday lives."

Dr. Daniels' Response: You're welcome, Sharon.

Sharon's Question Continued: "My question is, is stage four kidney disease irreversible?"

Dr. Daniels' Response: The answer is no, it's not. I’m familiar with people who’ve been on dialysis and actually managed to get off dialysis. Now, it does matter what the cause is, but generally, if you're willing to aggressively detox, look at what is causing your problem, and stop doing it, then you can avoid dialysis, or if you're on dialysis, get off.

(42:54) Question from Den: "Have not had a chance to read the Vitality Capsules and turpentine protocols, but I did receive our ordered Vitality Capsules. Very good."

Dr. Daniels' Response: Thank you, Den.

Den's Question Continued: "We have the turpentine and are ready to begin detoxing."

Dr. Daniels' Response: No, you're not. You need to go to vitalitycapsules.com and get your free report. You need to read it. And after you read it once, you need to read it a second time. So there you have it.

(43:37) Question from RJ: "Hi, I have a swollen knee, and from what others tell me, maybe sciatica."

Dr. Daniels' Response: I don't know who the others are, but I'll give you a hot tip: Sciatica does not cause knees to swell. So let's read more.

RJ's Question Continued: "The knee is twice the size of the opposite knee, causing me to limp with pain. I am female, 64 years old. It was doing just fine until I fell at my job."

Dr. Daniels' Response: Falling on your knee can cause it to swell and be painful. I have been applying a mixture of castor oil and turpentine once or twice a week and have been getting more hydrated. Not sure what that means. So of course, the relevant piece of information, which has been omitted here, is has applying castor oil and turpentine been helpful? And if it has, go ahead and apply it daily. Don’t apply it just twice a week.

(44:56) Dr. Daniels' Additional Advice to RJ: If the castor oil and turpentine are helpful topically, then apply it every day. The next thing is to elevate it, ice it, and also make cold packs and hot packs, and that will help. The next thing, obviously, is to poop three times a day so that your body can remove the damaged tissue and fix it with new parts and pieces. Then you’re going to have to fix your diet to eat nutritious food that’s going to facilitate the repair.

(45:36) Question from Mary Lou: "My friend has been diagnosed with giant cell arthritis. I tried to research this online but found nothing as far as natural treatment."

Dr. Daniels' Response: That is correct. You will find nothing as far as natural treatment. Giant cell arthritis is a situation where the artery in the head, parasites, or chemicals are stuck there. They create swelling and maybe even can sometimes block it off and create a stroke. So the answer, of course, is to decrease your inflammation. The quickest way to decrease inflammation is to put it out the bottom end into the toilet—poop, poop, poop, three times a day. That’s the place to start.

(46:30) The next thing you take a look at is your friend definitely has a diet that's feeding this problem. So she needs to change her diet. Some tips for that you can get by going to vitalitycapsules.com, downloading the Candida Cleaner free report, and the diet is totally anti-inflammatory. In other words, you're not going to be swallowing any crap to make your giant cell arthritis worse. And of course, appointments are available at drjenniferdaniels.org. Alright, so that would be her best bet.

(47:29) Question from Kamari: "Hi Dr. Daniels, I hope you're well. Thank you for all you do. You're been dealing with scleroderma for nearly eight years. He also has puffy eyes, cheeks, and hands, tightness in his legs and hands, vitiligo, he's cold and numb. He's cut out caffeine, beef, and pork. He does fast sometimes, has tried many methods, doesn't have much consistency in a specific area because he's unsure what to be consistent with."

Dr. Daniels' Response: Yeah, it can be confusing.

Kamari's Question Continued: "Have you ever worked with a patient with scleroderma?"

Dr. Daniels' Response: Yes.

Kamari's Question Continued: "Do you think he can be healed from this?"

Dr. Daniels' Response: Yes.

Kamari's Question Continued: "Can you advise us on the first steps to take?"

Dr. Daniels' Response: Yeah. So every case is different. Not all afflictions are the same, but he has two things going on. One, there are parasites that are literally eating away, eating away at his connective tissue. For those of you who don't know scleroderma, imagine I have a hand, and a normal hand, it can do this. A hand with scleroderma can only do pretty much this because the tips of the fingers are dissolving, the skin becomes very tight, and the hand becomes dysfunctional. This can happen really throughout the body.

(48:52) And so the cure is getting rid of the parasites. You can start by going to vitalitycouncils.com, downloading the Candida Cleaner, and following the report, preparing yourself to take turpentine. Actually, taking turpentine will feel a lot better. The next thing to do, or as he does that, is you should follow the diet, except probably you would benefit from pig's feet. Looking at what you've described here. Simply have some boiled pig's feet soup. And then, of course, you can always go to drjenniferdaniels.org and sign up for an appointment for further direction from there.

(49:39) Question from Tony: "Hi, Dr. Daniels. I'm a big fan of yours. I need to ask if you think your protocol, turpentine, would possibly work for my friend who's 47 years old with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. Brain and lungs. She tried a natural route for a year and the cancer spread. Then she did chemo, radiation, and immunotherapy with no help at all. They are saying if she chooses no therapy, she will have six weeks. If they radiate the brain and try a different chemo, possibly one year."

Dr. Daniels' Response: Yeah, I think it would help. I think if she goes to vitalitycouncils.com, downloads the report, then that will be helpful to her. Radiating the brain is a last-ditch effort. Usually, once you radiate the brain, the person will only live six weeks. Because once you radiate the brain, the tumors will shrink, and then, boom, they'll grow. I won't say they'll grow, but fluid will be attracted to the area, the brain will swell, and then the person dies because the brain's inside of this skull, and they herniate.

(51:06) Dr. Daniels' Response Continued: So, I would go off the Candida Cleaner if it were me.

(51:12) I'd like to say we are not going to have time, obviously, to handle all the questions. So, people who would like personal attention for their questions can schedule appointments. We also have a monthly program, Home Healers, which you can find out about at vitalitycouncils.com forward slash heal at home. And that is a program that helps you implement your self-healing program. I have modules that guide you and show you how to look at your problem, how to analyze it. We also have live question and answer sessions twice a month. I stay until every question is answered, and that way, you have guidance and the tools to heal yourself.

(52:09) Question from Lamont: "Good afternoon, Dr. Daniels. I'm a 25-year-old male, and I want to know what causes men and young teenagers to get chest fat, male boobs, and if there actually is a cure."

Dr. Daniels' Response: The cause is diet, and the cure, of course, is to change the diet. When I met my husband, he was 65, and his boobs were bigger than mine. I can't date you if your breasts are bigger than mine. It's not going to work. So, he went on a diet. He changed what he was eating. His man boobs totally disappeared, and he lost a ton of weight. And I said, okay, we're good.

(53:03) But the problem is that young men nowadays are eating a processed food diet, and they need to get off the processed food diet. The next thing is men nowadays are eating a high-estrogen diet, mostly hidden in the processed foods and the tap water. So, if you're a young man, you need to get off the tap water for sure. I recommend distilled water. And the next thing is you need to eat a diet with a moderate to high amount of cholesterol. That means you need to eat things like liver, for example. Liver, lobster, shrimp—these things are very high in cholesterol. And what that does is the cholesterol feeds your testosterone production, and so it balances out your hormones, so you're testosterone-dominant, not estrogen-dominant.

Lamont's Additional Comment: "I plan to start a foundation for the youth and males for the cause, so any and all info would be helpful. Thank you."

Dr. Daniels' Response: You're welcome.

(54:07) Question from an Unknown Caller: "What causes and what treatment for seeing light rings, light streaks in the eyes?"

Dr. Daniels' Response: I don't really know what this person is saying. Maybe what they're saying is when they close their eyes, they see streaks or rings. You can boil up ginger tea, actually, and just put about four drops in each eye at bedtime. It will sting, but it will open up the circulation in your eye, clear your eye out, and get rid of those.

(54:59) Question from Sarah: "My mother was recently diagnosed with polycythemia vera. Those of you who don't know what that is, it's a disease where the bone marrow makes too much blood, and the hemoglobin gets very high, the blood gets thick, and these people can be prone to strokes and heart attacks and clots. Of course, she has an appointment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, next week."

Dr. Daniels' Response: That's nice.

Sarah's Question Continued: "So, she's taking a chemotherapy pill. And just by the way, a family neighbor was also diagnosed with it. And she's aware of a new drug being developed by the industry. And she says, 'I don't believe it.' I've looked through your archives and haven't seen anything related to polycythemia vera. I'd love to get your input on treatments and diagnosis. My mother is still asleep and believes everything the doctors and news media say. It's been difficult to try and wake her up. If I had a point of reference specifically, I think it would be a real eye-opener for her. I appreciate everything you do and always look forward to your talks. Podcasts sound great. Thank you. Thank you so much for what you do and prayers for protection for you and your loved ones."

Dr. Daniels' Response: Thank you.

(56:04) Dr. Daniels' Response Continued: Alright, so if your mother is asleep and believes everything the doctors and news media say, it's probably pretty much a waste of your time to talk to her. Polycythemia vera is fairly rare. I've only come in contact with like two or three cases of it. The first case I came in contact with, I was like, "Oh, well, just go do what the doctors say." And of course, what happens is the bone marrow makes lots and lots of blood. It gets burned out, and boom, the person then goes to aplastic anemia and dies. So, that's not really a good solution.

(57:06) The next person that showed up with polycythemia vera, I said to myself, "Maybe we have a natural solution for this." And so what that person did was they followed the Candida Cleaner report and started taking turpentine, and their polycythemia reversed, and their blood counts normalized. It was amazing. This was when I was practicing medicine in the '90s. Like I said, it's a pretty rare disorder, so I haven't seen a lot of cases of it. So, yeah, go to vitalitycapsules.com, download the free report, the Candida Cleaner, and have your mother carefully follow the instructions there.

(57:51) Question from Another Caller: "I've been having pain and sensitivity in my teeth for the past year, at least. I went to the dentist, they found nothing. The pain persisted. I did the turpentine cleanse, and it helped rid me of the pain, but the pain came back some months later."

Dr. Daniels' Response: Okay, we can stop right there. So if the turpentine protocol helps, but the pain comes back, then that means you have a problem, A, with your diet—you haven't fixed it well enough—or B, with your elimination—you’re not getting enough poops. So go back and redo that.

(58:40) Caller Continues: "I went back to the dentist, and they found what we thought was the root of the problem—a decay discovered under one of the teeth. And they pulled it. After they pulled the tooth, it was great for a couple of days. Then three days after the extraction, all the same pain I'd been experiencing came back."

Dr. Daniels' Response: Again, your problem is that the underlying cause of the pain is your diet and your elimination. So you've got to work on that.

(59:59) Caller Continues: "Although I'm not a fan of antibiotics, I asked for antibiotics to help, thinking it would clear up the infection sooner and allow me to take a natural course. I took penicillin for five days, and it kind of helped, but not completely. So I asked for another one. After the second course of antibiotics, I broke out in hives all over my body. I had to take steroids to get rid of the allergic reaction, and now I'm off the steroids and antibiotics."

Dr. Daniels' Response: Right, so there's not really a good shortcut here, alright? You've got to poop more, drink more water, and you have to take a second look at your diet if something is missing. Maybe an appointment at drjenniferdaniels.org would help sort it out. It sounds like you certainly spent more than what a consultation would cost, and it could save you more heartache in the future.

(1:00:08) Dr. Daniels' Closing Remarks: Okay, that is it. Our time is up, and we'll be back again next week. Remember to please get your report at vitalitycapsules.com. Also, you can get your Vitality Capsules at the same place—support our sponsor. And if you'd like appointments, appointments are available at drjenniferdaniels.org.

(1:02:25) Thank you. Bye-bye.