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SI Digital, Innovations and Learning, a new video journal which is interactive with discussion. In association with SI, Surgical Neurology International, an Internet Journal with Nancy Epstein as
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its editor-in-chief, is pleased to present a new series calledBlaylock Short Reports which is made predominantly for our bot podcast audience The topic of this presentation is why everybody needs a
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balanced diet, exercise with nutritional supplements for healthful longevity,
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given by Russell L. Blaylock MD. Dr. Blaylocks, well known to this audience, is the CEO of Theoretical Neuroscience Research, Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Neuroinflammation Section of
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Surgical Neurology International and SI Digital. He is a board-certified nutritionist in addition to being a board-certified neurosurgeon. He's the creator and editor of the Blaywalk Wellness Report
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and many book scientific papers and comments on radio and TV in the epic times. He's written a number of books which are listed on this slide.
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The co-moderator of this session is James Allison. Today we're talking to Russell Blaylock. This is a talk that's not only for us and our digital, but it's for podcast, our podcast audience, on
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some things we think you'd be really interested in that. Russell hasn't had a chance to cover before. And the first thing I suggested Russell talk about is because many of you don't know him,
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certainly don't know him like I know him. So, I think you need to know a little background of Russell, how he grew up, what he did, and how he got to what he was doing. It's pretty unusual for a
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neurosurgeon to become an expert in biochemical nutrition and biochemical disease. Most of you would expect that mostly from our medical colleagues, and he's done this for a long time. So how did
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he get there? What's his business experience with that? Obviously, he's encountered an enormous amount of resistance. And we'll see how he's dealt with it.
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So Russell, why don't we start and tell us a little bit. Where did you grow up? Where were you born? Where did you grow up? I grew up in Monroe, Louisiana,
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and I moved over to North Carolina from New Orleans I went to medical school at LSU in New Orleans, and I grew up in a conservative family. My father was an electrician, and my wife's father was an
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electrician, and then he went into insurance. He was very athletic in college. He was a heavyweight boxing champion, and he taught me the value of education. He said, If you're going to know
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about the world, you can't go about what they're telling you You have to read yourself and read people who were at these meetings, at these events,
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rather than reinterpretation by people who weren't even born when they had been happened. And so I followed him a lot of his literature. He would pass it on and maybe read it and give it to me and
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I'd read it. And I found it fascinating, and early on when I was in college, I found out I almost always There's a lot of arguments. try to defend myself against liberals. And so I stumbled
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across a book,
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which was called the English Establishment. I mean, the liberal establishment. And I read the book, and it was a very academic book. And for the first time, I started winning arguments. And so
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then I didn't know a lot about economics at the time And so I started reading von Mises, Hayat, and
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many of the writers in economics began to learn that, learn what inflation was, how the economy grew, how the free market worked, what competition was about, why it was different from socialism
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and communism. And it was like a whole new world opened up to them I began to see why things were happening. I mean, this is a tremendous change in society, as we remember. We all grew up saying,
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Plays to Allegiance. And we had a public schools where you learned civics and you learned all sorts of things. You prayed, you did the things we no longer do anymore. So I saw this transition and
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I saw what it was doing.
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Because I had read this literature, I had an understanding of it and I could start to predict what was gonna happen. Well, what was next, where it was going? So I started looking at things like
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hate speech
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and various programs that they were instituting and I said, this is gonna be a nightmare. Well, now it's become a nightmare. And so I would talk to my colleagues about it. Well, they knew
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essentially nothing about it. When I got into college, I was very interested in science, and so I took the usual pre-medical science courses, but I was more interested in it than that. So I took
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microbiology, I took embryology, I took three courses in biochemistry, one was a graduate course, and I used to tutor this biochemistry major. He knew a lot of biochemistry, but he didn't know
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biology So I used to tutor him in connecting the two. So when I went to medical school, as you and I both experienced, we found out most medical students had no interest in. They thought the first
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year when you took biophysics and you took biochemistry and a lot of the basic sciences, that that was just to weed out the weak students. You didn't really want to learn it to use it in medicine,
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but because I'd spent so much time studying these subjects, I saw that they're very important.
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and I was particularly neuroscience. I was very interested in neuroscience at that time. And so I began to see the value in how it was connected to disease, what was happening to cells? What did
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an enzyme do? What was the purpose of biting the nose? What are they doing? And my colleagues really didn't have much of an idea. They didn't particularly understand what it was about. They
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didn't understand about pre radicals, pre radicals from beginning to come into the literature is very important in the scientific literature, but not in the medical literature. And I had a lot
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better grasp and understanding what that was doing. And they didn't. And so, as I went along, became a neurosurgery resin, I used a lot of this information to treat my patients. And they did a
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lot better I could see that the patients that I would give
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I would use infusions of trace elements and vitamins. And the nurses all said, you know, your patients are doing a lot better than the other patients. And I could see a direct connection. And
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then I'm read a book written by a general surgeon that's a big thick book, who's on the nutritional aspect of surgery. And I found out that many of the water-soluble vitamins disappear within 24
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hours of trauma And that even what we would think was lesser trauma, like a 30 burn, or head injury, was equal to a tremendous drain on the supplements. In 24 hours, there's virtually no vitamin
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C. And the B vitamins, like riboflavin and thiamine, disappeared very quickly.
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My colleagues had no idea that they didn't understand it.
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that reinforced my understanding of the body of nutrition and patients' recovery and how to prepare to enforce sugar, how to prepare trauma patients. And I found out a head injury alone was equal to
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about a 30 third degree burn. Well, when I was an intern, I worked on the burn trauma unit. They had just opened it. We were one of the first trauma units in the United States We had Curtis Arts
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in my career. She was a giant in burn trauma. And so I was one of the few people that even take the rotation. They had trouble getting interns to take it. They wanted things were a lot easier. I
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could work pretty hard in burn trauma. And I learned that you could have a minor burn and die from it from nutritional depletion. That you weren't dying actually from the burn itself, you're
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intentionally depleted. and then they die of heart failure, or liver failure, or some other collapse of their biochemical and physiological system.
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And it really I found that it's tremendous
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value. As you know, a lot of people in our discipline, particularly neurosurgery, they don't see a value. They wanna do surgery on people of all ages and you're taking a person that's 25 years
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old, biochemically, nutritionally, they're completely different from a person that's 75 years old. And we find that the 75 years old, when we look at the studies, are severely nutrition
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deficient. And if you do simple things like give an IV with D5 and water or D5 and half normal in it, It stresses the timing. content of their body and they can go into a coma, or they'll have a
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very poor outcome. And that if you prepare them, you prevent that. But most surgeons are not aware of that. They don't know that. And so they think, well, the patient went into a coma for some
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other reason. And they don't understand they're purely nutritional and you could have prevented it by giving them a dose of
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thiamine And it's a little simple things like that, you pre and post-op preparation of the patient that makes all the difference. And
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the further I got in, the more I saw that nutrition was playing a huge role in it, and then as your chart shows, we see that the nutritional value
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of food has gone down tremendously in the last 30, 40 years And if we call it the pesticides or besides and Yeah, you're right. I put. with the chart up here for you. This is the one about
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farming. And it is, here it is here. Look at 1900 at the amount of common things, like selenium, copper, magnesium, cobalt, calcium, zinc, and iron was at a level that was good for your
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metabolism. And then over the centuries, you follow it for decades, you get down here to 2010, they've just about disappeared.
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Well, these minerals, this is mainly a mineral char, they're the ones that make the biochemical reactions take place. And if you don't have these minerals, for instance, if your magnesium is low,
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you're at a high risk of having heart failure. It dramatically increases inflammation in your body and we know that virtually all chronic diseases. are related to inflammation and at each of these
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things, like selenium and copper and iron, are playing a major role. You have to know how to use them, how to balance them. For instance, if you use too much iron, it's detrimental. If you
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don't have enough, it's detrimental. You have to keep it balanced and you do that by following it through blood study.
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And if you look at that second chart that you have,
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before you go on, what about this year, about the other things that happened was farming. Yeah, and what you saw is that there was a dramatic change in farming. Back in the
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1900s, they used rotation crops and they used natural methods to control the insights they used natural methods to make the crops from a grow brother. And then we had the farming methods change and
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they thought, well, we put them on your nitrate onto the vegetable grows really fast, And we think it's just as good. And then they found out, no, actually it's depleted of all of these metals.
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And this is what the chart showed, is that the more you use the ammonium nitrate pesticides herbicide and fungicides, the lower content of these essential metals is occurring. And it's also
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happening to the vitamin. And so then we looked at pesticide, herbicide, and fungicide, and we saw this playing a huge role in the development of neurological diseases, like Parkinson's disease,
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pesticide, herbicide, and fungicide, the number one cause of Parkinson's disease. So not only are you losing the
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essential ingredients you need from the soil, but what you're getting toxins in addition is really what you're saying, right? Yeah, it's putting a tremendous strain on the cell protect itself,
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yet you've lost almost all the mouths that were used to protect it. So now the
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toxicity per decade has increased exponentially.
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Let me show you this. You wanted to see the second chart. Were you finished with the first one? You want me to? Yeah, yeah, some finished with it. The second chart. And then they started
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looking at the populations. Well, how many people are actually deficient in these various components? 'Cause it was just the same. I used to see the nonsense put out about the forms here come and
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saying, oh, you get all the minerals and vitamins you need through your diet. Well, when they started studying people and actually looking at the blood levels, they found well, only 15 of people
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met in minimum requirements for selenium, 21 for plastic. 22 for riboflative. So as you go down the line, you see where there's a significant deficiency, and this chart is not completely
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reflecting, 'cause it's dependent on age. For instance, if you look at a person in their 70s, who's out in the community, about 50 of them are deficient in vitamin B12 and phylic acid. And if
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you look at people who are in nursing homes, it goes up to 80 to 90. Well, this chart says the percentage, you mentioned that, but the people who are listening to this, it says the percentage of
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US population not meeting the
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recommended daily amount,
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RDA, and allowance, and here on vitamin E, which is it's 86 are not meeting it Vitamin E folate 75 calcium, 73 vitamin A is 55. These are all the vitamins they say you shouldn't take by the way.
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This is zinc with almost half of them. And it just goes down the list and the list is filled with vitamins. And so it says you're not getting enough. And
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did you get more out of this chart than I just said? Well, you have to realize that the RDA is extremely low. So this is a lot worse than someone's being shown by. So RDA the the RDA is deficient.
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So the RDA is the recommended daily allowance. And you said that's drawn up by some bodies. It says you're as Department of Agriculture. I don't know if they drew it up or not. But you're saying
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that's not even a good target. Is that what you're saying? That's right what it is, is. anything below that starts producing disease. So you're just getting enough metals and vitamins to prevent
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disease, not for good health, not for efficient cell function. It just prevents you from getting a full blown disease. And
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that's a good loan and
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for instance, as I said, it depends on the age too. You've got to realize that some of these figures are people in a young, middle aged, older age. Right, it's a composite. Yeah, if you did
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older age only, you'd find out a lot more for deficient and not even getting a minimum more to gain. Yeah, excellent point. So now, I think it actually gets into something we were going to do in
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another talk, but here is the, I keep sending your studies and we've talked about this over the years where studies come out saying vitamins. You do not have to take vitamin supplements every day.
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You're getting enough in your diet. Shoot that one down. Well, what they're showing is what's in the diet is minimal. And of course, this is a pristine diet. Most people are eating that. Most
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people are eating junk food. And for instance, you're a vitamin C. Well, we know that if you're under a lot of stress and that includes not only psychological stress, the physical stress, you're
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vitamin C a lot lower than shown in this chart.
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So you have to take that into consideration. These are averages. These are not a particular person. This is an average. So you may be as an individual severely iron deficient. So why do
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you say that? Yeah, go ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah, if you're iron deficient. If it's too low, you produce a lot of free radicals. It's too high. You produce a lot of free radical. Any increase
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in inflammation. And the title of the chart is Fact of the Day. 90 of Americans are deficient in one or more key nutrients. And I guess that's, if you summarize all of your training, which is
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really very interesting and very extensive, these two charts, which the people on the
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podcast won't see, but we've just
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explained them, show a progressive deficiency over time because of farming in some of these basic metals that you need for your body to the point where it's zero, added by the farming methods. And
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then in the second chart shows all the vitamins and so forth that you need and the deficiency is marked. And as Russell has just said, an older people would even be more glaring. So the answer to
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do, we need daily supplements
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and all these articles that come out. What's wrong with these articles? Why don't they show this? Well, most of them are published by pharmaceutical companies or people that are controlled by
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pharmaceutical companies. If you check the list of authors and they're
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complicated, they're conflicts, well, they can work two or three form pharmaceutical companies. Most physicians that have known never look at that. And some germs make it difficult. Like in New
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England, German, and medicine, you've got to get on a completely different side to find out the conflicts eventually. And that makes a lot of difference, a lot of difference. Well, they will
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argue that, look, I've gotten a cross section of a public. And I'm comparing our control to a group that
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these aren't treated versus controls. These are just controls. These are just samples of the public. And so we assume that that sample is representative, but you just said it isn't because it
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doesn't - we don't know what the age group is. We don't know what their nutritional status is to begin with. And so we don't even know where they start with We assume that if they took a whole wide
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sample of everybody, it's P the same, but the answer is it's still deficient.
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That's right. This is a complete
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average of the person. And this is mixed with young people, middle-aged people, old people, people under stress, people with borderline disease that hadn't been diagnosed. And with people, I'll
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realize that RDA you, take 100 people And, uh, Out of that 100, you don't know what percentage has borderline illness. What percentage is getting ready to become ill and express this deficiency?
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You don't know, it's not in there. And they take that and call it an RDA, a recommended daily allowance. And so two days later, or a week later, that person you said was normal level is now
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severely deficient And that's a very good point. And they go to surgery and they lose it all because it's a water-soluble vitamin. And they've got nothing or they are they're nutritionally deficient
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or they don't have a good diet or something happens. Now there's one chart we didn't have up here. We never made a chart of this. And I don't know that there is a chart, I've never seen it. But
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the chart of antioxidants, you mentioned vitamin C is very helpful. And that was in there a chart It was about a 50 level. So people are deficient in vitamin C. You get that from fruits and so
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forth. But there are other antioxidants, which are molecular agents that essentially quelch the free radicals and stop these destructive chemical reactions from going on. And so if you add the
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metals to the vitamins and add the antioxidants, you're not, you may be getting them in an uneven manner, you may be deficient to begin with. But your argument is, and this is given over 25, 30,
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45 years of experience, is that you are deficient, and the only thing you can do to overcome it is take some supplements. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay, and in order to know that, you
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gotta measure it. And you have to realize that many of these minerals are antioxidant. In my discussions on my newsletter, I'll talk about anti-oxidant network. And what people don't know, a lot
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of physicians don't know, is that anti-oxidants work at different compartments within the cell. Some are water-soluble, some are fat-soluble, some only work on the membrane, some work at the
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junction in the membrane in the acreage solution, and some only neutralize some free radicals, others neutralize very powerful free radicals For instance, HNE
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is not neutralized by most anoxid, it takes a particular anoxins to neutralize it. It's a very powerful anoxidant and
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causes a lot of disease, a lot of disease, a lot of disease. So you may take these other anoxidants, it's not touching this, the HNE, and it is driving
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excellent point. So if we take these 37 trillion cells in the body,
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and we say in each one of those cells, there's in each individual cell, there's biochemical reactions, and it's not one or two, it's probably not a thousand, it's probably in the tens of
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thousands or millions. I mean, the number that you're looking at, at one frame, one millisecond at a time in the human body, of all the extensive chemical reactions that are going on in 37
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trillion cells, it's a staggering, it's staggering number, you can't even conceive of this. And then you also think about, we'll get to this later, you'll also think about people are trying to
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run the body by technology in the future. I mean, it's almost a futile idea when you realize what's going on But so it tells you then that all of these things are different. Then you add to that.
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not only do they need these base minerals and the base vitamins, but they need the antioxidants and it isn't one antioxidants cover everything. So you need an assortment and you do get that through
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a well-balanced diet because a different vegetable, I know my wife likes a lot of broccoli and there's a lot of vitamin C in broccoli and a lot of different nutrients. But if you take something that
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does not very nutritious, you're not gonna get it So it doesn't mean that you're eating and you're hungry and you're satisfying yourself that you're getting it. Is that right? It may drain your
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vitamins and your minerals. So if you're eating a
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high carbohydrate diet, it's draining your minerals and your antioxidants of vitamin. Now, let me ask you another question because we're trying to bring this to an end here 'cause the guys on the
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podcast are a short time.
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How do I know, I'm a doctor, I don't know much about this. Where do I find out about one is, as you rewrite the play lock wellness report and you subscribe to that. And you can read about it, go
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back to the previous issues which you can get. It's out of interest, it's usually eight pages. And it's one source that I know where you can find it. And I think that's very good. The people have
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written books about it, but I think your source I found has been very accurate
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So now that tells them where they can get the information. Obviously, second is to test the patients on it, right? You can test them for obviously you can test them for
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all the electrolytes you talk about. You can test them for some of them for the metals. You can test them for the vitamins. In fact, you may have to order special tests We just ordered a special
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panel of all the vitamin B's.
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and you can order those. Now, one thing is if you order the panel and you said it's very important in vitamin D, now normally you get there because the sun shines, then it changes the chemical
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that's under your skin and it forms down vitamin D and you get that out of the sun. But most people avoid the sun, they're afraid of cancer or they're being covered up or they live in a climate
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where they can't get it or they have black skin and that shields them from it And so you're basically, they're deficient and you found out it was some of your work that was a pediatrician up in
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Seattle, isn't it Seattle? I don't know, Portland, Oregon. Portland, Portland Oregon. And tell the story about that. Well, he had one of the largest pediatric practices of anybody in the
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state. He had virtually thousands of pediatric patients. And so on all of his patients, She did vitamin D3 blood death.
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And so I asked him, I said, Well, how many did you find deficient? And he said, All of them. Everybody would belong normal. Well, vitamin D does a lot more than shrinking the bone. It is a
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very powerful antioxidant. It's a powerful re-radical strategy. It is very protective against cancer, against inflammatory diseases of the brain, of the nervous system And so, here in his
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practice, which was practical, and I read it from general practitioners in other parts of the country, and they tested their patients. I said, Almost all of them were vitamin D deficient. And,
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you know, the other thing I'd like to bring, is people don't realize, say you're infected, well, you're producing white blood cells by the millions It takes a lot of nutrients to produce those
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white blood cells. If you don't take any nutrients and you're producing your white blood for their week, they are not efficient. They will not act as a healthy immune cell. And so, because you're
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deficient to start with and get infected, you're more likely to either die of infection or have very difficult time in trying to control them. And that's why the antibiotics don't work. Well,
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you're trying to an antibiotic, but your immune system is so weak Well, we know that from experimental data, you can take an animal infected and you can parallelize the immune system. I don't care
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how many antibiotics you give, you cannot cure the infection. If you have an functional immune system and give the antibodies, it clears right up. The key reference in this session is the Blalock
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