BTC Sessions - Bitcoin Doctor Exposes Behind the Scenes Medical Industry Scandals | Dr. Ammous

Starting point is 00:00:00 The entire medical system is corrupt. The entire medical system is captured. The medical guidelines, they're written by societies, and these societies are directly funded by pharmaceutical companies. The entire process started with this report. It was written in 1910. What also happened in that era? Bitcoiners would know this.

Starting point is 00:00:18 It's no coincidence that it all happened at the same time. This random doctor in middle of nowhere, Wisconsin, in order to go and prosecute them, put them in jail, or shut down his medical school, if they're not practicing our own medicine. That takes money to do that. If you have an infinite amount of money from the money printer, that's how you're able to keep this running.

Starting point is 00:00:37 And this is why Bitcoin will hopefully fix this. The only thing more valuable than your Bitcoin is your health. Today, we're sitting down with internal medicine specialist, Dr. Ahmad Amuse, who's exposing big pharma's manipulative chokehold on medicine and how we got here. He's dropping hard truths on diet, artificial light, and a whole host of lies that a lot of people still believe. We chat about how Bitcoin can help build a better system and what you can do to improve your well-being today. Sound crazy? It's a decentralized health fix you've been waiting for. You can't afford to miss this one.

Starting point is 00:01:10 Going beyond Bitcoin to bring you the skills and insights you need to escape the Fiat Matrix, this is Mentor Sessions. Right off the bat, we would love to get a sense of your thoughts on Fiat medicine. And for those who don't know, could you tell our folks at home? what your experience is in your personal field. You are a doctor of... Yes, so I'm a doctor of internal medicine. I specialize in internal medicine. When I was in medical school, I was very disappointed with the stuff they were teaching me. Specifically, it was because I did some dietary changes. I went on the paleo diet. I cut out processed foods and sugar and bread and immediately felt a thousand times better than I felt before. And I started wondering,

Starting point is 00:02:02 well, if this is making me feel so good, and I thought I was healthy before that, but I felt even healthier. I wondered, well, why don't, how would this make my patients feel if I would make them try this stuff? And it got me wondering, so why don't they teach us anything about nutrition

Starting point is 00:02:20 in medical school? And I started reading a little bit, reading a little bit about it, and I realized that the entire medical system is corrupt. The entire medical system is captured by the pharmaceutical industry, and the entire goal of medicine is to sell expensive medications and surgeries for the goal of making profit to these companies rather than help people get better. And coming to that realization was not easy, and ever since I've been trying my best to

Starting point is 00:02:51 help people looking for an alternative from this system. It's very interesting. I kind of want to pull on a couple threads there quickly, if I may. one, for someone who's actually not familiar with kind of the different specializations in medicine, could you just give us a little bit of a brief overview of what internal medicine is, kind of like where you're currently working and what maybe the day-to-day looks like, just to give them sort of a framework for what you're doing in the Fiat mind still. And then additionally on that, too, the curiosity about the paleo diet,

Starting point is 00:03:19 where did that initially come from? Was there a problem that you had, or was it just kind of a, like, this is interesting, I kind of want to experiment, or was it some friend that was like, you got to try this? Yeah, so the internal medicine is basically adult medicine, everything that's non-surgical. So we deal with everything in the body that's internal organs, how organs interact with each other. And so our patient population is mostly older patients with a lot of medical issues. And it tends to be very elderly patients with multiple medical issues. And the entire specialization of internal medicine,

Starting point is 00:03:58 is just built on, oh, this is how you diagnose this disease, and this is the medication that we can give for it. And there's not really that much insight into it. So what's the natural progression? Do people actually improve? Do we achieve cure? You don't get any of that in medical education, but only if you have a little bit of insight once you start practicing,

Starting point is 00:04:23 when you start realizing that we're not actually helping people get any better. there's no final solutions. These medications, you put the patient on the medication and they're on it for the rest of their lives. The problem might get 30% better, but it never goes away completely. So that's sort of internal medicine. I work as something called a hospitalist, which means I see internal medicine patients while they're admitted in the hospital. So this tends to be the sickest population in a certain, the sickest patients in a certain, the sickest patients in a certain population and I see them at their lowest point. And there's not that much point of

Starting point is 00:05:04 I'm able to intervene on their diet, on lifestyle at that point. And that's why I started my own online consulting health service to sort of help people in more of the way that I want to help people. Dr. Ramos, I wanted to ask, being an internal medicine specialist working as a hospitalist, and so you're currently residing in that kind of Fiat medical institution, infrastructure. I'm wondering, one, if you can outline kind of where you see the Fiat corruption, what it's doing to our medical institutions and to our overall health. And in particular, if you have any stories or history where you actually experienced pressure from this sort of system, to perhaps pursue a treatment with a patient that you did not necessarily think was the best option or maybe

Starting point is 00:05:44 even the first one to try. Yeah, that's the good question. So when people talk about corruption in medicine, the corruption is at such a higher level than most people. can imagine. So it's not like pharmaceutical companies paying doctors to prescribe certain medications versus, you know, recommend lifestyle. It's a lot deeper than that. It's a lot, it's a lot higher than that. And the corruption is that the medical guidelines that doctors are supposed to follow and that they're legally liable to follow, they're written by societies such as the American Medical Association, the American College of Cardiology, et cetera. And these societies are directly funded by pharmaceutical companies. So, you know, the system is captured. If you don't follow these guidelines,

Starting point is 00:06:32 then you are legally liable with how you treat the patient. And so the only approach is based on drug and surgery. I, my work in the hospital, I give people what I think they should do. And I also tell them this is what I'm supposed to tell you to do. So I give them both options. Nice. And so that, that's kind of how I cover myself. But my online practice where I see patients completely on my own, and it's off the Fiat system, off the insurance system, I tell them what I feel personally. But when it, when insurance companies and hospitals are involved, it's different. It's very interesting. I'm curious just, I imagine it's not that many, but maybe I'm wrong, right? I kind of think about like trying to orange peel people, trying to talk to people about Bitcoin.

Starting point is 00:07:24 It's like, I really think you should check this out and here's why and here's all the books that you should go through. And very few, very few actually do pursue that or dive a little bit deeper. Were there any patients that perhaps did listen to that additional advice and did they see any benefits as a result that you might be aware of? Of course, working as a hospitalist, you probably don't see them that much after the fact. You kind of get them in the worst state. So there might not be any follow-up information. Yeah, I mean, every day I'm surprised that people actually want to know. They want to know what should I be eating.

Starting point is 00:07:56 People's instinct knows that what I'm eating is going to affect whatever disease I have. And so I'm always getting asked by people. And, you know, I don't get enough time to tell them exactly what they need to do. But I give them general guidelines. I give them some resources to where they can go. I don't know how effective it is because what I tell them is so against the mainstream that they don't even know where to start. Like, for them, the worst culprit for any disease is meat.

Starting point is 00:08:27 What I'm telling them is that you need to eat more meat. So this is like, it's just, it's a lot of, it's very confusing for them. And considering I see them for such a short time in my hospital job, my online business, I get to talk to people for at least an hour. I get to describe to them everything. I tell them where I'm coming from and why the standardized advice doesn't work and why it's wrong. and there's a lot more success there. Excellent. That's very cool here. On that same note then too, so for the people with the additional advice that you're giving them,

Starting point is 00:09:01 is there any sort of basic framework that you're starting from in the sense that like, look, first thing you got to do, like it kind of seems obvious, but perhaps it's not obvious at this point. Like we've been so unbelievably indoctrinated with like the health with like the food pyramid and all the information that's out there is really one of the first places you're looking. Is it sleep? Is it diet? Is it exercise? What's kind of like the common like get these things in line. and you might have a profound impact on your health. Yeah, I think, I mean, the two major pillars of where I work are diet and light.

Starting point is 00:09:32 So my first approach is your diet needs to be animal protein heavy. It needs to be meat heavy. You need to be consuming animal protein with every meal. Most of your nutrition needs to be animal protein. The rest is just things on the side that might make the meat more palatable and give you a little bit more variety, et cetera. So that's the first pillar. The second pillar is you need to be getting as much sun as you can, especially morning sunlight. And this is a rabbit hole that have been going down for a few years, and it's only getting more and more interesting and more and more remarkable that I read about it.

Starting point is 00:10:09 But a lot of our modern diseases are due to us living an indoor life away from the sun and due to our artificial light exposure, which unfortunately has skyrocketed over the sun. the last 20 years. And so if people get that balance of the correct diet, plenty of animal protein and fat, and they are getting sunlight during the day, and they're keeping their nights darker, this is the most significant jump that people can see in their health. And once you start from there, then there's always other things that we can optimize. But that's for me the starting point. Very interesting. Immediately the first thing that popped into my mind, too, also just thinking it from the Bitcoin context. It's like, okay, surgeries, pharmaceutical interventions,

Starting point is 00:10:55 those probably have pretty good margins on them. Doctors saying eat meat and get in the sun. It's not really going to make the hospital a lot of money. So that might be misdirecting things. And I also wonder how much, and maybe you can tease this out a little bit later as well too. I wonder how much the pharmaceutical companies have played into the research that's going into basically the best practices

Starting point is 00:11:11 and standardization for the doctors as well too. Like are they funding grants and research that is then being trained in the medical schools and being passed along as like these standard operating? procedure. But going back for a second, because I really want to dive into this. First question I want to ask, too, is we specifically mentioned animal protein. I'm curious your thoughts on animal fat. And that's important to the diet as well. Of course, it's going to be there, but like, should be making sure to include fatty meats, perhaps in our diet as well. And then on light, because this is a rabbit hole that I have not gone down, but I've started been getting little

Starting point is 00:11:42 pieces here and there. Why morning light? And even from a mechanistic standpoint, what actually is the light doing, how is it interacting with our body that's having this effect? And what other kind of nuances around it do we need to be aware of? Two very good questions. So the starting point for animal fats, there's been just a huge campaign against animal fats. And it's like a double-hinged campaign from two attacking parties. The first party is the processed vegetable seed oil industry, which, has huge margins on the money that they make by selling people, you know, toxic vegetable seed oils.

Starting point is 00:12:26 And the only way they could convince people to stop eating the fats that their ancestors have been eating for thousands of years is to fund corrupt research showing that animal fats are the cause of heart disease. And there's a lot about this, about how the corruption happened. But basically, studies that were showing any link between animals, between animal fat and heart disease got blown up in the media by these companies and by the food industry in order to vilify butter, ghee, tallow, animal fats. And instead, they started pushing for all these vegetable oils. And at the same time that this was happening, the rates of heart disease kept going up.

Starting point is 00:13:13 So that's the first reason why animal fats are attacked. The second reason is the best selling drug in history are cholesterol medications or statins. And in order to sell these medications, cholesterol started becoming the enemy. Your cholesterol levels or eating cholesterol is going to be the cause of getting heart disease. And once this measure started spreading, they started selling this medication. And it was the first medication in history to be prescribed only based on a lab test. you didn't have to have any symptoms, you didn't have to have a heart attack before, but they would still put you on statin.

Starting point is 00:13:51 So no wonder why it's the highest selling drug in history. So that is the reason why animal fats have been vilified. But I'm a big fan of animal fats. If you look at cultures from thousands of years ago, cultures that haven't been tossed by industrialization, they all adore animal fat, and for them it's the most important nutrient in the diet. even cultures that weren't, didn't have that much abundance of animal meat, they would still use the fat to cook vegetables,

Starting point is 00:14:23 to cook grains, because it included so many nutrients and because the animal fats were so critical to human development. So that's the first part of that, the animal fat part. The light story, and this is something that only the last few years I've been getting into, So the most important organelles or structures in your cells are called mitochondria. They are the power plants of your cells. They're the ones that generate.

Starting point is 00:14:54 I think of the third biology. I remember that. Excellent. There we go. Yeah. So what they don't teach you in seventh grade biology, though, is that these mitochondria that generate the energy that drive every function in your body, these mitochondria are light sensitive. So they are affected by the frequency of light that you are exposed to.

Starting point is 00:15:16 And specifically, the infrared, red, and ultraviolet light that you get from the sun, your body uses it to make energy directly, which is pretty incredible to think of. So if you ever go out and spend a lot of time out in the sun, you don't get that much of an appetite because you're actually feeding your body directly from the sun. and it's pretty incredible to think about it that way. So, and we've gotten so used to being indoors all the time that we've lost that link with the sun. Most critical part of the sun is to try as early as possible, as close to the sunrise as possible, to see the morning sunlight and expose as much of your body to the morning sunlight as possible. Because the energy production process in your mitochondria, it turns down.

Starting point is 00:16:08 the on switch once you see the morning sunlight. So if you don't, kind of your metabolism for the entire day is going to be sluggish. So that's the importance of sunlight. On the other hand, artificial light, LED light, which only started in the 20th century

Starting point is 00:16:26 being very prevalent in our lives. And lights from monitors, from phones, it emits blue light, frequencies of blue light only that are without UV red or infrared light. And this blue light is actually directly toxic to the mitochondria and causes it to not generate energy very well. So what we're doing in modern life is that we're not getting enough sun

Starting point is 00:16:57 and we're exposed to blue light all the time. So you can imagine how that can be driving a lot of the diseases that we deal with these days. That's very interesting. I'm curious, are you aware of any sort of like mechanism involved with that mitochondria using the energy of how it's basically on like a would be like a webcam level happening? The first thing that came to mind, this is just be speculating. I don't think it's necessarily true. I was like, okay, I'm wondering if they're basically in the mitochondria, if you're able to use the light coming in to actually like excite electrons and move from like ADP to ATP and actually have more precursor energy for the for the cell.

Starting point is 00:17:34 Exactly. So you use the sunlight to generate. ATP. You use the photons of light to drive electron currents which generate ATP. And that is direct energy for your body to use. Very cool. Imagine mining Bitcoin, cheaper than buying on an exchange with direct payouts hitting your wallet like clockwork. Saz mining makes it real. You own the rig. No gimmicks. It's your asset pumping out Bitcoin every single day. No markup on hardware or electricity. They get paid when you get paid. Fully aligning incentives. mining Bitcoin below exchange cost is a great way to DCA your stack. It's so simple, anyone can do it.

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Starting point is 00:19:15 Or I've also heard somebody that make the case that you really shouldn't be wearing sunglasses, that your eyes need to see the sun and natural light. We don't necessarily want to be filtering that. So I'm curious, your thought on both of those in terms of... Yes, 100%. I'm sorry, I was going to add, is the red light therapy of any value as well, too.

Starting point is 00:19:28 Sorry for interrupting you there. Yes. blue light blocking glasses, I started using them a few years ago, and I would say they were definitely life-changing. Really? Yes. I wear them every night after sunset. Even when I go out, I wear them. I don't care if I look funny in red lenses.

Starting point is 00:19:49 It's your problem, not my problem. So the way they work is, so blue light in nature are major. source of blue light in nature is sunlight. So if you are exposed to blue light after sunset, your body perceives this as if, oh, it's still noon time. So all your hormones and neurotransmitters that at 8 p.m. should be different than your hormones or neurotransmitters that your body releases at noon. But because all of these processes are controlled by the light that goes into your eye, to your brain, if you're giving your eye the signal that it's noon, then all your hormones in the body are going to be acting as if it's noon. So of course, there are skin receptors as well.

Starting point is 00:20:41 So, I mean, if you want to be 100% covered, you also want to cover your skin, which is a little bit more difficult to do. But the most important receptors are the ones in your eyes. So I'm not a big fan of many pills. I'm not a big fan of any of these gadgets. But I think blue light blogging glasses are definitely worth it. So that's the first part. With regards to sunglasses, sunglasses, in my opinion, are a shit coin. As I said,

Starting point is 00:21:13 in order for your body to generate the proper hormones and neurotransmitters that you need, it needs the entire spectrum of the sun going through your eyes. And it actually does a good job of it knows, the ratios of say red light in the morning, there's more red light in the morning, so that means it's the morning, there's more UV light at noon, that means it's noon, there's more red light in close to sunset. So your body kind of knows what the cycle is based on the rays of sun that you're getting through your eyes. This is how beautiful and genius the human body

Starting point is 00:21:50 is. By wearing sunglasses, you are blocking the important UV light that's going into your So your body kind of doesn't know the exact time of the day. And this can affect these hormones in your body and the proper recycling of them that occurs based on the signals that your eyes get. And then another important part of this is if people have an issue with sunburn, sunglasses can worse in sunburn.

Starting point is 00:22:18 Because the way you build a tan is it's how you generate melanin in your skin, which is the pigment that gives you that nice tan and acts as protection from UV light in the future, the signal to generate melanin is through the sun that hits your skin, but also the sun that goes through your eyes. So if you're not getting UV light in your eyes, you're not generating enough melanin,

Starting point is 00:22:44 and this can predispose you to getting sunburn in the future. Oh, wow. Huh. That's really interesting. You know, I have to say listening to all this, just on a human psychology level, what I'm taking from you, I'm really trying to take in. And I already kind of understood some of this based on things I've read from like Fiat food and other people in kind of, you know, the Bitcoin, low time preference space. But as you're talking about it, I'm thinking, you know, if you were coming at this from some kind of political leftist hippie-dippy type thing, because it could

Starting point is 00:23:16 easily be coming from that direction, I probably wouldn't be listening to you and taking it in as much. So I just, to me, it's really great hearing some of these what we'd consider alternative medicine ideas coming from somebody who I, I guess I trust because I get the sense that you share a lot of the same ideas and ethics as I do. I don't know. That's not really a question. It's just how human psychology works, just an observation. So yeah, thank you for sharing all this. Yeah, I mean, so the modern medicine has done a good job always of just slandering the other. Historically, you know, any school of thought, any school of medicine that did not practice pharmaceutical-based medicine, all these people were considered quacks. And now anything that's considered natural healing, natural treatment, you know, we just look at them as crazy hippie liberals and, you know, we have to ignore them.

Starting point is 00:24:15 But, you know, healing happens because of nature. We live in nature. We come from nature. We're not going to get better from pills made in a factory designed in a lab. We're going to get better by reconnecting with nature. And this, if I tell this to any of my medicine coworkers, they'll think I'm insane. But I'm glad I'm able to be on this platform to tell you guys, it's not insanity. it's just how the human body works and we have to respect it.

Starting point is 00:24:48 No, you know, I've, and I'm sorry to interrupt it. I've heard you make the distinction before and I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I don't believe you're coming from a place where you are completely shunning all of modern medicine. Like if you just suffered a car accident, you're going to a hospital and you're going to try to get fixed up with surgeons, with knives to make you better and not relying on crystal therapy. You know, so could you offer the distinction of, you know, what you may, mean when you say how modern medicine is sort of leading you down the trail always for the next pharmaceutical when in reality going back to what naturally works for your body is better. And

Starting point is 00:25:26 distinguishing that from those times where, yes, modern medicine has made some great advancements and there are times where it should be used. Yeah, 100%. I mean, I would much rather be in a car crash now than 40 years ago. The advances that we've done in the management of acute trauma is nothing short of miraculous. It's quite incredible what they can do. And in general, anything acute fractures, burns, intoxication, all of this, we do a very good job of handling that. The issue is that quick fix approach doesn't work when you try and extrapolate it to chronic

Starting point is 00:26:06 disease. And the reason is that chronic disease happens because there is some dysfunction, some issue in your lifestyle. So unless you address that issue, you're never going to fix this. You're just applying band-aids. And the way modern pills work is that the search for the magic pill always is they see that a specific disease process, say someone is getting joint pain. They look at what sort of compounds are being overactive when this person gets joint pain? What sort of molecular pathways are being activated?

Starting point is 00:26:46 And so they identify certain molecules, and they try and block the receptors for these molecules. And what that does on a basic level is that it's only hiding the event for result that's causing the pain. The trigger is the pathway that's leading to the pain is not the root cause of the pain. This is just what your body is doing to signify something. What's causing pain is that there's probably some inflammation in the body. And where is this inflammation coming from? That's where traditional medicine tried to look at.

Starting point is 00:27:21 So what's in your diet that's affecting this? What's in your lifestyle that's affecting this? Are you sitting wrong? Is your posture wrong? These are all the factors that you need to look into rather than just look for a pill that hides the symptom. Because what do you do when you hide the symptom with a pill? You're not getting rid of the root cause and it's going to manifest elsewhere. So, okay, he's not going to.

Starting point is 00:27:43 He's not going to have joint pain anymore, but does that mean that the joint is not getting destroyed from whatever wrong he's doing to it? It's not. And so that's the issue with extrapolating this one pill approach to chronic disease. I mean, this seems like it comes down to something that we all kind of abide by anyway in the Bitcoin ethos of low time preference. You know, I've had chronic back issues, for instance, for a long time. And I saw a bunch of different from people that said, oh, we'll try this thing. And, you know, they kind of have their handbook of like, okay, when you see XYZ, I do A, B, C to your back. And I finally found somebody who was a physical therapist who really took the time to look at specifically what was going on with my particular

Starting point is 00:28:26 issue and made this say, hey, you come in like three days a week. I'm going to work on you. Then it was two days a week. Then once a week. Then once every other week. But I haven't had back pain in a couple of years with this guy, but I still go for maintenance every single month because my time preference is like I'm willing to put in the work in order to have a better back long term. And it sounds like some fancy new Bitcoin idea, but this is just an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This is what we've been saying for centuries. Yep. The incentives with the system don't align that way.

Starting point is 00:29:01 And there's just the simplest way to think about this is that the system is captured. the system is not built to make people better. It's built to make deep pockets deeper. It's very interesting. I'm curious, well, actually, quick side note, too, because the first thing that I noticed as well is that when we were talking about the idea of treating the symptom, it's like not getting back to the root cause being the issue, being the money, right?

Starting point is 00:29:25 Everyone's running around the fiat world trying to be like, okay, houses are too expensive, and we can't afford anything. But very few people are taking all the steps back. The system is not built to make people better. It's built to make people better. It's built to make the money system. The first issues you might have happened were that you were eating like shit 10 years ago, and we're going to try and rectify things now.

Starting point is 00:29:42 I want to touch on two things if we can. Maybe we'll start with microbiome. Because we're talking about chronic disease. I used to work in microbiome research, particularly for targeting chronic illnesses. And I'm curious if you have any insight regarding specifically that, if it's something of consideration or if it's something that really just can rectify itself and it gets some better improvements from a change in diet. Because it's funny how even a lot of the stuff that we were directly looking at,

Starting point is 00:30:06 at, they rarely looked at food. We're studying microbiome. We're studying gut flora and effects on compounds and drugs and behavior, but it's like they're eating mouse chow. Like, that's shit food. I'm just curious if you have any thoughts on that. Yeah, I mean, the effects of the microbiome on the health is very, very important. It's humongous. You have more bacteria cells in your gut than you have cells in your body. So this is how huge the microbiome. is. And they're not just sitting there. They're releasing compounds. They're helping us to digest food. They're releasing hormones and neurotransmitters. So they have a very important function in the body. The way your lab and other labs are looking at the microbiome is a bit wrong, though, because

Starting point is 00:30:54 what every researcher is hoping for is, oh, so one day I'm going to discover that this one specific strain of bacteria, if I'm able to give it in a pill form, all these problems. will go away. So that's their fiat sort of thinking. But the way to think about it is what sort of things help the microbiome get better? And of course, the answer is diet. Even if you eat crappy things every once in a while, if you have overall a good diet, a good diversity of nutrients, a good that will drive a good microbiome in your diet, in your gut. And also, this is something that very few people talk about. But actually, your light environment. also affects the

Starting point is 00:31:38 kinds of bacteria that you have, you know, your gut and how they act as well is also dependent on the light that you receive. Really? That's also very important. Could you tease that apart a little? Because I find that very fascinating because, again, in these research environments, it's unnatural environment under fluorescent lights, under a set, usually 1212 kind of rhythm for lights on,

Starting point is 00:32:02 lights off. Maybe they'll turn on a red light if you've got to go in there and do something. You can talk a little bit more about how the light is impacting the microbiome. Yeah, so, I mean, there's not that much work about this. Dr. Jack Cruz, who I really respect, talks a lot about this. He's shown, he's talked about studies where they've looked at, you know, tribes in Africa that haven't been touched by industrialization, and they go to these tribes and they test their microbiome.

Starting point is 00:32:30 They test it before on their regular diet, and then they test it afterwards after they've put them on candy for a couple of weeks. and they see that their microbiome hasn't changed. And what his theory is is that because their microbiome is, the microbiome is more dependent on the light that they're getting. If they're always in natural light and not being exposed to blue light, then the proper bacterial colonies are always forming and prospering. And it's pretty fascinating.

Starting point is 00:33:01 I haven't really read that much research about it because it's a very new field. But it makes sense to me. Yeah. Also, I don't suggest that people go eat candy if their light environment is fine. I was going to say, like, as long as I spend time on the beach, I can switch to a strict Kit Kat diet. Yeah, I don't know if you should take it that literally, but yeah. Just to kind of, I want to put a little bit of a bow on the light topic. And I did want to ask this as well, too, because obviously being in natural sunlight is going to be the ideal.

Starting point is 00:33:33 And particularly you're mentioning, like, sunrise, you know, at midday you're getting more UV, so maybe get out of the UV, but you don't necessarily want to not have any exposure to it, as well as then we have sunset. I've seen a lot of people using like the red light therapy. If you're having difficulty getting into the sun, you're working like me in a basement right now. Does the red light therapy, does it help at all, or is it still kind of out or not necessarily? Yeah, I mean, there's definitely a lot of research on this showing some benefits. mainly the main most of the research is based on muscle function muscle recovery there's some studies showing it can also help with glucose levels and glucose metabolism some people say it

Starting point is 00:34:15 helps for regrowing hair it definitely doesn't hurt but what I worry is that people would start using it instead of trying to optimize being in the sun and that's it's definitely no alternative for being in the sun. Nothing compensates for being outside in the sun. Because even the red light that comes from the sun, you're getting all the wavelengths, you know, from infrared all the way to the yellows, etc. But in red light, they'll give you one, two or three wavelengths and that's it. So there's some utility to it, but it's not as good as sunlight. Wonderful. Gary, I want to ask a few kind of like different topic questions. Is there anything else that you want to throw in there? I mean, you mentioned the sunlight thing and you mentioned burns before and how a lot of it can be regulated by producing the melanin in your skin just by making sure your eyes are exposed to sunlight.

Starting point is 00:35:10 I know some people will still want to use sunscreen. Two questions, I guess. What are your thoughts on sunscreen in general? And how much better are mineral sunscreens than the other kind of chemical hormonal ones? Is there a massive difference? Yeah. I mean, so sunscreen is a scam. People should try and avoid using sunscreen as much as possible. I've met a lot of people from all sorts of ethnicities all over the world.

Starting point is 00:35:40 And regardless of how pale you are, if you are able to play it right, you can get to the point where you're spending a lot of time outside in the sun without getting sunburned. Of course, it requires careful adjusting. and the way to do it is you want to start off by getting exposed to the sun in the early morning, as early as possible, because that's when there's as little UV as possible. You start off with as little UV as possible. You gradually build up your melanin in your skin so that you're able to sit in the sun closer to noon afterwards. There are certain skin types that even if you get very tan, and you're not going to be able to tolerate sitting at noon in the sun on the beach in Jamaica.

Starting point is 00:36:29 And we just have to be careful about that. You can always just use a hat, wear some clothing, or sit in the shade then. And you should just thrust your body. If you start feeling hot, then you have to get out of the sun. If someone is traveling, say someone lives in New York City and is taking a vacation to Puerto Rico in the winter, and they're not going to have time to adjust their melanin. Well, the issue with traditional sunscreen is that it contains a lot of hormonally active ingredients. So they work on our hormonal receptors, and they prevent our hormones from acting on these receptors.

Starting point is 00:37:11 So it's basically taking something that's blocking the effect of testosterone or estrogen or progesterone in your body, which is kind of a big deal. It's not only affecting your hormonal function. This also has a potential for affecting how malignancies were. work in the body. So it's kind of a big deal. So that's why I don't like traditional sunscreen. Mineral-based sunscreens are a little bit better. There are studies showing that nano-zinc oxide also has effects on the body. It can be toxic to certain organs. So try and look for non-nanobased sunscreen. A combination of like a zinc oxide sunscreen with some tallow is good.

Starting point is 00:37:54 And this is, you should only use it in the case that you're taking a vacation in the middle of the winter. But say you live in New York and now the spring is coming about, you should, you should, you have the time. You should start by seeing the morning sunlight and gradually building up your melanin so that during the sun, during, in the summertime, you are able to just sit at the pool all day and be fine with it. Wow. Matt's fantastic. I actually want to jump off that a little bit as well too because we mentioned mentioned hormones and testosterone specifically. We've seen the decline. it seems like men's testosterone levels have been tanking for years now going lower and lower and lower.

Starting point is 00:38:27 I'm curious if you have any thoughts onto what might be underlying that and what might be able to help people get it back up if that is the case. Yeah, I mean, so you make hormones from animal fats. You make hormones from cholesterol. So if you're telling people not to eat animal fats, you expect their testosterone levels to drop. That's one. The other thing is blue light, if you're exposed to blue light at night, and a lot of these, a lot of, a lot of, you know, guys are addicted to, you know, scrolling the internet at night. What that's doing is that it's elevating your cortisol level. And the raw material that you need in order to generate cortisol is the same raw material that you need to generate testosterone.

Starting point is 00:39:14 So your body is thinking, oh, this is, it's daytime. a lot of cortisol to keep this guy awake, it's going to shift away the synthesis from testosterone into cortisol. So that's going to drop your testosterone as well. So the diet and the light are a big part of this. I think that stress would then also be another contributor as well to the right, because if cortisol is using the same precursor, if stress levels are artificially high, you're going to be, what's called, basically using that supply for the cortisol in the same fashion as for the alertness and again, no to testosterone. Yeah, I'm careful with stress does cause that.

Starting point is 00:39:58 I'm careful with, you know, just this umbrella term of stress because you are able to have a very productive life if you are able to get the other stressors out of your system. So other stressors in the form of bad food and bad light, you're able to optimize for those, you have the energy level to be very so productive during the day that your work won't be as stressful as you think it is. And a lot of this work stress that we talk about,

Starting point is 00:40:30 it's because you're sitting in a cubicle under artificial light all day. And that's why you feel stressed. Interesting. Okay, very cool there. Pivoting for a second, then, I want to kind of explore a little bit more about the relationship between Bitcoin and medicine as well. So I want to get into kind of what would what would patient doctor relationships look like? What might medicine look like on a Bitcoin standard?

Starting point is 00:40:51 Where would you see it kind of progressing? But before I do, because you probably have some interesting insight on this as well, is in the current Fiat corrupt system or maybe even going back through the past, I'm curious in who your mind, the biggest villain in this sort of system in setting it up and running it is. Who's one of maybe the bad guys that's created the terrible system we have today? Yeah, so, I mean, it, the entire process started with this, it's called the Flexner Report. It was written in 1910. So that was around the time the American Medical Association was formed.

Starting point is 00:41:27 And at that time, their stated goal was to standardize medical education in the entire United States so that, you know, all the curricula are up to the standards that they want. And so they hired this guy called Abraham Flexner, who was a high school teacher, had no experience in medical education. medicine to draft a report of how can this be done. How can we standardize education? And his recommendations were that any medical school not teaching what he called the scientific method, which is pharmaceutical-based medicine, all these medical schools need to be shut down. So at that point in the 1910s, 60% of medical schools in the U.S. were shut down.

Starting point is 00:42:09 Wow. And these, yes. And these were the medical schools teaching. things that actually worked. Natropathy, homeopathy, osteopathy. So that is the biggest, that is why people are so unhealthy these days.

Starting point is 00:42:25 That's why medicine is so bad these days and it goes all the way back till then. And since then, there's just been a huge media campaign to tell people that, no, no, no, no, pharmaceuticals work, all these other specialties are quacks and there's been actual efforts

Starting point is 00:42:43 to, you know, If someone is recommending a treatment that is not in the guidelines, you know, he's held liable, we'll put him in jail, we'll take out, take away his license. So there's been active efforts to do that. All of this, you know, it happened, it happened in 1910. What also happened in that era, Bitcoins would know this, the creation of the infamous Federal Reserve. Oh, yeah, that thing. Exactly. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:43:09 That Jekyll Island little creature. Exactly. So all of this, it's no coincidence that it all happened at the same time. And in order to, you know, this random doctor in middle of nowhere, Wisconsin, in order to go and prosecute them for how they're treating their own patients and put them in jail if they're not practicing our own medicine or shut down his medical school because it doesn't adhere to the standards that we care about. that takes money to do that. And if you have an infinite amount of money from the money printer, that's how you're able to keep this running. And this is why Bitcoin will hopefully fix this.

Starting point is 00:43:52 Beautiful. So with that then, Bitcoin standard, we're moving forward, like immediately, especially from the Canadian perspective here, right? As soon as I try and tell everybody, like, look, you can't really tax on Bitcoin either as well, too. The idea of removing their, like, public health care, they just lose it. Regardless of how atrocious it is, how wrong it's been, how worse it's getting, it's growing an administrative size. Like I remember we're talking this weekend about it. It's something like the population of Alberta is like two, three times larger.

Starting point is 00:44:19 But the admin for Alberta health services is a 20x, but you're getting way worse in terms of quality. So fiat is terrible. We're moving to Bitcoin. Where do you see the, how do you see it actually evolving? What would Bitcoin medicine look like? Yeah, I mean, so, you know, having national health insurance, having, you know, government cover this comes from a good place. You know, people get into bad accidents and they have huge medical bills that they can't cover.

Starting point is 00:44:54 And it does make sense to have an insurance company that would cover this or the government cover this. Traditionally, before government got involved in this business, people were in closer societies with each other. someone was attached to a church and if something bad happened, the church would raise funds for that person and that's how it used to work and that's, you know, Fiat has done a job of trying to replace

Starting point is 00:45:24 human relationships with government. And so you would still have some sort of societal safety net for these crazy events. And that's important. I don't think that your day-to-day doctor visit and your day-to-day doctor appointments should be covered by insurance. Because it's kind of like an open buffet for every day. If you're not paying for something, you're going to start and abuse it.

Starting point is 00:45:56 And then it just removes the free market from the process. And so this is a very important distinction to make because right now, if someone gets a gets knee pain, they want every test in the world done for it. But if there's a price attached to what you're asking for, then their perception of what the pain is and their perception of how far they're going to go with it is going to be a part of the consideration. That said, the prices that we see nowadays in medicine in the Western world are just hyper inflated by the fact that insurance companies cover everything.

Starting point is 00:46:34 So it's just, it's a very complex process. And Andy Shinover from Crowd Health has done a very good job of talking about this. And his company's model is quite impressive in the way that they've kind of maneuvered away from the system and are still able to help people by directly paying cash to physicians and to hospitals to get away from all this corrupt system. And I think the future is closer to that, things similar to that, direct. pay you paying your physician directly based on how they treat you, etc. Very interesting. I'm curious if you see, because I've always had the idea in my mind that it might move

Starting point is 00:47:13 to something almost along the lines of like an ongoing relationship directly with your doctor. And hopefully the idea there being that it would incentivize prevention because the doctor doesn't want to necessarily have any expensive interventions. But it could even be like, it could basically be like a subscription model. Like I have a relationship with you. I'm paying you, I don't know, that we'll just say 500 US per month or whatever it might be. And you're just in charge of keeping me healthy, whatever that kind of might. entail?

Starting point is 00:47:37 100%. The current model is built. The more healthcare interactions you have with a physician, with a hospital, with pharmacies, the more money that everyone makes. So there's no incentive to keep you healthy. There's models now in operation in the U.S. and in Canada, called direct primary care, where you pay your physician a standard fee per year and per month or per month, and you can see them as many times as you need.

Starting point is 00:48:06 So at that point, the physician's incentive is to keep you healthy so that he doesn't have to see you that much. And that makes sense. Incentives align in that case. Very cool. Gary, do you have any thoughts on that? Yeah. You know, we talked about coming up with a future Bitcoin standard and a wonderful future world. All this gets better. We have flying cars.

Starting point is 00:48:23 Everybody gets laid. It's fantastic. But, you know, until we get to that point, we're still in the Fiat model. And some things obviously are more expensive in the Fiat model, like meat. And fortunately, I'm in a situation where I can afford that. But to the person who say may not be able to afford a steak for every meal and is just relying on these cheap processed foods to get by, what are some advice you might have for them to try to get the animal fats

Starting point is 00:48:51 and the animal nutrients that they need while still keeping their costs down? Yeah, I mean, it's tricky. And also there's like a kind of a Fiat mindset where I need all you need a lot of things in order to replace meat but once you have meat you don't need all these other things so ground beef is a great way to start there's very cheap ground beef everywhere there's very cheap cuts of meat you know that the leaner ones

Starting point is 00:49:22 that can do a good job organ meats are also relatively cheap you can get a lot of bones to make bone broth you can get it from your butcher basically for free so that's a good way to start If you're replacing the fats that you're cooking with and eating with animal fats, they might be expensive, but they go a lot longer. You can use them for a lot longer than you can use oils, say. So that also helps.

Starting point is 00:49:53 So that's a good starting point. And you know, you eat better. Hopefully that makes you feel better. you'll be more productive, you'll be happier. And this is a good place to start, even if it's just a little bit more ground beef every day. Yeah, to your point, when I started having a greater meat-based diet, I didn't feel as hungry as often. I didn't feel like I needed to constantly snack. So I think there is something to that.

Starting point is 00:50:19 Thank you, Dr. Amos. Yeah. All right. I have a question that I'll probably get slapped down by the good doctor on, but I'm very curious. I'm very curious. I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on nicotine in particular. not tobacco, but specifically nicotine as a compound. Yeah, so this is a very, very deep rabbit hole.

Starting point is 00:50:38 I have not gone as deep as I would like to there. Nicotine is a natural substance. It exists not only in tobacco. It exists in eggplants. It exists in tomatoes. You don't see people are getting addicted to eggplants or to tomatoes. I know. I've met some crazy vegans.

Starting point is 00:50:57 Yeah, them, but yeah. So there's some talk out there that nicotine is not really the most addictive thing about cigarettes. It's actually the other additives that they put on the tobacco. And also all the bad thing that happened from tobacco, a lot of them could be due to the pesticides that they put on the tobacco plants. So the rates of lung cancer, all these sort of illnesses have gone up after we started using all these artificial fertilizers. So that's one school of thought.

Starting point is 00:51:36 How, if you're able to get like 100% organic tobacco, is that good for you or not on the long term? I don't know. Hopefully there are people studying this. I don't mind. I don't see an issue with nicotine itself. And some people report even that it could be good for your health. So I don't know that much about it.

Starting point is 00:51:59 Interesting. That's okay. As long as the judgment is still waiting and we still have some open question there, that's great for me. That means I can continue all my fun little habits on the on the side that keep me alert for these conversations. Beautiful. And speaking of habits, we were talking about testosterone before. Would you recommend that I increase my porn watching to tell my testosterone?

Starting point is 00:52:23 Yeah, I mean, in moderation. In moderate. Yeah, fair enough. The classic, the classic in moderation. This is actually like this is something that I think a lot of men should look more into. But the more men should be aware of like semen retention techniques and what that entails. Because it really, it kind of unlocks the next level of you as a human being if you're able to go for a while without ejaculating. Actually, yes.

Starting point is 00:52:52 Please continue. I wanted you to expand upon that a bit more as well too. Because in the other side that I've heard the argument is prostate issues if you're not. Yeah. I've heard that too. Yeah, I mean, so I've heard both aspects. I think also in moderation, like if you have a partner and you're having sex regularly, there's nothing wrong with that.

Starting point is 00:53:10 But if you want to try for a bit, go a month without it and see how that makes you feel. You are going to get to a point where you're a lot more sharp, you're a lot stronger, you're a lot more kind of aggressive, but in a good way. It's something to look into. And I think, I mean, rather than men wasting, there's a saying in like a tau medicine that it takes one four drops of blood to make one drop of semen because semen has just has so much nutrients and it's so difficult for your body to generate so there's a lot of energy that your body is putting into generating the

Starting point is 00:53:47 semen and if you are just going there wasting it on porn hub it's taking away a lot of your vital energy and there are techniques where you you do is you try and recycle the energy. I don't want to be too graphic and how you do that. People can look it up. And rather than, you know, waste the energy by masturbating, you can recycle the energy and see how it'll change your life, give you energy, and it'll also give you more energy to go out there, talk to women, hopefully find a partner that you can practice consensual loving sex with. that that is the best way to deal with that energy.

Starting point is 00:54:34 Cool. I love how this has become the most professional Bitcoin circle jerk at the end that ever possibly could have happened. And I absolutely love it. Beautiful, beautiful. Okay, so stop dumping every night, get in the sun, eat your meat. You're going to be in a much, much better position. And of course, stack Bitcoin so they can get to that better society.

Starting point is 00:54:53 And Dr. Amos, this has been absolutely fascinating and interesting. Oh, and I'm allowed to have nicotine, which is great. please tell us where can you go to check out your work if they want to book you if they want to work with you and get you as a consultant for health where can they go for that as well too yes so I'm at amosmd.com I'm on Twitter I'm most active on Twitter at Amoos MD

Starting point is 00:55:12 I also have an Instagram with the same handle feel free to shoot me a message or email love to talk to people if you enjoy this episode with Dr Amos please do like share and subscribe and check out the previous episode with Phil Champagne on Bitcoin versus Altcoins Thank you.

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