The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #2035: The Medical Industrial Complex Is Making Us Sicker by Design

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

[01:23:16 – 01:27:24] — Cholesterol Myth, Statins, and Cognitive Decline Refutes the link between cholesterol and heart disease, critiques the use of statins, and explains how they contribute to memory loss by impairing mitochondrial function. [01:40:53 – 01:43:33] — Spike Protein Damage and Fertility Concerns Links mRNA vaccine-induced spike protein accumulation in reproductive organs to a global fertility crisis, citing observed autoimmune diseases and turbo cancer cases post-vaccination.[01:53:29 – 01:58:27] — Treating Vaccine Clotting with Enzymes and NAC Outlines a protocol using enzymes like lumbrokinase and an enhanced NAC formulation to reverse microclotting and spike protein persistence in long-haul COVID patients.[01:58:29 – 01:59:39] — Bacteriophages and Antibiotic Resistance Praises bacteriophage therapy as a targeted alternative to antibiotics and criticizes its abandonment in favor of pharmaceuticals, linking this to rising antimicrobial resistance.[02:01:26 – 02:04:38] — SSRIs, Mental Health, and Nutrient Deficiencies Critiques widespread SSRI prescriptions, emphasizing magnesium, iodine, and vitamin D deficiencies as underlying causes of depression and anxiety in young patients.[02:14:43 – 02:17:31] — SSRI Withdrawal, Loneliness, and Atheism Trends Explores the challenges of getting off SSRIs, with emphasis on individualized treatment and social patterns such as loneliness, atheism, and lack of purpose among depressed patients.[02:26:27 – 02:29:41] — Immune System Boosting and Sunshine Debate Advocates sunlight and antioxidant synergy (e.g. ALA, vitamin C, CoQ10) as immune boosters; challenges conventional views on sunlight causing skin cancer, linking melanoma instead to lack of sun exposure.[02:31:28 – 02:40:14] — DMSO and Boron for Pain, Bone, and Hormonal Health Promotes DMSO combined with boron for arthritis and testosterone boosting; includes detailed background on absorption, safety, and additional applications.[02:40:15 – 02:45:19] — Leaky Gut as Root of Autoimmune Disease Describes how gluten-related intestinal damage can lead to autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and Hashimoto’s; outlines a multi-supplement gut-healing protocol.[03:00:25 – 03:03:54] — Medical Industrial Complex and Generational Health Decline Critiques a profit-driven healthcare model that fosters chronic illness for repeat business and links rising childhood illness and birth defects to vaccine exposure and poor nutrition.[03:06:12 – 03:17:16] — Thyroid Dysfunction and Comprehensive Testing Approach Explains the biochemical complexity of thyroid function and criticizes mainstream thyroid testing, advocating for broader lab panels and natural hormone therapies.[03:20:16 – 03:23:19] — Blue Light, Circadian Rhythm, and Melatonin Suppression Describes how artificial lighting and sunglasses disrupt melatonin production, emphasizing the need for natural sunlight exposure and avoidance of electronics during sleep.[03:48:28 – 03:52:20] — Economic Collapse, Oil Crisis, and CBDC Transition Argues that current global conflict and economic chaos are engineered to collapse the dollar, spike oil prices, and drive public acceptance of central bank digital currencies.[03:59:24 – 04:00:05] — Grassroots Support for Independent Media Encourages community-driven funding of alternative media, rejecting corporate censorship and highlighting the role of listener support in sustaining truthful broadcasting. Follow the show on Kick and watch live every weekday 9:00am EST – 12:00pm EST https://kick.com/davidknightshow Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

Music In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. The The So Thank you. Good morning and welcome to the David Knight show. I'm your guest host this morning. I'm Karen Carpenter from Knights of the Storm and along with myself we have our co-host Jason Barker and Ashley Think Change Repeat. And we're hopeful that later on in today's show, our fourth member, Angry Tiger, Franco Matei, will join us. He's at the veterinarian with his beloved canine companion, Bouncer the Dude Dog. So prayers go out to Bouncer the Dude Dog.

We're honored to be with you this morning as a way of chipping in and helping out the Knight family or praying for Travis and his family to have a great visit with their family in Texas. And that David will enjoy the show today and continue to improve. We appreciate so much the giving, your giving spirit and wisdom and insight

and all the years that you've been with us and served in such a noble and kind, selfless way. So we thank you for that, David Knight. Today we have pre-recorded on Sunday, we wanted to have Dr. LaGuardia live. He is an awesome functional medicine doctor, but we ended up recording on the evening of Father's Day. We covered quite a few topics. So we're gonna go ahead and roll that interview. How are you doing this morning?

Jason, you wanna add anything? Yeah, I'm doing good. For some reason we didn't kick off live on KIK and the other platforms, but we are on Rumble Live. So I will try to fix that during the stream if I can, if it allows me. Okay. We are on Rumble Live so I will try to fix that during the stream if I can if it allows me. Okay. We are on Rumble Live so. Okay. Good morning Ashley, how are you? Good morning Karen. I'm very well. I'm very happy to be here with you both today and

looking forward to the show. Right okay. Yeah it's really an honor to be here. Okay. Dr. LaGuardia, Dr. Ralph LaGuardia, author of the Doomsday Book of Medicine. All right, here we go. This is Dr. LaGuardia. We had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. LaGuardia a month or two ago, and we also have our co-host Jason Barker and Ashley, Think Change Repeat. So great to see everybody today. Dr. LaGuardia, would you like to fill us in a little bit on your background in case people aren't familiar with you? Sure. I'm an internist by training. I was a surgeon first and I switched to internal medicine and but I'm triple boarded in internal medicine, bariatrics, which is weight loss and geriatrics,

which is care of the elderly. However, for the most part, I'm a functional medicine doctor, meaning that I study how the body functions and I start all treatment based on how the body functions first, because a lot of disease is dysfunction of certain parts of the body. And I've cured a lot of things over the years by just getting back to the basics,

using functional medicine and addressing things how it starts. But in my practice in Connecticut, I'm integrative. I combine traditional and alternative medicine together into a pretty potent model. Do you find that you're able to, over time, and with some adjustments to supplements and diet and lifestyle, lessen

the amount of medication that people tend to take? Oh yeah, definitely. I've done that many times. Sometimes I get patients who come in with what's called polypharmacy. They've got 35 meds. I look at them and I say, this is ridiculous. I say half your problems are interactions between the medications. And so I'll set them down if they're agreeable because it's a liability thing as well. I'll say to them, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna cut back, I'll give you six of these.

You know, these are the ones you don't really need right now. We'll add them in if we need them again. Certainly it runs a risk that, you know, things might fall apart. You've been on these for 30 years, but invariably it works out i've in fact never once has it not worked out yeah my mother is god bless her i love my mother she's uh 87 she just turned 87 a couple of weeks ago she had a

reaction uh to medication and she thought she thought she was dying. It's my brother is EMT paramedic. So he came over and took her vital signs and she did go to the doctor after she felt better. And the doctor said that she thought that it was a medication interaction and that she had introduced over the counter cold medicine to the medication she takes. And she was gonna pass out.

So geriatrics is one of your specialties. My mother has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. What would you recommend for something like that? It's a tough one. There's not much to be done for that. Because, you know, at that point, she's 87. And right in her vasculature is gone, for the most part. And so there's not much you could do other than a support hose and things like that. But for vascular health, one of the key things and it's ignored almost universally is vitamin K2. It was interesting, as medicine evolves, sometimes we stumble into things,

but there were, for years we were treating women with osteopenia and osteoporosis. Osteopenia is a stage before osteoporosis with calcium. So, oh, you need more calcium for your bones. Got to give me more calcium. Got to give me more calcium. We did that for decades and it never worked. In fact, women were getting atherosclerosis. They were getting hardening of the arteries because of the calcium deposition there. It wasn't reaching their bones until we realized that vitamin K2, which is relatively unknown. Vitamin K, everyone knows, it's got to do with clotting.

That's the K from us from German. But K2 is interesting. It turns out to be key to a lot of health. What it does is it actually moves calcium from the blood vessels to the bones and teeth. And so what it does amazingly is it helps hardening of the arteries and it builds stronger bones and stronger teeth.

You know, it's all part of that complex of fat soluble vitamins. You know, fat soluble vitamins are the key to health. There is no doubt in my mind. And a lot of the diseases that Americans are suffering from are from this low fat craze. Animal fat's really good for you. There's no other way, and I'll repeat this

for your listeners, there's no other way to get fat soluble vitamins except from eating animal fat. Besides supplementation, but you're not gonna get that in your diet by trimming the fat off of meat or for your steak or anything like that. You're taking away all the vitamins there. And people do that routinely and ignore it. You see, only in the United States

do they get cuts of meat with no skin on it. And always the fat trimmed off. in most cultures around the world, they eat from nose to tail. They eat the entire animal, the organs, the, and there's tons of nutrients there. They say the organs are the most nutrient rich. Oh, here's a little fun fact is the, the, you know, sitting around the table, chewing the fat, that, that term that we use, that was actually something that would happen. And they'd have it hang in there. And, you know, this back in like the, uh, I dunno, maybe 1800 stuff like that. Uh, somebody would come over and it was kind of a treat to sit there in the

smoking chair, having your conversation. And you grab a piece of fat and just chew on the fat. So, um, that's where that thing comes from. There was actually a dentist, Weston Price, who in the 1930s, he was studying his patients and realized that the American patients had narrowed, thin faces and crooked teeth and bad teeth. And even in family and he noticed families, immigrant families, the immigrants were much healthier.

They had broad smiles. They didn't have crowded teeth they didn't have overbites they have cavities they were much more vigorously good health however once in the same families those immigrants adopted the American diet they developed the exact same problems so he on his own dime went around the entire world and looked at primitive cultures and studied what they ate. And he called it X factor because he didn't know what it was. It was vitamin K2. That made the difference in all of these diets, you know,

that and the other fat soluble vitamins. And he realized that fat was where it was at, you know. And it's so true. I mean, you can't be, I mean, I see people all the time with bad eczema and stuff. I said, God, you gotta get on fat. What do you mean fat for my skin? I go, yeah, for your skin.

And cure them and stuff and give them zinc and other things. You have to be a little bit careful with zinc. It's great stuff to supplement, but you have to supplement copper with it. It causes copper depletion over time. The great news now is that there are so many supplement companies, a lot of them are junk, but a lot of them make really good things where they combine zinc and copper for you. In the right ratio you need it. You need about 15 to 20 to one. You don't need much copper. You only need a little bit, but

you need it long term. And so it's great. There's a lot of supplements, for example, vitamin D comes with magnesium and K2 now. You know, you need magnesium to process vitamin D or it doesn't work. And what happens is if you don't give K2 with it, you get too much calcium in the wrong spots. And so K2 helps mobilize the, because vitamin D causes calcium absorption. And so you're raising it, but you want it to go to the right spot. You want to go to the teeth and bones where it belongs. So if you supplement it with D with K2 and magnesium, that works great together.

I won't buy D3 without also K2, making sure I have that K2 source. The Weston Price Foundation, they've worked with the Children's Health Defense over the years. It's a great resource. They have a lot of several recipes for homemade formula using bone broth or different types of things.

If the mom doesn't can't nurse or the baby's adopted or whatever. So I use them fairly often as a resource. And they also provide resources to where to find good quality food from co-ops in your areas. They're a great service. And those pictures of the native peoples that eating the native, their diets, the healthy diets, those are amazing pictures.

It's mind boggling when you see it. There's actually a cool book called Jawsitten by a dentist and it's about facial structure And what he realized was once again Americans have a crowded face on that what he braces for that reason Besides the vitamin k2 and other things The force of mastication the force of chewing Helps your facial structure and you know And we're the only society in the world to give kids these baby food, this mush to eat. Oh, right, right.

And consequently, A, it's not good. There's a whole bunch of junk in it, besides heavy metals and all kinds of crazy they put in there that you wouldn't expect. But in addition to which, the act of chewing actually causes the face to broaden and be stronger and square the things you would expect normally in a face, the the the the

the the the the the the the the evolution that once we created fire, you know, when we were cavemen, we had smaller brains, bigger jaws, because we had to eat the unprocessed uncooked flesh. But once we created fire and

cooked it down to where it was easier to eat, then our jaws got smaller and the muscles that run up got smaller because they didn't need to be so big. And that's what allowed our brains to grow, you know, the cranium to develop larger. Now, I don't believe in all that, but there's science behind it. There's a theory behind it, you know. I go more for the theory of omega-3s influencing brain production. You know, we were eating along the coast, eating shellfish and different foods a lot of times and getting high omega-3s, which helped brain production since the brain is mostly fatty acids and protein and stuff you know there's you know there's a lot of evolution and thought currently about Alzheimer's and other things that's really fascinating stuff. I don't know if you know

guys know about type 3 diabetes. I've heard it, Alzheimer's rebranded as that. It's true, you know, Alzheimer's turns out, well, most dimensions turn out to be energy problems in the brain. The brain doesn't have the energy it needs to properly function. Once again, as a functional medicine doctor, I love that going right back to basics. But it's interesting because the brain has two systems for energy. It has what the rest of the body has, glucose that it uses. But in addition to which, it uses fatty acids, and medium and short chain fatty acids as a backup. And so what I do in patients who have early dementia

is I make sure that they limit their glucose intake. It's not gonna help them, it's only gonna build up. And of course what happens is the brain, when the mitochondria don't have enough energy, they miss form proteins in the brain. And those miss form proteins are useless. Protein function for the listeners that don't know is totally based on morphologyology on the shape of the protein

That determines its function a misshapen protein has no receptor to bind to and has no function And so in the brain tau proteins ta you and amyloid bills up builds up within the brain because the builds up within the brain because the mitochondria don't have enough energy to properly produce them. And eventually this buildup kills the neuron and damages the brain. But as the brain has less and less energy over time, it kind of optimizes what it'll use.

So in the beginning when a patient has dementia, you know, they're a little pleasantly befuddled and stuff. As time progresses, they shut down less and less, their memory keeps going. Eventually, they just breathe, eating, then they stop eating and they're just breathing, you know, because their brain is looking for, it's just trying to keep it at a basic level or survive. Early in Alzheimer's, I put patients on medium chain triglycerides. And that works very well because it provides the

alternate energy source their brain needs. And so it circumvents the type three diabetes that's going on in the brain. Follow me. And so open an oil you last time you recommended that everybody take some coconut oil every day Yeah, well coconut medium change or glycerin. That's why yeah, and you can't buy the MCT Yes, drinks and in powders and capsules, right? Right, you can just use some coconut

I used to coconut oil to cook with Let me ask you this doc. Well, I know we did an episode on brain fog in the foxhole. It's been a couple of years now, I think. Would that help with just general brain fog? Like people aren't developing dementia? I mean, brain fog, I think, could be an indicator that you might be in danger of going into that dementia or Alzheimer's type thing.

Would that help people? Yeah. A lot of things cause brain fog. So it's really hard to say, cause most of it's temporary. You know, um, yeah. So what I do is, yeah, I give them medium chain triglycerides early and try to use that to circumvent it. But there's also, I put them on Fiji water. Yeah.

You know, Fiji, I always have it for my grandson. Right. It's the best water on the planet because it's so high in silicone. Yeah. You know, Fiji water. I always have it for my grandson. Right. It's the best water on the planet because it's so high in silicone. Right. And silicone oxide binds up aluminum. And a lot of the, a lot of dementia is aluminum accumulation in the brain. You see, aluminum has absolutely no function in the body. There's no need for aluminum. We don't need, there's no body process that uses, utilizes aluminum at all. And the body doesn't know how to process it.

So it's toxic for us. But we are swimming in a sea of aluminum because it's heavily in vaccines. It's an adjuvant in vaccines because it increases the function of the vaccine. And they cut it a lot with that, but it's in deodorants and a ton of things we apply to ourselves,

not to mention getting it from aluminum cans. And over there, what's also in what they're spraying in the sky. Well, yeah, it's in the soil big time. Fun fact, aluminum as we know it, as we use it in industry today does not exist in nature. And that's why, you know, it comes from bauxite. It has to be, so whoever invented aluminum was a genius because they figured out know it comes from bauxite it has to be so whoever invented

aluminum was a genius because they figured out how to take this bauxite stuff and make a lightweight metal it's not an alloy it's an actual pure pure thing but yeah i think that's why the body doesn't like it there's no receptors for it there's nothing for it because it didn't exist in nature right but you know with the, you have to drink a liter and a half of Fiji water a day. And it takes about three or four months to have any effect. However, studies show it's about 45% to 46% improvement in patients with moderate Alzheimer's,

which is pretty impressive. There's no medication that does anything, by the way. And it's well-known among the autism community, the parents keep Fiji water water and some have it delivered regularly So that their kids are drinking Fiji water and they don't drink a liter and a half a day, you know But for a small child just down down to my adult. Yeah, you answer the day, you know is helpful Yeah, fresh water is key is key. I mean people don't people underestimate hydrating themselves with fresh water. It's very important for you.

But getting back to your brain fog, I just want to mention one thing. What I do is I give patients methylated B complex. And the reason I use methylated as opposed to regular B complex is MTHFR mutations. 42% of the population can't process B vitamins and so they're toxic for them. It's not only that they can't process them. Amazing to me that the cardiologists never check for this. It drives me out of my mind. I send them patients all the time

and go, by the way, they have an MTHFR deposit and they look at me like we made- It's not a big moneymaker, I guess. Right. But it's so important because it causes elevated homocysteine levels as an intermediate because they can't process it. And homocysteine damages blood vessels and the heart. So in families that have MTHFR mutations, there's a very high incidence of hypertension

and heart disease and atherosclerosis in those patients. And it's so cheap and so easy to circumvent. It's cost pennies a day to take methylate to be complex. And so all patients that come in, I give them with Alzheimer's or early dementia stuff, I give them monthly a methylate to be 12 shots. In addition to which putting them on methylate to be complex every day, give them the Fiji water,

I give them the medium chain triglycerides and take it from there. And, you know, success rate, spotty, but better than zero, would you get with Aricept under medications that for years patients take and do absolutely nothing. I think a lot of that success may have to do with diet and the family's willingness to help the person cohere to a diet. So, my apologies for interrupting. I just wanted to ask a question, kind of getting back to your discussion on the importance of meat. If you would do a cholesterol myth busting right now, because I know that a lot of people, there's a lot of false information out there that people are told like your cholesterol is too high, you need to be on a statin. So I just

wanted to see if you would cover that in talking about the cholesterol conversation, what people need to know, and then the damage that taking statins can do to them. And I have a follow-up with that too. Okay. Yeah, the cholesterol myth, another thing that drives me crazy, Ansel Keys, who studied this originally, where this came from in the late 50s and early 60s, studied 28 countries with his theory that cholesterol had the heart problems. He threw out 21 of those countries because they didn't fit the data and just presented the seven countries he had. And that started to the whole cholesterol myth and saturated fat myth that did

endless harm, endless harm to the human body and to Americans health, not to mention their pocketbooks. Um, in addition to which statins suck, statins cause dementia, uh, you body and to American's health, not to mention their pocketbooks. In addition to which statins suck, statins cause dementia, they're just dangerous drugs. Once again, the cardiologists, I don't know why they don't do this either. They don't give COQ. If you're going to give a statin, at least give CoQ10 with it because the pathway for statins depletes COQ10.

And COQ10 is essential for energy production in the cells. Consequently, the cells that require the most energy need it, muscles, heart, brain, things like that, need COQ10 to function properly. It's fat soluble as well, you have to give it with fat, just like A, D, E, and K, where you don't absorb them. But yeah, and so I put all patients who the cardiologists insist go on statins and the patients don't want to listen

to me and want to stay on. I say, okay, at least take 200 milligrams of COQ10 once a day with fat. But they routinely, they should just administer them together. By the way, I give a Q and O because that is, but it's not just an advertisement. It is the best absorbed COQ10.

And with all medications, it's all about absorption. It doesn't matter how much you give, it's how much you absorb it and use. And so it's so important to have the right form of medications. And can you explain to us a little bit, what is the mechanism that specifically causes the dementia associated with taking statins? And I feel like a lot of people will be put on a statin, and then they start having memory problems. But because we are not taught to be critical thinkers and question sort of the, you know, be, to be looking for symptoms after we start a medication, or like what Karen was talking about, mixing medications.

I mean, people are just not educated on that, but oftentimes they will start to have memory problems and repeating themselves and things like that. And nobody seems to pick up on that. But can you expound a bit on what would cause these memory problems that people have once they start taking symptoms? Myocardial, excuse me, mitochondrial dysfunction.

That's what it's all about. It interferes with the mitochondria, which are the powerhouses for the cell. They make all the energy. So they make ATP, adenosine triphosphate. That is the energy molecule. That's the currency your body uses for energy everywhere. Things that interfere with that production, such as statins, once again, we get into the energy balance in the brain. It's all about energy.

And that's what Alzheimer's is all about, you know, other than patients who have multiple infarcts, they've got strokes, multiple strokes, and that leads to dementia problems. But aside from mechanical stuff, the disease of the brain is an energy problem. So if you have a patient that comes to you that's as high, what do you consider a high cholesterol?

If you order a cholesterol panel, what results alarm you and which results to you are okay? And how do you fix it? I'm not a big believer in the cholesterol thing, so I don't push it very much on my patients. However, there are patients with familial lipid problems, hereditary, and that wind up with very high cholesterol, and those you have to treat. There's a gene mutation

that some people have trouble with that, isn't there? Right, yeah, it's familial hypercholesterolemia, but I don't worry, I look at the total cholesterol HDL ratio and I want that to be less than five. If that's less than five, I'm okay with things for the most part. Occasionally if I have a patient that has isolated very high triglycerides,

I'll treat that using prescription vaskepa, which is fish oil. It's pharmaceuticals, great fish oil. That works great for that. Also, by the way, helps their arthritis, helps them, it helps a lot of other things in them when you give it to them, their skin and their brain, everything else.

But, you know, that's the way I do it for the most part. And- That's what my cousin asked the question. He wanted me to ask you, how does he improve the ratio of his HDL and LDL? Should he be using fish oil? Yeah, well, it helps it, but exercise helps raise HDL a little bit.

Red wine helps a little bit. Ask an Italian doctor, what do you get for an answer? Red wine. But it's, you know, it's, the other thing I look for is LP little A. LP little A is fascinating. Linus Pauling got a Nobel Prize for it. Excuse me, I know a patent for it. And when he devised this,

because he found that LP little A is the key to heart disease. And what happens is LP little A is what the body uses to patch a damaged blood vessels, the endothelial, the lining of a blood vessel. And so when that's elevated, you know that there's endothelial dysfunction. It's not working.

The blood vessels aren't working properly and they're being damaged. And the body patches it with that. So to prevent that damage, you have to improve your collagen. It's all about collagen. Because collagen is the structural protein for the whole body. So if you have not performing collagen,

you don't have enough of it, it declines as we age naturally. But you could easily supplement collagen. You know, Jason alluded to earlier eating bone broth and things like that. Collagen is great. It's full of broth and things like that. It's just collagen is great. It's full of minerals and collagen and stuff. But you have to take vitamin C with it. Collagen without vitamin C doesn't work. It activates it.

So I put patients on who have high LP little A's. I put them on collagen, five grams, three times a day, and vitamin C with that. Usually about a thousand milligrams three times a day, and vitamin C with that, usually about a thousand milligrams three times a day. You know, and that will take six months to a year, but when they come back, their LP little a's will be low. And so that works very well for heart disease. That along with K2,

because the other piece for heart disease and blood vessel health is nitric oxide. You know, nitric oxide is so important for your health. I wrote a sub stack on it about a month ago that goes pretty much into it. But what happens is the blood vessel itself produces nitric oxide and that's what allows them to dilate and stretch and allow more blood flow as the blood vessel wall ages over time it gets atherosclerosis and heart disease that nitrogen oxide production drops right off you know but there are ways to circumvent it you you can take uh if you take dark green leafy vegetables

and you chew them well, in your mouth, the bacteria in your mouth will break them down to nitrates, which when they go to the stomach, will be converted to nitric oxide. However, there's a caveat there. If you're taking proton pump inhibitors to lower the acid production in your stomach, that blocks the production of nitric oxide. So, or if you use mouthwash, you'll kill the bad bacteria

that exactly I used. Yeah. So I have a question, Karen hate to jump in. But we got to do the disclaimer that the David Knight show is not medical advice. right? Dr. LaGuardia is a doctor. He is a doctor. That's right. So the question I have for the doc is when you give like on a show like this, when you're giving us this, this useful information that people may not know, you're kind of giving us a breakdown of how the body works. And maybe, you know, I don't want people to necessarily self diagnose themselves, even

though they know what's going on with their body, they could feel it. If they take this information to their doctor, and their doctor refuses, I guess that's the question is, do people get a good response from their doctor, or is the doctor, most doctors, kind of on that set path of medications? Are they going to be willing to listen to this

and maybe try some of these things, and run the proper test to see if it's working? kind of on that set path of medications? Are they gonna be willing to listen to this and maybe try some of these things and run the proper test to see if it's working? Yeah, I mean, yeah, well, yeah, the advice I give is general medical information is not specific and shouldn't be act upon or taken as medical, you know, medical advice because I'm not their doctor.

However, it's good, once again, getting back to functional medicine, I'm teaching them how things work and how to correct those things. All the things I recommend are harmless for the most part. They're natural, they have no side effects except beneficial stuff. So, but unfortunately, most doctors,

although they're very well intentioned, and they went into medicine with great intentions in mind, and they still think they're doing the best job for their patients, just don't know about this stuff. You know what I mean? I go to medical meetings frequently, and I bring my wife, and she just says the same thing to me every time.

I get up at the end, and I go, well, by the way, and I give them my opinion about stuff. Very polite to me. No one disparages anything I say. They don't even know what I'm talking about, 90% of the time and his crickets. And my wife says, why you bother? I have to tell them that somewhere. So getting back to what you said, if they go back to see their doctors,

I don't know. I think I'd say most of them won't be well received. And I'm finding also, I know my doc, my mom has a, is she, her primary moved and she really loved her primary. She felt like she listened to her. And so she had a cardiologist she, she respected. So she asked him some general health questions. He said, I can't comment. I cannot comment on those things. So I think there are a lot of doctors now, especially since the COVID era, that are sticking to the standard of care and to the prescribed pharmaceutical line of reasoning.

And they are worried about venturing off. I know if you have cancer I'm in on some cancer groups and a lot of people are seeing results with things like fan bend is all ivermectin high dose vitamin C It's unbelievable. Yeah, so but Then there's always a big discussion in these groups with thousands of cancer patients. Do I tell my oncologists that I'm taking these supplements? Do I tell my oncologists I'm taking Phenbendazole? And the vast majority of the cancer patients agreed to not tell their oncologist because their oncologists will refuse to treat them or will tell them that no, you should not take any

vitamins at all, but it's okay to eat whatever you want to eat, but don't take vitamins and make sure you show up for your chemotherapy. So there's a lot of people that are starting to rethink some of these things and take a little bit more responsibility for their own health. Yeah, you definitely have to. But getting back to the doctors. I mean in their defense where we're haunted by malpractice lawyers who just prey on us Everyone's been sued including me. There's no one gets out. You don't I've been in practice 40 years You don't get away without being sued a couple times by some cook somewhere and it makes you gun-shy it shakes you up

I mean, you know, I had a woman who had breast cancer. I found the lump. I said, do you kind of lump in your breasts? She was, I know I had that biopsy. It was negative. It was great. Okay, good. Wasn't true.

And she got pregnant. She couldn't get pregnant. And I helped her get pregnant. Cause I said to her, she was type A freak, you know, we'll just worry that it is so uptight. I said, listen to me, you're trying too hard to get pregnant. Here's what you do. Next time you're ready to ovulate,

book a hotel with your husband, a motel. Go away for the weekend, get a Johnny Mathis tape. I said, get some wine. She got pregnant the first time. She came back, but unfortunately she died later from the breast cancer. And they sued me and sued everyone else. And I said, hey, I found the lump. What do you want me to do? I found it.

She told me it was negative. And I still spent three months in court. Had to close my practice every day for three months with four other doctors. And they just tortured us all day, every day. You know, it was terrible. We won in the end, but two of those doctors quit quit practicing. Wow. It's traumatic. It's traumatic stuff. Yeah. You know, actually, I, I, I, I had a topic when we come back, Karen, can we talk about the, we're talking about, um, I want to ask the doctor about fertility rates in the West and we were just now talking about, you know, um, uh, well, that's perfect because doc just did a subsec on D H E A. Yeah, right

So that'll fly right in. All right. All right. We'll be right back folks You're listening to the David Knight Show. So let's talk, let me go ahead and do some plug-in while these out. So the doc has a book and we'll be talking about that book here in a little bit. If you go over to denightsofthestorm.com, make sure you put the Knights of the Storm, because if you just do Knights of the Storm, that's like a motorcycle club. They own that already, so I had to put the on there. But yeah.

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three year old review. Anyway, yeah, scrolling down, you'll see we've got infected by Dr. Ralph LaGuardia. We've got doomsday book of medicine and the Bible of alternative medicine, all three available on Amazon, you can go to our website, click on it, it will take you to the Amazon link where you can purchase it. Also, if you go to the bottom here, let me get back to where we were. Oh my goodness. All the way at the bottom of our read, you're going to see a link to Dr. LaGuardia's Substack, which we're getting ready to cover an article that he did recently. Click on that. It's going to take you to the docs, uh, substack. Um, I just actually became a paid subscriber today, doc. Yeah. Thank you very much for that. I saw that a while ago. All right. Back

to you, Karen. Well, we, let's cover DHEA and the infertility that we're seeing and that ties right in with long COVID I think and where the effects of the COVID vaccines possibly so just whatever you'd like to talk about about fertility DHEA that type of thing yeah well you know DHEA is a one of the master hormones of the body and it's it's the precursor to the sex hormones and so without DHEHEA, you can't produce estrogen and progesterone, testosterone, to a very lesser degree progesterone. And so the body uses that. I have a lot of patients who supplement with it

to raise their testosterone levels and their estrogen levels. However, it's kind of tricky. I had just a woman the other day, she was doing it on her own. And she said, when you run my levels, I ran her hormone levels, her testosterone was 10 times normal. I said, what's going on with you? And she goes, I said, you want DHEA? She said, yes.

And I said, we got to lower that. So it's not without some danger involved with it. There is a massive drop in fertility worldwide. It's not just the United States, not just in Western countries, it's in Asia, it's in Africa, it's everywhere. There's also a precipitous drop in male sperm counts. Sperm counts are plummeting.

And the quality of sperm. And the quality of sperm, right, exactly. It's even becoming a challenge in the porn industry. They're having, this is all over the world, it's a problem, but they're, yeah, and so that's leading to massive spikes in infertility. However, one of the greatest causes of it in the West, especially, has been the COVID vaccination.

We know that the spike protein preferentially goes to gonad, to testes and to ovaries, and causes an inordinate amount of damage there. You know, spike protein overall, long haul COVID is becoming so prevalent if you look for it. In my practice, I have a ton of patients with it who are forced to be vaccinated, most of them for their jobs and for various reasons and against

my advice took the vaccine. The vaccine will probably go down as a truly existential threat to mankind when the numbers finally all come in. Substac once again is ahead of everyone. Dr. Maccas has done a great job. McCullough, there's three or four people on there who just, Midwest Doctor, there's a few of them, who just do great work and report on the unbelievable amount of side effects and disease that we're seeing, autoimmune disease is off the wall.

It's people at the very end, you know, a lot of people, autoimmune is pretty much a silent disease initially. It takes a while before people know they have it. And so there's been an explosion of Hashimoto's, explosion of rheumatoid arthritis problems and exploded, you know, all these autoimmune related diseases, amino suppression overall. But the fertility things are off the wall. And on top of them, we have the nightmare of turbo cancers. Right. You know turbo cancer is so named because you die within weeks to a few months of

diagnosis. A young male is getting testicular cancer. It means world-class athletes die within two weeks of getting diagnosed and this is all over over. Did you see the article, the study that said that 60% of the eggs, uh, that would be primordial eggs that would eventually mature are affected by mRNA vaccine, 60%. And I was wondering if that would also translate into the, if the mother, a woman is carrying a baby, does that translate to the babies, the little girl's fetuses, also her ovaries? No one knows yet about that part. I do have a question, doc.

Um, we've a lot of this stuff like the, you know, uh, immune problems. Yeah. Um, we, we saw this early, just by the way this thing they advertise it would work even before it was released. We talked about some of these problems. A lot of them we didn't see coming. Some of them we kind of predicted. My concern is, is this just just the COVID mRNA shot or is it mRNA in general? And then what's your thoughts on the self-amplifying that last year, I want to say around October or September, October, some timeframe in Japan, they authorized the self-amplifying MRNA, which is supposed to, you get vaccinated and then that in turn, vaccinates me within proximity.

And then there was a big, they're calling it some, there's some name, I can't remember some celestial name, a new huge project just approved to develop mRNA vaccines. Yeah, mRNA vaccines, if you look at the history of them, have been an absolute disaster. 15 years prior to COVID, they tried and tried and what happened? Every lab animal died. Every one of them. Not 10%, not 50%. Oh yeah, side effects, all kinds of crazy stuff.

So they, okay, we can't have this in humans. And then they go in COVID and they circumvent all that and go, okay, we forget the animal studies. We're going right to the vaccine and these will be human studies for the most part. And lo and behold, here's where we are now with, you know, we're actually young girls looking wisely, looking for unvaccinated men as sperm donors

or fathers for their children. You know, the promise was initially that the messenger RNA would never affect the DNA because how things work is DNA produces RNA, produces proteins and then you go from there. And this by reverse transcriptase and other methods was able to reverse that, enter the nucleus and combine with the DNA. able to reverse that enter the nucleus and combine with the DNA. You know, that that so consequently, people who are vaccinated. Forever have their DNA changed and, and combined with with this virus. I brought this up with my primary when I was, you know, battling the shot in the

army, I asked him about reverse transcription and he said, oh, that could never happen. And I'm like, but look, I have this paper here. It's an actual scientific document. It's a research paper. It's peer reviewed. And they say that this is how it works scientifically is a doctor Google, you know, right. Yeah. But it definitely, it definitely has happened.

You know, now that being said, and you know, the study of, I love neurology, you know, being the right. Yeah, but it definitely, it definitely has happened. You know, now that being said, and you know, the study of, I love virology, you know, being the nerd that I am, but it's a study of viruses, real interesting because viruses over time, I think are how we evolve more than mutations and things like that. I think it's, you know, the mutation theory was always kind of strange.

You know, you mutate and lo and behold, this new cell develops that has these qualities that didn't have before. You know, the odds of that happening are so astronomically against you. However, acquiring viruses, viral DNA, and incorporated that into the human genome has happened forever.

15% of our genes are viral. 15%. I'm not talking about COVID before COVID. 15% were viral. Problem with COVID is it's an engineered virus. And so it was made by gain of function. That's finally coming out now. They finally say,, oh yes, we realize now that, you know, when the CIA first studied it, when it first happened, COVID came out, that was their deduction, that this was not a natural virus, and they could tell by the engineering on it. In fact, interesting today, I just saw a headline today

that they seized Fauci's computer and emails and his cell phone. So they're investigating him, which is good. Uh, that's caused more problems than any, anyone in history. Guys never wore a stethoscope in his life. Crazy advice. I mean, look at, look at back at some of the madness at the height of COVID. They were closing swimming pools. Filling in skate parks with sand. A swimming pools. Are you out of your mind? Filling in skate parks with sand.

A swimming pool. You're out in the sunlight. You're soaking in chlorine and heat. There are very few viruses that could survive that triple whammy. Much less respiratory viruses can survive it at all. And they ignored it.

It was my argument during COVID with the powers that be who tried to crush me repeatedly. I mean, I was a major target fellow because I was the only one saying, no, this isn't right. I'm not doing this. And they sent guys from infectious disease down to my office and debated me for three hours. And then, you know, we didn't convince each other. I didn't convince them. They didn't convince me. It was a standoff. But I said to them, I said, look, why is this virus different?

Every virus ever mutates in one direction. Less lethal, more contagious. Virus wants market share. The virus does not wanna kill you. It doesn't wanna kill the host. Right, it wants to be spread. All it cares about is finding a new host. It has no malevolence

towards you or anything. And so for an example, COVID, when it first came out, the original SARS came out, it was very lethal, 45% lethality. And for that reason, people got so sick, they went to bed and died. It didn't go anywhere. That was a dead end for that virus. It didn't spread at all. A virus needs you out. A virus needs you circulating. It needs you among other people. So everyone was saying initially during COVID, well, this is going to be horrible. This virus is going to get more and more lethal. And I said, no, it's not. I said, how could it? If it gets more lethal, it'll make people sick to go to bed and it and won't spread? I said it's not going to get more lethal It's going to get less lethal but more contagious and history has proved me right is exactly what it happened right now

COVID is a head cold for the most part, you know slight cough unless you're really immunocompromised It's not going to hurt you at all. In fact, I would dare say most people Don't even know they have it You know, i'm sure i've been exposed to it a million times. That's interesting you should say that doc because we're seeing now after people have gotten their two round immunization for COVID and then they've gotten their 10th booster, 12th booster

or whatever, those are the people that are getting COVID over and over again, or what they're calling COVID. But that kind of shows that they are immunocompromised. Yes. And that's what I'm seeing. I'm seeing people that have not got the COVID shot, not get sick. I didn't get it. I get sick occasionally, usually it's food poisoning. It's when I cook for myself, you know, my wife has to cook for me or I'll poison myself. Right. But anyway, yeah, I'm seeing the people that had got the shot are the ones that are getting sick over and over and over again, whether it be COVID or the flu or whatever.

They just seem to be more susceptible to different things. And I've also noticed people aging, They seem to age so fast now, and I don't know what that's about. Maybe we can talk about that a little bit. Gard Goldsmith, who you're familiar with, he, he, he has symptoms of long COVID. He asked if there's any, any new science or anything cutting edge that you're finding or any new advice or I'm actually, I'm actually his doctor, but yeah. But yeah, actually there is. I mentioned it in the article. Um, a group out of Italy, um, came up with augmented NAC and NAC is N-acetylcysteine that becomes glutathione and glutathione is the master anti antioxidant for the body. Um,

and they came up with this, what they call augmented NAC, that eliminates 99% of the spike protein from the blood. 99%. Where do we find this? You have to go right to there. It's in my article, the link to it, on Substack. If you look at my article,

how to treat long-haul COVID. But getting back to COVID, what I do in my practice is, there's how to treat long-haul COVID. But getting back to COVID, what I do in my practice is, there's no test for long-haul COVID. And so people, most people ignore it. Most doctors don't even recognize it as a problem. And what happens is in my practice, I check for two things.

I check D-dimer, oh, three things, D-dimer levels, and I check fibrin degradation products and I check COVID antibodies. And so what I have found is that 62% of the vaccinated patients have elevated D-dimer levels. And D-dimer means that there's clotting going on. In this case, it's at the capillary level. And because I spent months looking for blood clots in the lungs doing CTAs, it's at the capillary level. And it's because I spent months looking for blood clots

in their lungs, doing CTAs on them, and also checking their legs for DVTs, and they really didn't find any. But their D-derms kept going up. And so, you know, eventually those clots are gonna propagate backwards from the capillaries to larger and larger blood vessels until they compromise them. And where do we find this?

On autopsies. The undertakers can't believe it. They're seeing these rubbery clots extending all through people's bodies that they never saw before as evidence of that. But what I do in my practice is I check for D-dimer in a fiberin degradation product. So they're positive, well, one or the other, mostly.

D-fibrin is never positive without D-dimer. But I also check for antibodies, and I find that, you know, we've been told that their antibodies after a vaccine will spike in three months and then go down to a low level and give them long-term immunity, which it never did. It's not true. Their Antibias, the Quest Lab measures it as a level up to 2500.

Routinely, patients are greater than 2500 for years now. I've been checking them in their eye. So to treat this clotting, there's three ways you can treat it naturally. And I go into this, I do a substack on that as well, one way back. There's three enzymes that you can use. One's called ceratopeptidase. That's made from, interestingly enough, from silkworms. That's how they eat their way out of their cocoon.

It releases that enzyme. The second one is natokinase. Natokinase comes from natto. It's a Japanese dish, fermented dish of soybeans. It uses a special bacteria that produces this enzyme. And that's the one most commonly used by people. And then there are by doctors that do treat this stuff, very few, but functional doctors

like myself. And then there is lumbrokinase made from earthworms. That's the one I use. Lumbrokinase is 30 times stronger than natokinase and 300 times stronger than serratopeptidase. So what I do is give them lumbrokinase once a day on an empty stomach. You have to take on empty stomach enzymes, otherwise it will work with digesting the food and not do anything. I watch them.

I check their D-dimer levels and I keep raising it until I get the D-dimer going down. Now I just recently discovered this augmented NAC. The problem is that even the one source for it is in Italy Then there's a couple of distributors in America, but there's been such a spike of interest in it because it works so well That they can't make it fast enough. I ordered it three months ago and Just got it last week and they only sent me a limit. They sent me a quarter of what I ordered Just hold this will hold your we'll get you more, we promise. So, but they're gonna ramp up production for sure

because it's working so well. I took off in England first and now it's finally spread here. What did they do to enhance it? Is it more something along the lines of a methylation or something? Or what did they? No, no, there's a physicist there who has a way of aligning the cells.

Normally the NAC, they said, is random in its orientation. And they align them all somehow in one direction. It tells you about it on the website. And that makes it, that raises it from about 10 to 12% effective to 99. And so, and once again, all these things that I'm telling the audience about have nothing but beneficial side effects. You take NAC, you're boosting your immune system. You boost your immune system.

I mean, people get sick, and you'll see it in the same family. You get the flu, your wife doesn't, or vice versa. It all depends on your immunity. That's the wall that a bacteria virus has to climb and surpass to infect you. And so that's why when I wrote infected, I teach you how to treat every problem from head to toe with without pharmaceuticals. There's ways you could do it to boost your immune system. And as

a functional medicine doctor, I go into each organ system. It's okay. The kidney, here's what you do. You know, each one, it's easier. And that's the way we should be treating things. You know, the other thing that amazes me is that the United States never took off on bacteriophages. You know what bacteriophages are? Bacteriophages are viruses that eat bacteria. And they're specific for a special, each kind of bacteria. It doesn't do anything unless are viruses that eat bacteria. And they're specific for each kind of bacteria. It doesn't do anything unless it only kills that bacteria.

You can take them, if you don't have that bacteria, it doesn't do anything to you. If you have it, it'll wipe it out. And prior to antibiotics, that was the thrust of research. Everyone was looking at bacteriophages and seeing, and there's no resistance with them. It kills that specific bacteria. So it always amazed me that we've abandoned all that Everyone was looking at bacteriophages and seeing, you know, and there's no resistance with them.

It kills that specific bacteria. So it always amazed me that, you know, we abandoned all that after World War II. We went headlong into antibiotics and consequently that's where we are now. We've got this major problem with worldwide resistance and stuff, you know, just because antibiotics are widely overprescribed by doctors, including myself. I'm sure I use a lot more times. I'm not sure and I give an antibiotic hoping it's a bacterial infection and it might be a virus in which case it does nothing. And worldwide, a lot of countries, patients can just go into a pharmacy and say, give me to them. And so that produces resistance, big time.

In addition to which, the factory farms here in the United States, using tons of antibiotics to keep these animals who are in crowded, unnatural conditions together healthy, the effluent from that in the feces and the wash off from that is unbelievably bad. It has all kinds of resistant bacteria in there. Well, I think that's a good point. The effluent from that in the feces and the wash off from that is unbelievably bad. It has all kinds of resistant bacteria in there. Well, we also got to think about the gut as well, because you're talking about

where I was headed. Yeah, go ahead, Karen. I'm sorry. Well, I thought maybe we could take a break and then maybe talk about God probiotics, the rebuilding the gut. Sebo, I was listening to Dr. William Davis, who wrote G grain, a wheat belly, and he talks a lot about getting your own, performing your own, yogurt type, uh, uh, fermented food to

rebuild your gut bacteria and killed SIBO, which he feels that SIBO, which is small intestine, bacterial overgrowth. He feels like that has a lot to do with coronary artery disease as well as having an imbalance gut and bacterial overgrowth, which would kind of seem to play into the bacteriophage, the whole scenario. So shall we take a break? And then maybe Ashley, would you, you have a topic you'd like to do or we could talk about the gut?

I definitely have a topic that I would like to talk about for sure. Okay, all right. Okay. Let's take a break. All right, stay with us folks. We'll be right back. Music So The The liberty it's your move and now the David Knight Show. Welcome back to the David Knight Show. Today on Knights of the Storm, we're co-hosting for David and it's an honor to do so

and sending prayers to the Knight family, David and Ashley. Go ahead and explore a topic with Dr. LaGuardia. Shoot Ashley, give me a best shot. Perfect, thank you so much. Yeah, so something that I wanted to see to explore a topic with Dr. Laguardia. Shoot Ashley, give me a best shot. Perfect. Thank you so much. Um, yeah. So something that I wanted to see if we could expound on a little bit more is SSRIs. And maybe even if you feel like it, getting into a little bit of the, um,

psychological community in general, but I feel like, um, it, I was listening to something and heard this statistic. It was the Tucker Carlson episode that he did recently. And they were talking about, say, like 66 million Americans, and that number includes like 6 million children that are on some sort of, you know, psychological medication. And so I was just hoping that we could talk about, you know, a little bit of how, like, if someone were to come into your office, and say, you know, I'm exhibiting symptoms of whatever that may be, generalized anxiety, or major depressive disorder, you know, how, how would you approach that? And then how does that differ from what is normally done to get people like when they come into the office

normally in a traditional setting? Yeah, well, that's a good question. Well, yeah, SSRIs are heavily over prescribed in my opinion, like ADD meds and children heavily over prescribed as well, another tragedy. But this generation, this young generation, patients 20 to 40, amaze me in the amount of mental illness there is.

It saddens me. I mean, I'm always amazed new patients come in and they're very proud of it. They come in, there's no stigma attached to it. Badge of honor. It was a badge of honor. I'm bipolar, I'm bisexual, I have ADD it. Well, I had honor. It was a badge of honor. I've gone bipolar. I'm bisexual.

I'm ADD. I mean, and I'm like, okay. And you know, and you see people, you see these young girls, they're beautiful. They're, you know, and they've got good careers and stuff and they're depressed. I'm thinking you got money, you got a good career, you're healthy.

What the hell are you depressed about? You know, and there's just this epidemic of depression. And you know, and I prescribe a lot of SSRIs, you've got to use them short term, but what I try to do is a two-fold method. I try to, at one point, at one part, promote brain health. And what I find is that these patients lack several things. They lack magnesium, first of all.

They're universally low in magnesium. And the best way to check that is not through a regular serum magnesium level. It's worthless. You want to know what's going on inside the cell. That's where magnesium works. And serum doesn't mean anything. And so I check red blood cell magnesium levels. So if you go to your doctor, tell them you want RBC magnesium, and Quest does those,

and that range is 4 to 6.4 in those. And I find almost everyone's low. They have magnesiums there in the gutter. Once again, they've got low vitamin D levels. They've got low iodine levels. Iodine is universally ignored and is, every cell in your body low iodine levels. Iodine is universally ignored and is every cell in your body needs iodine. There's receptors for every cell in your body.

Body, and it's interesting, once again, get back to functional medicine. Look what do cells need? They need magnesium, they need iodine, they need B vitamins, they need vitamin C. There's certain things that they all need. And you have to first, I try to, is to replete those. We know magnesium, it's fascinating,

magnesium is essential for brain development. And we know that if you're low in magnesium during a pregnancy, you give birth to what's called a cretin. It's a severely retarded, deformed, short baby that lives only a few years and dies. And so doctors are well aware of that, you know, if you, you know, but do they supplement it? No.

It blew my mind. I've always thought, why would you not do that? You know, I give pregnant women kelp. Well, I give them kelp for several reasons. Kelp's organic, it's easy to process, body recognizes it, in addition to which, kelp has all the essential amino acids. Essential amino acids are building blocks to proteins.

Your body can make a lot of amino acids by putting together pieces of other proteins. The essential ones you have to get in your diet. That's why they're called essential. And American diets, as we all know, suck. I mean, it's processed foods, it's canned, everything. I tell patients all the time, don't eat anything in the middle of the supermarket. Only do the outer aisles.

And try to do organic if you can. But interestingly enough, there was a guy named Jorge Fleshas, American doctor, I believe he's from North Carolina or South Carolina, and he did an extensive study in his practice of iodine supplementation in pregnant women. And just like me, he's a functional medicine doctor,

and he thought, well, we need iodine for brain development. Why are we not supplementing it? So guess what happens when you give iodine to a pregnant woman? You raise the IQ 20 points on average. Holy smokes. 20 points, 20, that's nothing insignificant. If you have a kid who's high IQ of 110,

average 100 to 110, and you bump him to 130, you've got a genius. At the very least, you've got a very gifted child. Why the hell isn't the government saying you have to put this in pregnant women? Everyone takes prenatal vitamins. Why isn't it just added to the prenatal? It's not in them. American doctors are fearful of iodine.

They've got convinced in their mind if you give iodine you'll get thyroid storm, you'll get this hyperactive thyroid, you'll have all kinds of problems. The American intake of iodine is very low and we knew that for over a century and a half. How do we know that? Because of goiter. We would see, especially if you get away from the coasts, because iodine's on a lot of seafoods, a lot of air, sea air and stuff,

and so it deposits more in the soils next to the coast. As the soils get more and more depleted, you move inland, you get to what's called the goiter belt. The whole Midwest, 100 years ago, all had goiters on their neck, these big, thick necks and thyroid problems. And that was one of the greatest public health moves ever, was to iodize salt. And that prevented that completely.

Once you iodized salt, you had enough iodine in a diet. However, iodine, if you study functional medicine again, it's a halogen. And so it's on the same table as bromine and different things. And so what happens is halogens are very volatile. And so if your salt shaker is sitting there for a while, the iodine evaporates off it. In addition to which, everyone's on low salt diets, so they're not eating it. In addition to which, we're poisoned by bromides. Bromides are in everything.

They actually use it in bread now. And so bromides, because it's a halogen, very similar iodine's right next to it on a periodic table. Should have paid attention to high school adjacencies, was gonna come in handy. Oh, you're blessed. Anyway, back to this. And so bromine displaces iodine. And so, and there's no measure, there's no way to measure that. And so, you know, I had a chemistry teacher, and I was like, oh, I'm going to go to college. And I was like, oh, I'm going to go to college.

And I was like, oh, I'm going to go to college. And I was like, oh, I'm going to go to college. And I was like, oh, I'm going to go to college. And I was like, oh, I'm going to go to college. And I was like, oh, I'm going to go to college. And I was like, oh, I'm going to go to this. So, bromine displaces iodine. And there's no measure. There's no way to measure that. So, doctors are measuring thyroid hormones and they don't know that on that hormone, in the place of iodine, is bromine.

And so, they're non-functional, these. And so, you have to, the only way to get bromine, you have to try to limit bromine as you can for your diet, which is very difficult, but the best way is to flood yourself with iodine. And it has no downside to it, you know, because the thyroid hormones, T4, T3, that number is the number of iodines on. And so you need that for health. And so, and for brain health is very important. So once again, I give them methylated B complex, I give them iodine, I give them magnesium. Magnesium glycinate is one of the

best absorbed forms of it. And those things all help brain function and fish oil. And so, actually, I use krill oil more than fish oil. Krill oil is similar to fish oil, the omega-3s. However, it has astrazanthan in it. That's why it's red. Astrazanthan comes from the food chain, and you'll see it in shrimp, you'll see it in lobster, you'll see it in salmon. It's what gives them the red color. It's very good, very strong antioxidant.

And creel oil crosses the blood-brain barrier nicely and enters the brain. And so I give them two grams of fish oil a day, iodine in the form of kelp, methylated B complex, and magnesium to start with. And then we go from there. But also, a lot of it is lifestyle. I mean, these kids are phone zombies. I mean, you kids are phone zombies. I mean, you see them, my niece lives with us.

She's a great kid, but you know, we have a horse farm. She goes out at night to help my wife do night check. And she brings her phone with her. And she stares at it in a caboda going down between bars and walks around looking, and I see these kids all day walking around, they practically get run over. They walk out right into intersections. They're obsessed with these phones.

There's a price to pay for that. There's a lot of radiation coming off those phones. Not to mention 5G cooking planet from above. That's a whole nother problem, you know? But you know, I tell them unplug from this. You need to get out in nature. With no music, no headphones on, nothing. Listen to some birds sing, meditate, get some down time,

pray, do whatever you need to do. Dial it back. I wanna share this real quick while we're on this topic. I was actually gonna ask Ashley, like a dovetail, one of my questions in with her questions, because the SSRIs and why people need them, the mental health. I was looking at your sub stack here.

This is a recent one. Well, it's from February, so it's not that old. The healing power of meditation, silence, and prayer for our sensory overload. And I had just happened to notice, as I was reading through this today or yesterday, one of the things I noticed was some of the symptoms of sensory overload, which we all face.

Overexcitement, anxiety, depression, inability to focus. A lot of these things are what those SSRIs are prescribed for. And it could just be the environment we live in. And also, you know, Karen and I have extensively gone into EMF and how that affects the brain as far as I'm aware They've done studies on various frequencies, you know 4g 3g just different for ELF You know UHF what that does to the brain what does to the body? But I've never seen a study on, let's combine them all

because that's the environment we live in is completely just swimming in this stuff of varying frequencies. And I've not seen a single study on, hey, let's just mimic what we're living in today and see what that does to the rat. Nothing. Not to mention the toxic foods and the lack of nutrients. Lack of nutrients is half the rat. Not to mention the toxic foods and the lack of nutrients.

Lack of nutrients is half the problem. Your brain can't function without us. The omega-3, omega-6 thing is interesting because it's all about the balance. You need some omega-6, but they're pro-inflammatory. You need more omega-3s, but you have to keep a good balance. Once again, their diets are 20 to 1, omega 6 to omega 3. These kids have terrible diets. I sit there in my office telling me about the depression. They've got a Coke in one hand, you know, a bag of chips, and they've got their phone on the

other hand, you know, like, what are you doing? You've got school lunches or schools allowing Taco Bell and whatever, the fast food at whatever's popular now, that's what is considered to be a school lunch. Right, right. I'm hoping Kennedy changes all this stuff and he's doing a great job so far, but it's a massive bureaucracy that's fighting against him.

Yeah. I mean, do you believe in Congress? These tolls would interview, grilling him before he was nominated., what are you for? You for heavy metals and baby food? Why would you be against this stuff? You know, are you nuts? The guy's trying to clean things up and you're so far the money who's sponsoring these people look at their you know, they're they have huge Conflicts of interest right? It's unbelievable Well one quick thing before we move on to, you know, our next subjects,

I was just hoping if you could also kind of go over, if people are exposed to or have been prescribed SSRIs, some of the symptoms, some of the negative symptoms that they may have associated with taking SSRIs, and that's one of the things that I think people are not often educated on what could be the fallout for them from these types of medications. And then maybe just a quick blip about if someone was trying to get themselves off of an SSRI, what

would be an overall, maybe a plan that you would recommend to them? I want, I want to recommend that only because it's a liability nightmare. Uh, you know, you're on, they have to discuss that with their doctor. It's, uh, is I'll be shooting myself in the foot saying that, but that being said, well, without giving details, if somebody comes to you, do you have kind of a plan that you work with them or is it very Individualized or it's very individualized and it depends on certain things depends on one There their willingness to work with me a lot of people just want a quick fix They want a pill they don't care about anything. They don't they don't want to listen to me about nutrition

They don't want to listen to me about nutrition. They don't want to listen to me about the benefits of sunlight, the benefits of getting out in nature, the benefits of meditation and prayer. They don't want it. They want to give me a pill and let me get out of here. I'll see you in three months. So once again, it depends on the person. That being said, if they're willing to work with me,

once again, I go back to that same functional medicine thing. I look at what the brain needs and what it's probably not getting. And I can't measure a lot of this stuff, so I just give it to them. But over 40 years I've been doing this and you'll see it's not immediate. It'll take three to six months, sometimes a year, but they come around. They stick to the regimen, they'll need less and less of the SSRIs and I wean them off them. You know, but it takes a while and it's very individualized and, you know, there's lots

of problems because people commit suicide, all kinds of bad things happen to that group. You know, but I find in that group, there's a lot of atheists. There's a lot of people who just have no grounding in morality and are leading these really weird lifestyles and stuff. And I'm not judgmental. I mean, whatever you want to do, that's your business, you know, but I've seen that pattern over and over again. You know, a lot of them have, there's an epidemic of loneliness out there. Yes.

The American public is, it's heartbreaking. Their people are isolated. They're lonely. And that's what produces these assassins, not guns. It's isolated, you know, people who just get radicalized because they're alone in their basement listening to this nonsense all day long. You know, and they have mental illness.

And consequently, you almost always see these people who are killers and they look at them. Their diets are horrific. These guys are living on junk food and they're doing crazy shit. They're drinking three liters of soda a day and they're you know, they're out there, you know And so the the but I find there's so many patients in my practice is heartbreaking who are just lonely Someone come in they say to me doc. You're the only person I ever talked to Yeah, there's a lack of community and since a purpose and belonging as we move away from the more agrarian lifestyle into the cities and then The electronics help us to be or encourage us to be to forego the actual in-person interactions or even calling somebody and having a phone conversation instead of texting or emailing.

It would be interesting. What do you find is the role of niacin in brain health? Have you? Oh, niacin is key. Once again, B vitamins. There, it was interesting. of niacin in brain health. Oh, niacin is key. Once again, B vitamins. It was interesting.

The, try to think of his name, an orthomolecular medicine is one of the things I love and I'm blanking on the guy's name. Dr. Levy? No, no, Levy does the vitamin C stuff. But yeah, he does orthomolecular too, but I'm one of the pioneers of it. I just don't remember his name.

But in the 1950s, but I'm one of the pioneers of it I just don't remember his name but the in the 1950s there was there was Epidemics of schizophrenia right and it would come around the spring a lot of times and in the south It was really bad, especially among the poor population And what they found they would even a lot of cornmeal and they weren't getting any nice in their diets at all and they had Nice and problem that was this nice and deficiency and he they that's why they fortified a lot of and they weren't getting any niacin in their diets at all. And they had niacin problem. That was, there's niacin deficiency. And he, they, that's why they fortified a lot of flour with niacin and that got rid of a lot of it. Using niacin emptied out the mental hospitals at the time.

There were people who were just in there with schizophrenia, all kinds of problems. So once again, it gets back to the same, I hate to keep beating the dead horse, but the same functional medicine thing. You gotta look at what the brain needs to function. It needs to be vitamins. It needs the methylene to be vitamins. It needs the fish oil. It needs the magnesium. If you don't provide those things, any one of them lacking triggers some type of mental illness, whether it's anxiety, depression, paranoia, schizophrenia, psychosis, you know, you see all kinds of

crazy things. But as you know, our lifestyles unfortunately are evolving in the wrong direction for that. You know, people are working from home now, they're not even going to the office anymore. They're ordering out, they have people, Tuvalu, you know, whatever it is, Gordache, bring their food in, they're not even going to restaurants. The bars are empty. People are by themselves on their computers alone and have no interaction. You see young men, they have no, guys our age, Jaycee, walk down the street, you see another guy,

hey, hey, don't, you know, just as you walk by, you know, you kind of acknowledge each other. You don't really care how they're doing. It's not really, you're not gonna stop and talk to them. Young guys are stumped by that. They're like, oh. They, all the social cues, they don by that. They're like, oh. They all have social cues they don't know.

And it's heartbreaking for me because I'm an Italian coming from a very large family. I mean, my cousins are like my brothers. We're very close. I'm used to big gregarious family holidays with 25 people there. And I have lots of friends and my friends are giving me more joy in my life

than almost anything I could think of. These 50 year, 40 year friendships I've had guys from medical school, we get together a few times a year and we're like brothers. And it's, it's, it's mana for my soul hanging out with those guys and just belly laughs and telling the same story every year, you know, we laugh our asses off.

Our wives go to bed early, they can't take it. But we have a great time. And friendship and love and, I have these young males, they're virgins. They're on porn harbor every night and they're in their basement. They have no girlfriends. They don't even want a girlfriend.

They don't even get driver's license. They don't even work. Like, what are you doing? You're not living your life. Here's a true story from the other day. I was at Walmart getting new tires put on my truck and my wife called me up and said, hey, while you're there, pick up a few items.

And she likes Milo's Sweet Tea, that's the brand name. And I go get the Milo's Sweet tea and a couple of the things she needed. And I, I go, I'm passing another guy that happened to have Milo's sweet tea, I can tell he's military cause you know, just, just his build. He was military and I'm prior military. So I was just like, Hey, best tea out there. Huh? And he looked at me.

It was like, what? He had his earbuds in shock that I, you know, and he's like, took his the Cornfield country, uh, it was customary that when you pass another car or truck, usually a truck on the back roads, you'd do the little, the little hand wave. Right. Right. I never, my dad's doing that constantly. It was not that long ago that I was, I forget who was with me, but I was back home and I was doing that and the person with me was like, do you know that person? I'm like, no, like this,, if you don't do it, it's rude.

But in today's society, if they don't have earbuds in or on their phone looking at it, there is no real way to interact with people because they're kind of in their own little enclosed world, even in public. And that goes back to the psychological thing that you did your substack on, on the over, uh, over stimulation. Yeah.

Yeah. I feel like that's a lot of what the COVID restrictions are for. I found that, uh, with the masks on and the social distancing, people started looking down. Yeah. And we stopped getting, and I found it very hard to be out around people that were in that mindset. It really broke my heart that we,

that people were being so inhumane or in, you know, not making those the eye contact and the smiles with a mascot. Of course, you can't, you're not going to smile. And we had toddlers that had a drop 20 point drop in IQ during that period. And that's because they weren't getting the social interaction learning to read faithful cues, but still we have people in a parking lot or in the grocery store that tend to

want to look down that, or they might glance at you to see, you know, are we going to smile? Are we going to say hello? Or are we going to act like we used to act, you know? And there are a lot of people that really enjoy having a smile or eye contact or waiting for you to say hello. So I really try to make that effort. And even driving, it used to be that we would pull up to a stoplight or a four-way stop.

And the drivers would look at each other to confirm, OK, it's your turn, my turn. And now it's very rare to have another driver actually make eye contact with you. But to me, that's that's the way that you're going to do it and be safe. So I feel like that really we really suffered from Covid. And we're still seeing that lack of eye contact looking down that we all became a danger to each other. Yeah. You know, it's especially in children, you're absolutely right.

In children, they can't see their school teachers, they can't see their face, they're just looking at their eyes, they don't know what to do. They missed a lot of those social cues and it retarded their development big time. Right. I mean, that was a tragedy what they did closing schools.

Kids were at no risk. It was the stupidest thing in the world. And they just foisted it upon everyone with the pandemic. It was a stupidest thing in the world, you know, and you know, they just foisted upon everyone, you know with the pandemic was bad So I'm there's talk of we on our last cuts and I to the storm show I showed a another proposed possible Pandemic or another action plan how to handle the next? pandemic or another action plan, how to handle the next biological attack. So it looks as though there may be more of these type of episodes in the works. I'm wondering what you would recommend if

to your patients or in general, how do we keep our loved ones out of the hospital or how if we did have another COVID situation, how do we maintain our health? What's your best line of defense? To stay healthy, to not become sick. Then when we do become sick, how do we regain our health or treat it at home to the best of our ability? What are the basic guidelines for something like that?

Well, that was why I wrote infected. infected, infected secrets from the medical underground. That was all about that and especially with COVID and stuff. I go into that quite heavily on what to do to boost your immune system. So once again, all disease comes from the organism overcoming your immune system. So the first thing to do is boost that. And here's combinations. I go into it in the book quite heavily, but there's combinations of vitamins you could take. A guy named Les Packard did a lot of this stuff at UCLA.

He studied how antioxidants work together and was fascinating stuff because there is They regenerate each other Glutathione and vitamin C regenerate each other vitamin E and coq 10 regenerate each other Collagen works in that cycle doesn't it too? No, no not college a collagen works only with the vitamin C, you know The activism right but it doesn't regenerate. It helps generate, produce collagen, but not, it doesn't regenerate the vitamin C.

It only goes in one direction. These things regenerate each other. And so, KelQ10 helps vitamin E and so forth, and vitamin C and glutathione regenerate each other. Now, on, of course, glutathione and vitamin C are water soluble. So that's the water soluble arm. The fat soluble arm of that is CoQ10 and vitamin E.

What's over both of those, which is an interesting substance, which is both fat and water soluble, is alpha lipoic acid, ALA. Alpha lipoic acid is great for you, because it helps to regenerate both those arms. So when you take alpha lipoic acid, ALA. Alpha lipoic acid is great for you because it helps to regenerate both those arms. So when you take alpha lipoic acid and you're raising your vitamin C, your glutathione, your CoQ10 and your vitamin E

and all of those supercharge your immune system. Up until recently, you couldn't take glutathione. It would break down. And so you had to use the other four, but not that one. But I get into that in the book a lot, get into, you know, sunshine, holy, you know, just totally misrepresented. Sunshine is, sunlight is so good for you, it's ridiculous.

It's, and you know, once again, I always question the sunshine is bad causing skin cancer theory. And it never made sense to me because evolutionarily wise, or developmentally wise over the centuries, we would have died out as a species of sunlight killed us. I mean, think about it. You're outside all the time.

This is just the last generation we're inside the most recent one. Before this, you go back 100 years ago, or the last two this, you go back 100 years ago, or the last two generations, you go back 100 years ago, everyone was outside all the time. They were inside only at night. And you would see that interestingly with the melanoma levels.

The melanoma levels are skyrocketing now, but never before, because, and we have less sunlight now than ever. We're inside more than ever. But they're skyrocketing, and what are they hiring? They're hiring, you know, and I always say this to dermatologists, riddle me this, if sunlight is so dangerous,

why do construction workers have lower levels than office workers? And they always look at me with blanks once again. You know? Maybe. A lot of melanoma's on skin that isn't even really exposed. The same exposed, right? Right.

Right. It makes no sense. It's from burns. It's from getting recurrent burns. The office work goes out and gets burnt. That's why they get melanoma. It's from burns, not from sun exposure. And we could know that because 100 years ago in New England, there was no melanoma, hardly

ever. That's a recent cancer melanoma that's come up just in the last couple of, in the last hundred years. Prior to that, New England was populated by Irish, English, Polish, Russian, German, Northern Europeans for the first 200 years. For the most of Italians and Southern Europeans came in the late 1890s, early 1900s. But before that, it was a Northern European.

The whites in America were mostly Northern European. And in New England, they were dark. You look at these pictures of them, they look like Sicilians. They're all deeply tanned because these guys were out all year round. They're out as the days got longer, no matter how fair they were, they got tanned because their skin acclimated to it. They weren't getting burned. So consequently, they weren't getting melanoma.

And you would think it would be epidemic among these guys. They would be dying off if that was the case. Well, it's not the case. You know, it never has been. You know, there's, you know, it's, yeah, you have to protect yourself from burns, but I'm actually gonna write a sub stack soon on suntan lotion, which is not great for you either.

There's tons of toxins and aluminum, different things in suntan lotion, but that's a whole nother subject. But there is, do you guys know much about DMSO? Oh, not I. I know that it is good for pain and any kind of skin lesions and. Yeah, DMSO is dimethylsulfoxide.

It's fascinating stuff. There is, it came about, they discovered it, and probably, well it was discovered long ago, but finally came to the forefront of people's thoughts in the 60s and 70s because wood pulp manufacturing, it's a byproduct of that. And in the Pacific Northwest, these guys are working with wood pulp and these big wood mills, they would get it on their hands and their arthritis would go away. They'd be like what the hell is this I keep spilling stuff in my hands man my hands feel great. And a doctor up there isolated and says DMSO this stuff's great. It too like alpha lipoic acid is fat and water soluble. So it's an amazing solvent everything

dissolves in it and it carries stuff right across the skin you know so it's you have to be careful you have to make sure your skin's clean when you apply it. But DMSO is amazing. I'm using more and more of it. It takes away joint pain. It takes away, like you said, it works good for inflammation. It works good for pain. It works good for infections. It works good for all skin conditions. I had some solar keratosis here from the sun. So I'm always outside these really dark little tar things that look like I've been using DMSO for three months. They're almost gone.

Most of them fell off. You know, I've been using a lot of patients for all kinds of eczema and skin lesions. It works fabulous. I only use the full strength. I use the 70% with 30% aloe. But you can buy the full strength, I use the 70% with 30% aloe. But you can buy the full strength, it's very cheap, you can buy it at a tractor supply has it.

And it'll say for animal use only because the pharmaceutical company crushed it 20 years ago. It depends on the state you're in. Some states allow it, some don't, but you can buy it online. It's available everywhere online. But what I do for people with joint pain is I combine it with boron. Boron?

Oh, boron. Boron is key. Boron is such a fascinating mineral. Boron, what it does is it's strong anti-inflammatory and it's potentiated by DMSO. So I'll take, and you can take, interestingly enough, remember 20-mulletine borax, the laundry detergent? I have some of that at the house here.

I bought some just to use it as you were talking about using it. And it's not used in the United Kingdom. It's also used in some parts. Yeah, you can't get it in Australia either, you know? But there's certain places you can't get it. Yeah, but what happens is Borax, it's mined in two places. It's mined in Death Valley and it's mined in Turkey.

Those are the only two big Borax deposits, but they're huge. And Borax is 98% to 99% pure borax. It has a little bit of sodium, a little bit of oxygen in it as well. But I've been using that for years for osteopenia and osteoporosis. It builds really strong bone.

I give it a boron complex and take orally, and it works great for that. But if you sprinkle it in DMSO and you apply it to painful joints, it's amazing. DMSO is so strong it crushes your skin. If you use it, the straight stuff tastes like garlic. If you apply it to your skin, the pure stuff, you'll taste it in your mouth within a minute. Even when you apply it to your skin as a cream with the aloe, you can watch in the mirror,

apply it, it's white and you put it on, in 60 seconds it's gone. It soaks right in, you know, it's amazing. And it works great for joint pain. But boron is interesting, but like I said, I use it for the osteopenia and osteoporosis because areas with a lot of boron in the soil have these, the orthopedic surges have a hard time sawing through the bones. That's a rock hard they get. But also I use boron for, to raise sex hormones, to raise estrogen and testosterone levels.

And the trick, the hack for that is that all sex hormones travel in the blood in two forms. They travel bound and free. They're bound to another protein. That's kind of like a circulating reserve of it. It's not active. And the free is the active part. And the protein that they all bind to is called sex hormone binding globulin.

Makes sense. And all the sex hormones bind to that. And so if I have males with low testosterone, I give them zinc because it helps produce testosterone, but I also give them boron. Because boron lowers the amount of bound testosterone, therefore raising the amount of free testosterone, which is the active one.

And so you can get a lot of mileage out of that. And there's also DHEA and other things you can add on board. I do a lot of testosterone injections of depot testosterone every two weeks. I give them that, it's very cheap and it works great. But it's a good little hack to use Boron because it comes in handy for a lot of stuff,

like I said, for bone health and for sexual health as well. And really no one knows that for the most part. You never hear that anywhere. Interesting. I know that the cancer patients I was talking about that used venbendazole, some of them, the people with brain cancer use a DMSO to help move it through the blood-brain barrier, but they all complained about smelling like garlic.

Yeah, well so you go to 70% that doesn't smell, or you can dilute it with distilled water, and you can dilute it with distilled water and you can dilute it down to whatever strength you want. People who are like, you know, someone like Jason might get a rash from it. You might as well, Karen. I don't think you actually could go a little darker, but you know, you guys are pretty fair sometimes in red hair and fair skin people, you get a rash from it at the full strength. Right.

At 70% you don't get it and it doesn't make it worse over time. But I have a patient, actually a friend, I run a nursing home and one of the secretaries here, her daughter has cancer and bad, you know, kind of end stage breast cancer that metastasizes and stuff. But I've been keeping her alive with a whole bunch of different things, but she was getting severe headaches and nothing worked for her. I used straight DMSO on her scalp and gone. Wow. That's fantastic. Yeah. I'm going to try this for my arthritis. I've got it in both, well, it's both knees.

One elbow, pretty bad. One shoulder, pretty bad. And my hands are starting to get there. So, and I know Travis Knight, who is the son of David Knight, this is the show we're doing, he has the arthritis as well. So hopefully he'll watch this episode and maybe give that a try. How old is he? Oh, I have no idea. He's probably close to mid 20s, maybe almost 30. Young guy with arthritis.

I think he has rheumatoid arthritis. Yeah. Well, you know that, you know, we alluded to this earlier and I didn't really quite get to it about gut health. Somehow we got off the subject. I think you, you mentioned it actually, but what I do for gut, what only reminded me of that with rheumatoid arthritis, I find that patients who come in, especially adult patients who come in with nuance of allergies, autoimmune diseases that they never had before, it's all gut, it's all leaky gut.

What happens is the enterocytes, the cells that line the intestines, the large and small intestine are one cell thick. And they have these things called tight junctions where they fit together. On top of that, it looks like a shag rug. Those older folks who know what a shag rug is. You know what?

But uh. My Scooby Doo van. My Scooby Doo van. That's right, that's right. And what does that? That increases the microvilli and it increases the surface area for absorption. On top of that is a layer of probiotic bacteria.

So what happens in a healthy gut is the probiotic bacteria pre-digests the food and it digests it and breaks it down. And so it breaks the fat into fatty acids that you absorb. It breaks down the protein into amino acids that you can absorb. What happens is with leaky gut is due to damage to the gut lining. And I'd say probably the most common thing is gluten damage to it. What happens is gluten is artificially engineered.

Gluten is unfortunately 20 to 40 times more gluten than we ever had in our diets before because it makes dough more pliable. And so you can make things like flaky crust things where they're really high in gluten. I find that many people, even if they don't have celiac disease, they have gluten sensitivity and they're sensitive to it.

Wheat belly, you allude to really a Karen. Right. Perfect. And so what happens is that gluten's damaging that lining, that one cell lining. And so those tight junctions spread because the inflammation on that one cell and large pieces of protein go in right into the bloodstream or digest it. And what happens is if those proteins are similar to proteins, the collagen and joints, you'll get rheumatoid arthritis and arthritis problems. If it's attacking the thyroid, you'll get Hashimoto's, you know, it was always different skin, you'll get lupus,

all these different illnesses I see. And most patients present initially as having allergies that they never had before because their body is being ravaged by by these large proteins that are going through their body. So I've cured tons of people by giving them a regimen of four or five things that I use for gut health. Now that being said, it takes a while. It's not immediate.

It takes about six months before you even notice anything. But the first thing I give them is a strong probiotic. I use VSL number three. It's the strongest one on the market. And I give them that. That way, you provide the probiotic level. The second thing is, interestingly, the cells that line, the whole body, the cells work on glucose, as I mentioned earlier, in the brain. Except the brain has a backup system and the intestines use a different system. The lining of the small intestine requires L-glutamine.

The lining of the large intestine requires medium chain and short chain triglycerides. And so what happens is glutamine is in the diet, a lot of it, and so it goes and nurtures the cells there. So a lot, it should be a lot of it in the diet, there's a lot, not a lot in some people. And so I give them L-glutamine powder. And for the small intestine, large intestine, I give them either coconut oil

or medium chain triglyceride capsules. Because in the large intestine, the digestion occurs by fermentation. And so resistant starches that you eat, most starches break down to small intestine. The resistant ones go on to the large intestine where they're fermented. So your body doesn't waste anything. It's so beautiful. It has a backup system to get the rest of the proteins out of there because your body

wants to save all those proteins and different things and fats. And so in the large intestine, those cells, that fermentation produces short-chain fatty acids and butyrate, for example, and that goes and that feeds those cells. And that's really essential for your health. I wrote a substack on that too about a month ago. And so I give them medium-chain triglycer. So I give them medium chain triglycerides, I give them L-glutamine, I give them the probiotic,

and I also give them colostrum. Colostrum is super food. Colostrum is the first milk of a mammal. It produces that, and what it does, for example, in a cow, a cow will produce colostrum because most of the calves die of GI problems, that's what kills most calves. And so the colostrum, besides being super rich in nutrients, minerals, trace elements, fatty acids,

everything it needs, it's full of antibodies that protect the gut. And colostrum's great for you, it's a super food, it has no downside to it at all. And so I give those things, and collagen also, and vitamin C. The collagen you always need to produce, you know, to produce a strong cell wall.

And that combination works fabulous. And what do you get? After about six months, their allergies disappear, their arthritis goes away So does their Hashimoto's and you'll see you can actually see their antibody levels come down And so it does work but in addition what you have to try to avoid processed foods Seed oils are very damaging to the gut lining things like that and all the chemicals in those foods

I mean and besides the gluten of things, you know, all of those. So you can really kind of try to limit the like Jason alluded to earlier. We're in this cesspool of toxins and radiation of different types that our bodies are being bombarded with. And so it's not it's not a silver bullet. One thing causes one thing, one thing fixes one thing. You need a holistic approach to it. And that's why I like the functional medicine approach, because it gets back to basics.

If you get back, and I say it over and over again, you get back, you provide the body what it needs, it's an unbelievable machine. I mean, it's just self-repairing, it does everything. You couldn't dream up a machine like this. It's the hand of God. There's no way around it. Nothing would make something so intricate. But you have to keep it in balance. If you re-provide that balance, you provide the nutrients you need, you cure a lot of

disease. It's totally ignored. I had a preacher once. He was in a medicine and he said looking at the body How amazing it is it was designed to go forever to not die It's the toxins and the the things around us that slowly poison us over time They shorten our lives and if you look I mean if you're into the Bible and you look, you can see, you know, thousands of years ago, people live four or five 600 years. You know, I subscribe to the Bible

that is true, right? There's a true historical record. Me too. Yeah. So I mean, that's just, and we see, you know, as medicine got better, our life expectancy went up and up and up. And that's mostly because of sanitation, in my opinion, you know, clean water. Definitely, definitely. Yeah. All right. But now it's starting to go down again. And I think it's because of all this stuff that we have. Anyway, that's all I had.

And I remember more than I look into these different areas and different doctors' opinions, different experts, the more you see the commonalities in the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same different doctors opinions, different experts, the more you see the commonalities and the same nutrients being recommended over and over and over again. Vitamin C, magnesium, zinc, iodine is the basic. Right. Well, you talked earlier about levy. Right.

What a genius. I mean, the guy, you know, and he's been crucified by the medical establishment, like they always do, when, you know, if you don't tow the party line, they wanna crush you, they whack them all with you. They don't want any of these, it always amazed me, because if I have a patient who comes to me, for example, if I was an oncologist,

and I heard from a patient that they were taking an ivermectin and femmedazole or memmedazole and were curing their cancer, I would be all over them. I would wanna know every single thing about that, but yet they do the exact opposite. And it breaks my heart, because he's a well-intentioned guy. These guys are geniuses, they're well-intentioned, they're hardworking, but they've got the blinders on them.

And they're not open to this stuff. And it's to their detriment. It's to the patient's detriment. We can imagine if every doctor was into this stuff and we're treating you preventatively and giving you nutritional stuff. In addition, I prescribe meds all day. You got to use both.

But long term, this is the stuff that works without side effects. Let me ask you, I was listening to a lecture and I think it was Dr. Levy that said that there was a group of doctors raised the $3 million to do a clinical trial using vitamin C and lysine and a couple other nutrients to show that it helped with different diseases. And something happened and a couple of the doctors pulled out and he figured, he thought

that probably they were threatened in some way. If you could see some clinical trials on things or run some trials yourself, and we know that's expensive and science is bought out, it's basically basically bought and sold pay for that paid for at this point. You've got the editors of the major medical magazine saying themselves that we're not objective that So, what would you want to see what kind of trials would you want to see? What would you want to see investigated? Well, you know, that's a great hope with Bobby Kennedy Great hope is that he's gonna unleash this stuff and I really believe he will he's well-intentioned I mean some of the stuff he likes is crazy outside the medical stuff

I like this medical approach to stuff and his approach to the soils and keeping things safe I've always said health begins in the soil. We got to start with the farming. We got to change it around. We got to get rid of this industrial farming. We have to get back to organic farming and healthy soils. You can't produce a healthy plant with six soils. We're only repleting MPK. We give nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium back to soil, and these soils have progressively depleted.

No one is studying the essential trace elements and the minerals and trace elements. No one's studying it, and that's where a lot of the problems lie. We don't know what a lot of the trace elements do, but they're in our blood, and they're there for a reason, not there randomly. Stephanie Steneff is huge. She studied glyphosate quite a lot and she feels like the glyphosate and in the soil it destroys the chikamate pathway which is what rebuilds the trace minerals and nutrients in the soil so she feels that the glyphosate and the pesticides herbicides are huge problem and that feeds also with our gut problems too. Yeah, well, we also, you know, with this climate engineering, geo engineering that they're doing and the stuff they're spraying, which is not a it's not a conspiracy theory anymore.

There's an executive order or something out there that they they say it's not happening, but they do acknowledge that they're testing for seven years. So we know it's happening. We can see it happening. Those things fall to the ground eventually. And who knows how those chemicals, metals, you know, trace elements that they're dropping are reacting with the elements in the soil. You know, like, if I throw, if I throw a piece of iron out, it's going to react with the oxygen and consume the oxygen. So who knows what this is doing to our soils as far as some of those elements we need the plants need to uptake So it's nobody knows I mean you are recommending some kind of water or plasma from weren't you from some

Yeah, I use I've always liked Quintones marine plasma right Quintones marine plasma is fascinating stuff and It was it was invented by a doctor a a french scientist who was a physician And he was a marine biologist oddly enough and there were there is these areas these pools in the ocean these vortexes That produce upwellings from the ocean bottom and And they're scattered around, but in them, every animal from microplankton up to whales go in there to feed because these upwellings are full of nutrients from the ocean bottom.

They're full of essential amino acids, minerals, trace elements, and everything. So as Dr. Quinton in the 1800s started coal processing this stuff, he was that far ahead of his time that he didn't want to damage it with heat and he coal processed it and bottled it right on ships and brought it in and he said he was altruistic kind of guy. He set up clinics, free clinics all over Europe and he was curing people by giving them large, not even large, small amounts of these quintones marine plasma every day. And then he went before the French Academy of Sciences and

he said that the body could live on this. And they said, oh, it could and it couldn't. And he took a dog and he drained his blood and he replaced it with quintones marine plasma and it lived. drained his blood and he replaced it with Quintons Marine Plasma and it lived. So interestingly enough, there were some doctors on Okinawa and Guadalcanal during World War II, some Navy doctors who knew about the benefits of seawater. And they were desperate. They ran out of blood to transfuse and they started sterilizing seawater and using it and mixing it and using that. And that saved a ton of Marines who would have died. Otherwise, guys who would just thought,

what the hell do I have to lose? These guys are gonna die unless I get something into them. You know what I mean? And so this stuff, they bottle it to this day. It's great stuff. I drink it every day. It's good if you provide the essential amino acid. But getting back to the soil problem, the problem with glyphosate and all the toxins

and pesticides and fungicides and herbicides that we put in the soil, it's killing the microbial life. And that microbial life is the most important thing on the planet. We're killing these soils that take millions of years to develop. You know, we're making them into dead clay that can't support anything. Because the two things that soils produce besides vitamins and minerals and stuff that they make accessible to the plant

is fulvic and numic acids. And those fulvic and numic acids are great for you. What they does is fulvic acid winds up causing, it opens up the cell and allows nutrients to enter into the cell. So it's key for our health. Our diets used to be heavily laden with these things because they were in the soil,

consequently they were in the plants. Now the plants are dead and you can see that in the nutritional surveys of the plants. You have to eat 20 apples now in 2025 to get the same nutrients you would get for one apple in 1990. I mean, it's crazy. And this is across the board in all fruits

and we have these good looking vegetables and fruit, but they're hollow. They don't have, and consequently you eat a meal and you're hungry afterwards because your body knows it's not getting what it needs. That leads to obesity and a lot of other problems because in addition to which, as we talked about during the show,

all of the spectrum of mental and physical illnesses starts in the soil. You gotta fix that first and then make sure people eat nutrient-rich, nutrient-dense foods. We alluded to it earlier, liver is one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet. It's fabulous for you.

You know, it's full of vitamins, it's full of minerals. It's great for you. You know, and people got away from eating that. I used to have to eat liver once a week when I was a kid, my mother made me. I hated it, but I hated it. Yeah, liver and onions, that was it. Yeah, yeah.

Once every couple weeks thing. Right, but I mean, those things were great for you. And we got away from all that. Mothers now are just driving through, give them a happy meal. Let's go. We got to go. We got to get baseball practice. I know lifestyle is a crowd. We're hurried and stuff, but you can't short your kids like that. Right. Well, shall we take one more break and then come back and do one more segment?

Maybe talk about infrared, far infrared and near infrared. I know you've been talking about that. Well, shall we take one more break and then come back and do one more segment maybe talk about Yeah Bread our infrared and near infrared. I know Ashley is interested in that topic Yeah, I actually had that one jotted down too. But before we go to break I did see you had a recent article on lion's mane and you you just mentioned anti fungals Fungus is extremely important. It's kind of like the was it the the recycler or the you know, of the earth. I mean, if you see a down tree, and I know angry tiger,

which will be on with us when we do this live, we're gonna play this as a live replay. He's really big into mushroom hunting. He's into mushroom hunting when I grew up in southern Illinois. mushrooms are so good for you. We've talked about it before. So tell us a little bit about, um, you know, th th th the anti-fungals are, are kind of killing it off. What is that doing to the soil?

And then that's question of hand. Yeah. Yeah. What'd you say? I didn't hear what you said. I said, I take mushroom, mushroom blend every day. Yeah. Yeah.

A lot of, you know, a lot of people wisely using mushroom coffee now in the morning I make coffee have a blend of mushrooms much healthier for you. Although coffee is not bad for you. I'm pro caffeine But it's a yeah lions mains are strong new atropic and I wrote an article on new atropics as well But specifically on lion main lions main, but all of those are really good. They boost our immune system Maine, Lion's Mane, but all of those are really good. They boost your immune system. They contain nutrients that you can't get in your diet. And like, as you alluded to, the soils, without fungi, the plants would never rot.

We would be overcome with debris from plants. They would just pile up and not break down. They're essential for breaking things down. That's the first step. And then, you know, in the soil, we'll see there are microfilaments as they go through it, they break it down, they eat it, and they digest it. And that becomes fulvic and numic acids along with the minerals and trace elements in there

that feed the plants. It's a symbiotic relationship between the plants and the soil. We've broken that relationship to our detriment. And that was a supreme era, and that came about after World War II, primarily because the munitions industry needed something else to make, and they weren't making bombs anymore, so they started making chemical fertilizers with the nitrates that they had, they were using for a compounder before that. And so consequently, we got away from from that and then we got to mass farming

and this industrial farming, the ground up, the glyphosate that's in everything. Glyphosate is particularly insidious because it's water soluble. So it evaporates and it comes down to rain. And so the whole planet's being doused with this stuff. You know, we talked about earlier about the SSRIs and stuff, but that's in the water supply now. Once you have a well and you're isolated, there's so many people urinating out metabolites from SSRIs and Prozac and different things. They're in the water table now. They've tested water in suburban areas. You're getting like 70 pharmaceuticals are mixed in there with the water. That water is toxic. Once again, we gotta get back to getting away

from these things, not to mention putting fluoride in there. Another disaster. But fluoride, I've wrote a few on dental health. There's really good stuff you can use for your kids that not fluoride. Fluoride's horrible, lowers their IQ. But if you put, I use xylitol toothpaste with hydroxyapatite in it. Hydroxyapatite is the protein that builds teeth.

Xylitol is a sugar, but it's not fermented in the mouth. The pathogenic bacteria in the mouth that leads to cavities, xylitol kills them and they can't process the sugar. So I use toothpaste with hydroxyapatite because now you're killing off the bad bacteria there and you're not providing anything to ferment to make the acids that dissolve your teeth. And if you leave it on for a while, it'll actually soak into the tooth, some hydroxyapatite. So if you do that and vitamin K2, along with calcium and different things,

you can rebuild teeth, and or at least help your teeth and protect them. But you don't want your kids exposed to the fluoride. It's a disaster for them. The only caveat with xylitol, it's deadly for dogs and cats. You gotta make sure they don't get a hold of it And there's a brand of gum

I like that my doc my dentist even recommended that has xylitol But I it's so hard to you know, I just really have the dilemma of whether I want to even have it in the house with the dog Yeah, I've got three dogs, but you know, just keep it My bathroom cabinet and there's a tall in quite a few brands of peanut butter now. And people give their dogs peanut butter for a treat. But some peanut butter has xylitol. So I was I was shocked because when I first wanted to, I bought xylitol toothpaste.

It came with fluoride. I was like, what the hell is this? They're advertising a lot. I'm like, no, no. But, uh, yeah, I mean, I mean, why aren't pediatric dentists pushing this? Instead they push the fluoride thing. Pushes, you know, the fluoride. Right. Thank God Kennedy's on that too. I mean, it's, it's all back to what we talked about before. Karen medical industrial complex, uh, in the grand scheme of things, I

know we have people like Dr. LaGuardia here that wants to help people, but the industry, and I'm not talking about the doctors, I'm talking about the level higher, they're into continual treatment and repeat business. That's the problem. And so if people follow the protocol, you're going to, yeah, I don't want to say they're intentionally harming people, but they're not trying to cure people. They're creating customers. And we've created, we've created an industry of insurance, which can be hyperinflated to, you know, get more money for this. So it's really an insurance scam. I'm not bagging on doctors at all. Doctors are doing what they were taught to do.

But the whole system is meant to bleed as much money as possible and have repeat business, repeat business, repeat business. So hats off to Dr. LaGuardia. You're trying to cure people and there's not enough of that going on out there. Yeah, true. It's not enough. But even the military, you know this, Jason, they can't get recruits. 80% of them are rejected for either psych problems or physical problems.

80%. Or overweight. I mean, the weight. Obese, right. Right. What are we going to do? I mean, as a country, look at what's happening. This is the sickest generation coming up ever.

Their life expectancy is, I'm a baby boomer. I'm 71 soon. I mean, I can a baby boomer. I'll be 71 soon. I mean, I can do 100 pushups in 105 seconds every morning. So I'm in good shape for an old bastard. But there's, these kids are not in good shape. They're in terrible shape, they're sick, they're tired, they're mentally ill. I mean, think about it.

What's the next generation gonna be like? We know, and look at the next step. These are the kids that are giving birth. These mothers are, they've had the COVID vaccine, they've got all kinds of problems, they're missing nutritionally, they're a wasteland, they're in a toxic soup. And what do you see? You see childhood cancer skyrocketing, you see all this mental illness, all these birth defects.

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need inflation, only support. Using free speech to free minds. It's the David Knight Show. That was nice. Ashley, would you like to go ahead and frame a question for us about frequency and healing, the healing powers of light? Absolutely. Thank you, Karen. Well, basically, and maybe not so much as a question, but just what can you tell people about red light therapy, the benefits from that. And, you know, I'm looking at your sub stack article, you've got a lot of good information on how they can get exposure to red light therapy for free. But there's definitely a lot of different pieces of equipment out there that they can use to help. And I have to say that personally, I use my red light therapy every single day. I use it on my face, I use it on my thyroid specifically. And you know, like if my neck is feeling tight,

I use my red light therapy on that. So this is just a personal. What kind of device do you have? So I have three different devices. I have one that is a cube about this, this size and it has, I don't remember the exact rays, but it's just red light, um, on the spectrum of like 600 something to 800 something. And then I have a handheld that has, it's not as powerful, but that it looks like a big light bulb. And that's what I use on my thyroid.

And that has, um, the 600 to 800. So it has like four different healing light waves. And then I have a face mask that uses, like I have red light therapy, yellow light and green light. And I think that's staying also within the 600 range. Do you have Hashimoto's? What's your thyroid problem?

I do, yes. Yeah. So, I mean, just to get away from the light thing for a second, so you have to do the, what we talked about earlier, healing the leaky gut. Yep. In addition to which you have to give yourself iodine and selenium to support your thyroid

because the selenium is important because there's enzymes, D-iodinase enzymes are called, which means they remove an iodine that are responsible for changing T4, which is inactive, has four iodines on it, to active T3, which is active. And so when I measure, when I get thyroid, in fact, I screen every patient with this on their first committee, wouldn't believe how many patients I pick up thyroid problems are. I check a T4 free in total, T3 free in total,

TSH, anti-thyroid antibodies, and I test, and reverse T3. I check for those because T3 is the active one. 10% of the population can't convert T4 to T3, so you need to provide that for them. But in addition to which, once again, people are depleted in iodine and selenium, and they're in a world of bromine, so you have to supplement the iodine,

either with kelp or iodorol, there's a whole different ways you can take it, all of which are good for you, and selium so I need me to find any pharmacy 200 Micrograms once a day, you know take that, you know All minerals are best taken with food to absorb them better But take selenium every day and that helps support the thyroid that and I fixed the leaky gut So that's the way I approach but unfortunately most doctors just check TSH. It's the most bizarre approach, but unfortunately most doctors just check TSH. It's the most bizarre thing. Yes. I'm, I'm so glad that you brought up the thorough, because this is something I

have gone on and on and on about because this is a personal thing that I have personally experienced, but the testing, I want people to pay, go back and rewatch that what you said you test because in a traditional setting, they never test all of these things. And then even if they do, they don't discuss with you what would be an optimal range for your optimal health. They don't seem to understand that so many people are operating with an underactive thyroid, for all the reasons that you just said, that's it's like your gut health,

it's so many things that are happening your body that are are affecting that which affects everything and it can be a huge contributor to feeling horrible. And, and all kinds of other ways. The greatest cause of fatigue that there is. Yes, fatigue, it managing your weight, if you're a thyroid. Cold intolerance, if you're cold all the time. Yes, yes. And then nevermind like the physical fallout that you can have, because when Jason was talking about, it can age you faster. It can make you look terrible. It can cause thinning of the eyebrows.

It can cause thinning of the hair, like so many issues associated with. Yes. And this is one thing that I get really frustrated when people are often go just blabbing about people eating too much and things like that. And that's why you're dealing with your weight issues. And I'm like, no, it's because people's metabolism has been poisoned and their thyroid is not functioning correctly. And I have seen people barely eat. And obviously, I know that like fasting can actually be detrimental to thyroid health, but I'm just saying it is not an issue of too many calories or too much junk food or anything like that.

Like it's all this other stuff. But anyway, thank you so much for mentioning the very thorough testing that you do for the thyroid. Because if people go in their normal doctor, you are not going to get these things. And even if you try to advocate for yourself, can you do another test besides just the T three and the T four, they will give you pushback. They really will. So, um, and then one quick question on the selenium.

So in, in my personal blood work that I've had done, my levels of selenium were fine, but do you still recommend supplementing even on top of that? Okay. Yes, because selenium, there's 200 enzymes in the body that require selenium to work. You know, it's interesting, you know, I tell patients do a few things. I like to give them zinc, magnesium, selenium,

those three minerals at the very least, along with iodine, because magnesium, 300 enzymes, zinc, 200 enzymes, selenium 200 enzymes. So right there you've got 700 enzymes that now are optimally functioning in your body. And each one of those enzymes catalyzes a reaction, speeds it up. And downstream from that is producing things that your body needs or allowing metabolic things that your body needs to function properly. You cannot function, it's like running a car

without oil in it, you know, or something essential for it. You gotta have all the essential things for it to run smoothly. And so if you give those three or four, right away things start improving because you've de facto downstream have created a cascade of now things becoming functional that previously were non-functional or partially functioning.

And so you get a lot of bang out of your buck for those kind of things going downhill. But you have to be disciplined about taking this stuff. The other thing I do, I never use, or I shouldn't say never, I use a lot, but I try not to. Pharmaceutical companies force me into it, using Synthroid or synthetic thyroid hormones. I use NP and Armour thyroid. Now doctors hate them because they're,

and they are a pain in the ass to use, because they combine T4 and T3, and it takes a lot more expertise and a lot more patience with it. You have to, and it comes in grains, which is, you know, so it's, you got one and a half grains of this, two grains of that, but you know, you get used to it. It's not that hard. But amazingly endocrinologists don't do it.

They just stick with synthroid, which is synthetic thyroid. I tell them, why not use the natural stuff? And it only works, isn't synthroid the one that only works on your T4 instead of treating both T3? Right, right, right. It's only T4. Well, that's all they ever give us, T4. They ignore T3 completely and they ignore reverse T3, which is interesting.

Reverse T3 is a T3 that doesn't work. It by-produces it. So you have to fly, give them Cytomel, which is pure T3 to overcome that. And then I measure free and total levels again, and I keep an eye on this as I go. But you'll see that, you know, and their body temperature go up because it controls metabolism.

So what- That's it, that's it. Yeah, you want to be 98.6 degrees right when you wake up. That is gold. Exactly, exactly. That's where you, that's the sweet spot where your body functions the best and all those enzymes function better because they need to be in that environment. that's the sweet spot, where your body functions the best and all those enzymes function better

because they need to be in that environment. They need the right temperature, they need the right pH for them to all function properly. But that's the sweet spot. Years ago, before we had labs, doctors treated hypothyroidism simply by their body temperature. They checked your body temperature.

I've always basically come in at 97.2 and I'm like, what's up with you? They're tired, they're cold all the time, they're constipated, their hair is falling out. And so a lot of times now in patients who even have normal labs, the last couple years I've been treating them anyway if they have the symptoms of thyroid problems.

I treat them until I get their body temperature up to the normal range. You gotta be a little careful. Sometimes it causes tachycardia, fast heart rate, but most of the time it doesn't. And I'll give them thyroid hormone, you know, just in natural stuff, MP or armor. And first of all, they go, my brain fog is gone.

I'm thinking clearly. I've got energy all day. I'm sleeping better. My hair's growing better. My skin looks better. I'm thinking clearly. I've got energy all day. I'm sleeping better. My hair is growing better. My skin looks better. I'm losing weight. You know, I'm warm, I'm freaking freezing all the time. He's went especially with middle aged women. They come in and they're, they're cold all year round. They're middle of the summer. They've got sweaters on. You're not too like that.

No comment on that. I know I'm like that. But, but you know, so that's what that that's that's the best way to do that and thyroid is an epidemic that's under diagnosed and once again the bromine problem is huge because even when the labs are normal if you don't supplement iodine with them you're winding up with empty thyroid hormone that's not functional you know but getting to the light therapy, the best two are red light therapy and near infrared. Those are the two that are the most beneficial for you.

Now all of those are in sunlight. So it's in the spectrum of natural sunlight. So I'm a big proponent of sunlight. Even if you're fair skinned like Jason or someone, early morning, late day sun you want. That's the healthiest sun for you. And you do it enough to get a little rosy and stop. No sunblock on.

You stay out there, your skin will acclimate to it, your skin will improve, your health will improve. Vitamin D deficiency is an epidemic. Among all my patients of color have it. For obvious reasons, their melanin blocks. It would be okay if they were in Africa or in a tropical environment where they were designed to be, you know, but you bring them in a temperate environment like the United States and it's an epidemic of them having low vitamin D levels.

And no one spends time in the sun anymore anyway. And so the irony is my very fair skinned white patients have the same vitamin D problems that my black skinned patients have because they were in sunblock all the time. They're terrified of the sun just lathering on them. Can I jump in on that doc? Because I've actually experienced this being like you talk about. I can't go out even when it's cloudy. It seems like the clouds don't matter. I still get sunburned. I actually get sunburned worse on overcast days. And there was aburned. I actually get sunburned worse on overcast days. And there was a few years that I actually had to work outside. You know, as part of my job, I had to work outside all day long.

And I slowly exposed myself to get a little rosy pink, not quite burned, you know, not quite to second degree burns from the sun. second degree burns from the sun. And over time, my body did respond and I actually got tanned. Now, that goes away when you're ginger like me, it goes away, it peels away. But if it comes to a point where you can build the resistance where you can be outside all day in the sun, and I can tell you right now, for those couple years that I was working outside and did that, kept myself somewhat somewhat tan. I was very healthy. I didn't get sick.

Um, I, and I felt good. I had a lot of energy too. That was the thing. I had a lot, a lot of energy and I was not a big guy. I probably weighed 135, 140 pounds. How tall are you? Uh, five, nine, five, eight now after the army. But yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, the interesting thing with, with skin, what I do now with people with skin tones like you is DMSO. You put the DMSO on before you go out and DMSO protects your skin from radiation damage. So you'll still, it won't block the sun. It'll still allow the ultraviolet to get through

that you need. You need ultraviolet B to make vitamin D. Ultraviolet A penetrates deeper in your skin and vitamin D and that causes a lot of skin damage. the It'll protect you. It actually mitigates damage there. There you go. That's right. It's great stuff. I'm telling you. I always take notes, Doc. When we do a show together, I always take notes.

That's good. That's good. But it's so yeah, getting back to the sunshine, people are, they need vitamin D. I try to explain to patients all the time because they always poo poo it. Oh, Doc, vitamin D. I can listen to me. I put them on 50,000 units of D3 weekly. Once again, doctors give it and never tell them, you gotta take it with fat or it goes right through you.

You will not absorb it. You gotta take it with fat, you gotta take the magnesium and K2 with it. And that's all beneficial stuff, none of those will have side effects. It'll be great for you. But sunlight is key. We gotta get kids outside.

You gotta get them in the sun. Interesting thing, you put babies in the sun, they'll be taller. It increases the height of children if you get them out in the sun. Infants, you put them out in the sun without sunblock. Well, they're getting burnt. But they should be out in the sun a little bit.

Mothers carried them with them all the time. They weren't in the shade. It doesn't hurt them. Even ginger ones, really fair ones. Little sun is great for them. So I wanted to ask a quick question. Do you have a recommendation to your patients as far as wearing sunglasses?

Because in what I have been reading, and then I basically am at the point now where I am sun-seeking every single day Natural light and I never wear sunglasses ever. Yes, and I never wear sunscreen. Yeah, I don't either Yeah, sunglasses are terrible for you because of melatonin Melatonin is key for your health I take sometimes 40 or 60 milligrams of melatonin a night. Scrape you, it's a strong antioxidant, it's anti-cancer,

it's anti-aging, it has no bad side effects at all. You dream like, ooh baby, have it. It's like. It's like. I can't stop 30 milligrams a night. Yeah, it's great stuff for you. But interestingly enough, there is a huge connection. I got a sub stack, it's into my list of things to write about

between electricity and cancer. For example, nurses that work night shift have astronomical rates of breast cancer and stuff because blue light, you need blue light during the day. Blue light suppresses melatonin production. Once again, we're made to be out in the sun. That bright sunlight all day shuts down your daytime melatonin, which is good for you. And then at night, when that blue light, that part of the sun's visual spectrum is removed

at night when it's dark, your melatonin production peaks the way it should. You want that diurnal variation. That's the way your body is designed for it. Computers have made a lot of blue light and a lot of artificial lights and stuff. In fact, they've even done studies in schools, fluorescent lighting causes more behavior problems than natural lighting.

Right, and there's a- Can I jump in? Yeah. I wanna say, and I've brought this up on a few episodes, there's actually scientific research behind it. And every phone, every single phone that you buy has to have the blue light filter thing on it to take the blue light away.

Because they know that the blue light causes a disruption in the production of melatonin, natural melatonin. And if you take a look at all these social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, all this, they use a lot of blue colors. They're all blue colors. The reason they do that is to keep the mind engaged to keep you from going to sleep to keep you on there longer. Because that's their that's their bread and butter. That's their money, baby. They can keep you on until midnight,

at one o'clock, two o'clock in the morning, because you can't sleep. Well, their little caveat is, well, we have a blue light filter, and then you can put it in nighttime mode. And every phone has a nighttime mode, at least if it's sold in America. Maybe if you order one from overseas, maybe not, but it has to have the nighttime mode on it. I think they say the suggestion is two hours before you're supposed to go to sleep.

You need to turn that either turn your phone off or put that nighttime mode on because what it does it cuts all the blue light out so you can still use your phone but you're not receiving that blue light and your body can start creating that melatonin to help you get to sleep. So there are glasses you can wear up there. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. what it does it cuts all the blue light out so you can still use your phone but you're not receiving that blue light and your body can start creating that

melatonin to help you get to sleep. There are glasses you can wear to block it as well. But getting back to what Ashley was saying about sunglasses that throws off everything. Now your body sees that as nighttime. You know it's not allowing the sunlight into your pineal gland through your eye to your brain that's how it absorbs it. And the pineal gland is what produces melatonin and that That that's not shut down then during the day so you don't get the surge at night and it throws things off So it's our circadian rhythm. Yes, sir. Okay, the way it fools your body into thinking it's nighttime Which is not good for obvious reasons

But once again get out in the sun. Get out in the sunshine. Get out, play ball out there. Drink some water out of the hose. You'll be OK. Didn't kill us. I hear that our engineer is talking about allowing incandescent light bulbs

to be manufactured again. That would be fantastic. Yes, right. Once again, we keep evolving in the wrong direction with this It's it no one does long-term studies all all of the stuff that they've been putting in these Generally regarded as safe a lot of them were not a lot of these toxic chemicals that we put but Europe has 3,300 chemicals we allow that they don't allow In their foods and stuff that we allow here. Why?

Why do we allow it and they don't you know? Yeah, I think he's also talking about ways to discontinue that generally considers a safe guideline where the food manufacturers Say for themselves whether or not the ingredients are safe or not and Allow themselves to do the testing. So he's talking about removing that grass guideline so that would be a really a big step forward. I also saw that the warnings about chlorine dioxide have been removed from the FDA website. Well that's I saw a post that said that we'll have to check it out. I'm I've verified it but I saw someone say very quietly that the warnings about chlorine dioxide

have been removed. So that's that would be great. Yeah that's some effective stuff I just can't get past the taste. Well I think there are some versions that have a better... A little bleach like either way. It's like, oh man. We call it stinky water at my house. But interestingly enough, I was hoping that Kennedy would also introduce mandatory testing of supplements. There is a ton of supplements that either don't contain anything that they say they're supposed to contain or have smaller amounts of it or other stuff in it.

You know, I mean, make the supplement companies pay for their own testing. Yeah. So I got a caveat on that doc and we had a lot of problems in the army with this. I got a caveat on that doc and we had a lot of problems in the army with this. I mean they have GNC stores in the shop at area, you know, the PX area. There is no testing. They try to put it in, you know, the formulation that's put on the label, but you don't know. It could be so far off either way and there could be other stuff in there. We've had people that popped hot for drug tests continually, especially the people who are really into fitness and bodybuilding, they will pop hot for blood tests or urine tests, sorry,

and they would blame it on the supplements and there was just no way to prove or disprove it. Because I can go buy the same thing that you say you took and test it and it may be different. So yeah, I would like to see supplements be held to the same standards as our cereal, our breakfast cereal. I worked in a cereal factory and we had scientists that would test every batch of cereal. And if it did not meet the exact within one or two percent of what the label said it had ingredient wise

it had to get thrown out it was turned into dog food or cat food like the dry food yeah right yeah so uh yeah i would like to see that as well yeah that would be a great step forward because then people are that's why i try to stick to brands like life extension foundation and things that i know are really rock solid well somehow they say that they have a lab testing, a third party testing, some supplements. Right, some do. I don't know how you verify that either, but. Right, there are brands I use online that say that, right,

and I hope, larger brands, I say, okay, it's better, I'll try to stick with this, you know, but you get what you pay for in the end. But you know, I'm always finding myself ordering stuff from Amazon, I hate Jeff Bezos, I hate Amazon. But I do it and I think, oh God. But I'll have it tomorrow morning. Do you like to throw in any quick thoughts

about CBD or hemp or? I'm an old hippie. I went to college in the 70s. But yeah, I'm all for it. I think CBD has amazing potential, especially for childhood epilepsy and things like that. At least allow them to have it. Why keep this from people? It's not the THC is in it.

It's not psychoactive. You don't have to worry about it if there's very scant amounts. I happen to be the medical marijuana doctor for my county. I'm the guy the medical marijuana doctor for my county, so it's a, I'm the guy who gives out all the cards, you know. But yeah, but it's, yeah, I mean, marijuana has got some great effects.

I mean, I'd rather have patients smoke a little weed than drink heavily in alcohol. You know, no one smokes a joint, goes home, beats their wife and wrecks their car. You know, it's, you know, once again, it's moderation, as with all things. I have so many people with this hyperamesis

from smoking such potent pot. Now, you know, the THC content's way higher than it used to be and they're just smoking it all day, you know, and they wind up, they can't stop vomiting. They wind up with these, that's a common scenario now in the emergency rooms and stuff. But CBD has great benefits overall. A lot of people are using it in different forms and stuff.

One of the other things that the problems I have with patients is this nonsense of vaping. They think that vaping is safe somehow. I said, no, it's not safe. It's worse almost in many ways. It penetrates much deeper into the lung and stuff. It carries things with it. And especially kids are heavily into vaping. They have flavor vaping and stuff for them that should all be outlawed. I did write an interesting substack on the benefits of nicotine though a few weeks ago because there are some benefits cognitive benefits

and stuff. That was the most well received one I ever wrote. I couldn't believe it. People are talking about using nicotine also for long COVID possibly. Yeah, yeah. I'm not convinced that it works so great for long COVID. Like I said, I like the augmented NAC along with the lumbro kinase and some of the other things I use for that.

But yeah, I'm open to it. Let them experiment. That's the beauty of grassroots people's medicine that's kind of developed organically. People like you folks and different things that help bring that to the public. Thank God it's people like you doing it. Because it helps, because otherwise,

the main challenge, you're not getting it. But this now, this grassroots movement for news and information, that's not censored. That's what's great about Substack. It's not censored, there's great political stuff on here, there's great science stuff on here, there's great medical stuff. No one's ever saying, take that down.

YouTube hates me. They won't want me anywhere in there. I was talking about the vaccine at first and they just took down everything. Censored me. Who the hell are they? The censors. We're Americans. We're free. The same thing happened to us. We were banned for life.

And we literally put up Pfizer's own documents. You remember the document dump? Right. Yeah, we put it up and um, Pfizer's own documents. Like when you remember the document dump, right. Yeah. We, we put it up and quoted it, read it verbatim and gone band for life. Right. So it's, it's, it's madness, but you know, uh, some things have improved.

Twitter has turned out to be good. You know, uh, muskets on some amazing things. I wish he would stop fighting with Trump and get back, settle that and get it over with. But overall things are moving forward. We got some good things going on and the Maha movement's great. There's a lot of good health movements going on that, I mean, I think that doctors are foolish

in many ways because they're overworked and they don't have the time to explore this stuff on their own it takes a lot of work I mean I I spend eight or ten hours a week Prepping for an article. I'm right. I research every fact to make sure because every once while you have something in your mind You think is right and hey, yeah. Yeah, so let me check this and yep You know ninety nine point nine percent of time right, but every once in a while something comes up You know you pointed out something earlier in this interview doc, uh, about lawsuits

and stuff, and I think that's why medicine is kind of stagnant in the mainstream is because people don't want to get outside that super highway of what's authorized, right? Because if you try something different and maybe there's a bad outcome, uh, it may not even be your fault. Maybe it was just, you know, like you were talking about the breast cancer and stuff. Um, then now you're liable. So it's just easier to go with the super highway of this is where everything goes and collect the insurance money and, Hey, we can do a couple extra tests you

don't need and collect some more money. Yeah. Well, I mean, I don't think they're looking at it that way. I think 99% of the guys are, are altruistic. They're looking at it. Like I want to do the best thing, but they just don't need and collect some more money. Yeah, well I mean I don't think they're looking at it that way. I think 99% of the guys are are altruistic. They're looking at like I want to do the best thing but they just don't know. No, you know, they're getting their information from drug reps which I get a lot of information from drug reps. It's great because I want to know the newest drugs that are coming in. I don't

primary care. I don't have time for this, you know, and they bring me the new drugs so I know about it and stuff but I'm not blindly accepting things. You know, I kind of do my own research into a lot of stuff and I look for my own ways to cure things, but it takes a lot of work. I mean, I feel like it used to be that doctors were problem solvers, investigators, problem solvers, critical thinkers. Right. And that, that element has kind of been removed for so many people now.

So that's what I really appreciate about you is that you're still thinking, you're still problem solving, looking for new ideas, keeping an open mind. Yeah, it's exciting. There's this great stuff out there. And, you know, Substack really has changed everything because it's guys, I mean, I read articles

and every night they just blow my mind. Yeah. There's great stuff on there that you couldn't get anywhere else. I mean, I read articles on every night that just blow my mind. There's great stuff on there that you couldn't get anywhere else. I mean, I was writing an article of the side effects from the COVID vaccine. There's nothing out there still. It's still all censored.

If you Google that, all it says is, oh, this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. You know, it just praises it left and right. I'm thinking, God, there's nothing out there. It's amazing. You know, I have patients that come in, I call them true believers, I openly mock them. They'll come in and say, I just got my vaccine. I go, why do you keep doing that? If I go, first of all, you've had six vaccines.

You've had COVID four times in the last year. What was less, the one you gotta realize these vaccines don't work, you have worse outcomes that you're vaccinated and they always fall back. It saved a million people. I go, they say it saved a million people. It killed more than it saved. That was just their nonsense. They're just saying, I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. you have worse outcomes that you're vaccinated and they always fall back, oh, it saved a million people.

I go, they say it saved a million people, it killed more than it saved. That was just their nonsense from the beginning. There's absolutely no science backing that up. Just like there's no science backing up the masks, no 20 feet or six feet separation, all the shit they told us is worldwide. Every one of them.

Well, nothing's quantifiable. If I say safe and effective, what does safe mean? the You know, they were talking about 97.5% It was a moving target. It just kept changing. But now they just use the blanket word effective, but that's not quantifiable. And when we talk about rare, that's what really upsets me, is we're looking at the, if you look at the numbers, what is rare? Is rare one in ten, one in five, one in three. There's, it's not quantifiable. And that's one thing we learned in the military is when you spit out something,

you better have it quantifiable. You better have a percentage, you better have something, and they don't do that in the mainstream medical as far as advertising the stuff. Right, right. Yeah, well, like you alluded to earlier, it's pharmaceutical driven, a lot of it. And in the interest of pharmaceutical companies, what's in the interest of pharmaceutical companies

is not necessarily in the interest of the patients. And so the two are going, in fact, most of the time, they go in opposite directions. Very rarely is there a drug that is a game changer across the board, a silver bullet that by itself will be screwed without. There's very few of those. There are, they're out there, but there's very few of them.

And so for the most part, pharmaceuticals are just a bandaid to put on things, but we use them chronically and no one looks at the interaction of the meds themselves with each other. Well, we've gone down a good two and a half hours here and I think we've covered some great topics so many interesting Topics and information from you some little tidbits and stories from everybody Let's show we wrap it up

So let's act let Ashley make her final thoughts and I was gonna say yeah one last shot at me actually come on Give me your best Well, um really we were able to cut we covered so much in today's episode, but we were, um, definitely covered the things that I wanted to talk about. I'm very concerned about the use of SSRIs and the difficulty of people being able to come off of them. Um, but I think that you definitely address the, uh, the biggest issue for getting on or getting off is really going to be your

lifestyle and looking at some of those foundational building blocks to help you feel better outside of, you know, everything else and just looking at your lifestyle. And then of course, like, I'm so glad that we talked about the hypothyroid epidemic, because it's very under talked about. It's, And as you had said, there's a very simple check, your temperature, the first thing in the morning when you wake up, and if it is below 97.5 or 97.8, whatever that guideline is from Dr. Broda Barnes, then that is a symptom of hypothyroidism and then some ways to correct that. And then of course, talking about red light therapy. So these are all things that I'm super interested in. And we have, we've covered that. So Dr. Barnes did great stuff on it. Yeah. Yeah. So I really hope that some people will, will really pay attention to, of course, the entire episode, but specifically

what you talked about with the testing the the tests that you do on patients thyroids because it's really difficult to get though that amount of testing done from a normal interaction with your doctor and I know some people some doctors probably will work with you and try to facilitate that if You advocate for yourself, but sometimes there are insurance limitations. If they don't have an indication of hypothyroidism or if they don't have an indication from one of the tests. I put fatigue as an invitation and it's never denied. It goes through the thyroid testing for fatigue.

Good. You could add cold intolerance if you want and that usually pushes them over the edge. Great, yeah. So I hope that people will pay attention to what you said and to really advocate for themselves. If this is something that they suffer from to, to get the testing done or, and make sure that you're tracking your morning waking temperature, that's a really good indicator as well. So tons of good information and thank you very much for, for everything that you have

shared with us. It's been really, really good. Thank you, Jason. Yeah, doc, thanks a lot. I think we covered everything I had on my plate, as far as what I wanted to know. The DHEA was kind of an interesting article. I highly suggest everybody go subscribe to your sub stack and read that it's one of your latest articles. Yeah, my sub stack is actually a course in functional integrative medicine, alternative

medicine, because eventually I'll hit on almost everything. There's probably 120 articles on there right now. If people like it, they should go buy this book. I'm telling you right now. And I didn't do this willy nilly, right? So again, not medical advice or anything. I didn't buy Dr. LaGuardia's book and stop taking my blood pressure medications. What I saw was that they almost killed me with blood pressure medication. Literally, I went and looked up what side effects I had once they up my dose and I literally should have been on a crash cart waiting to be revived because I was that

close to death. And so they, you know, I went to my doctor after I recovered from that, they put me on a different medication. I said, this isn't working either. So it was a combination between my doctor and the advice in the book, as far as dietary changes and supplements and things like that. And we slowly worked myself off of them. So now I haven't taken medication in two years.

Excellent. Yeah, no medications whatsoever. Other than the supplements I take for like fish oil and GEEK or Plova. Right, right. But anyway. Supplements I don't count as medication. Right, right.

But no, the population decrease, or not population, but fertility decrease is a real big concern of mine across the globe. We did talk on that. And I was really interested. I wish we could have got into it a little bit more, but people can go read your subject, your subject on the decline in religion, meditation, prayer, because I think a lot of this chronic prescribing of these different things, including SSRIs, are because of what we're immersed in. The overstimulation. That is an excellent article, doctor. I think everybody who owns a phone or a computer should go read that so they can be cautioned into not falling. I just want to add one thing. By the way, don't ever charge your phone next to your bed. Right. Put your phone in the other room. Don't keep one of those boosters for your internet,

for the connection in your house. Don't do any of that in your bedroom. Keep your bedroom dark. No electronic thing. My alarm clock has a battery in it. There's no electronic devices allowed in our bedroom. Everything's over in the bathroom charging. I will say this.

My phone goes into airplane mode every single night, if I can remember remember and I unplug my Wi-Fi router and it makes a world of difference of how you feel in the morning. Even if you only get five or six hours sleep, you will feel the difference. A lot of people turn off the breaker for their bedroom at night and then the people who can afford it or who are really want to invest some time and money into it hardwire their Internet in their phone in their house and even have outlets with wires to plug cell phones in in several rooms. And then they have a they call it a quiet room in their house.

That's shielded. I know R.F.K. Junior talked about having a building biologist come and build a quiet room, a safe room in his home that was fielded. So it's important to have that break for your body when you sleep. Steel roofs on your house. Right. Well, I got my workshop, my workshop and Karen, I think seen pictures of it. I spend most of my days out there now watching little JJ and it's an all metal building barely gets any signal.

Yeah. For me to have Internet down there, I literally have a Wi-Fi repeater that's probably about six feet from the router right here on my computer. barely gets any signal. For me to have internet down there, I literally have a Wi-Fi repeater that's probably about six feet from the router right here on my desk and it barely gets signal. So it's almost a Faraday cage. Since I've been hanging out there every day, I feel so much better. I'll roll the garage door up so I'm getting the sunlight every day. And I'm, yeah, I'm still in the wifi, but it's kind of attenuated. My phone gets like one bar. So it's, it's attenuated somewhat. And I could

tell the difference, uh, big time. That was JJ really fair like you? No, no. He's, he's, uh, he's mix. He's, his dad is, or his dad is black and his mom is an Irish mix. He's kind of in the middle of the road. Right. Right. Yeah. Cool. So I really enjoyed speaking with you. I enjoy your substack tremendously. It's, it's a Dr. LaGuardia subject. He has a huge range of topics. Uh, on you name the topic. He's got it. It's cutting edge. He's staying right with the breaking news and the,

on the edge of the frontline of health and, but also a lot of traditional topics, a lot of basic building blocks that we can use to increase our wellbeing. And I feel like the, one of the main messages that I get just from these types of discussions is that we're responsible in a large way for our own health. We need to question things. And we're not calling so much into question the judgment or the knowledge of the doctor. But we also have to question things for ourselves and verify that they're right for us.

And there are a lot of systems now and people that are more outside the health system, especially with so many doctors leaving the system during the COVID and nurses, nurse practitioners who are setting up their own practices with different modalities. And they'll help you do lab tests. You can order lab tests for quite a few for yourself. You know, so then, and then there's a lot of cash pay services now that don't use insurance. So you actually pay less for services with cash pay and you have a little bit more freedom. And so, you know, we have all of these options opening up to us.

So it's really it's really nice that there are people like Dr. LaGuardia that will help us with those and guide us and be there as a resource for us. So I thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you all for having me. I really appreciate it. And I still have probably 10 questions. So we'll have to do it again soon. Okay, that sounds great.

All right. Thank you. All right, take care. Have a great night, guys. Are you too? One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, You're listening to the David Knight Show. I think I kick us out a little early, Karen. I'm sorry about that. We're live and we have a special guest joining us, Angry Tiger. Great to have you here with us. Greetings and salutations to one and all. How is everybody today? We have a good time today in the chat replaying through the interview and

I wanted to say thank you so much to all the people who were here with us today and all your great comments and questions and just I wanna say that all of us are in a different place in our learning journey. And most of us here are pretty far away from the allopathic medical design, but there are various doctors that woke up along the way during COVID or slightly before and we're all learning together and whatever information is offered to you or words used that you may not agree with the use of the word. For example, long COVID, some of us would

call that Vax injury. Others would say we don't know what long COVID is. Personally, I think EMF and toxins account for a lot of symptoms that we have. So we just wanted to share Dr. LaGuardia's information and knowledge and questioning, learning. He's, he's got an open mind and he continues to learn. And I really appreciate that quality about him. And with as with anybody, we take what is valuable to us and we leave the rest of the information. So Angry Tiger would you like to fill us in on a financial report or whatever you'd like to discuss for a little while?

Absolutely. First of all what an excellent interview and Dr. LaGuardia it's always a pleasure listening to him it's extremely refreshing and I think you made a very good point. I think a lot of us become fundamentalists and word Nazis. And we get into this pigeonhole area of life where if it's not 100% pure to our viewpoint, then we discount it. And I think that that's a big mistake

because then you're taking information that you could use from a source that you might not like or they're using wording that you might not be particularly something, the way that you agree with it, the wording, and then you're discounting the information. Well, you can learn things from people like that. So it's very important that we keep an open mind. We talk to people we disagree with, and there might be some things that they say that we can learn from, and they might learn from us. So that's very important. Economy wise, wow, there is a lot going on. If you watch my reports, you know the

American economy is in decline. It has been in decline for quite some time. I like to look at the leading economic indicators, you know, manufacturing indexes, stuff like that, wholesale good orders, durable good orders. And we have been in contraction in manufacturing and leading all leading economic indicators for over two years and now it's worse. And all of a sudden look we have a war. And health of the state is war. It gives the opportunity of the central bank to pull more money from the future into now. And what we see going on is a controlled demolition of the economy, of the United States economy, a controlled demolition of the dollar. Their de-dollarization is all over the place as Tony Ardern always talks about. And that's's not a myth that's something that's real. With the current situation with the war between Israel

Iran and the United States now being involved there's a lot going on and it's all happening for a reason this is part of this demolition this is part of the consolidation and the reset of the monetary system into a digital currency age and we're gonna see a lot of things happen and I wanna break some of that down with you. Number one, globally, geopolitically, you have Russia, this affects the whole world. Russia's quietly moving pieces around.

We of course are supporting Israel. I mean, we pretty much came out and said that yesterday. You have Saudi Arabia, UAE, all those people, they're on a tightrope, Turkey, they're kinda seeing which way the wind is gonna blow, I think. And then you have China, who is the smartest of this whole group.

They're sitting back and waiting, right? They're like, ah, look at everybody fighting each other, we'll pick up the scraps globally, economically. They are in a good position'll pick up the scraps. Globally, economically, they are in a good position to pick up what the United States is going to leave behind. And they already have, when it comes to our manufacturing and being the global dominant force when it comes to manufacturing and providing goods to the rest of the world. So we have lost that position. And that puts us in a very, very poor position here at home for the value

of our dollar. I've been tracking the dollar. The dollar has been below support level for over two months now. It's not getting any better. And that's one of the reasons I think this war is, it's not a coincidence it's happening now because what's going to happen as this starts to get bigger and bigger is capital is going to go to places where they, like I said in my podcast, like it's a safe cave, right? A safe place. Capital is gonna go into what they consider lower risk assets. So you're gonna see the dollar jump up a little bit. It

might get back to support level. I would be really surprised if it doesn't as this conflict continues. You're gonna see the bond market. You're gonna see the 10-year yield and T-bills and the bond market yields drop a little bit, okay, because they're extremely unstable. You have the Fed going in and buying the debt to keep the bond market stable. This is gonna ease that mechanism a little bit because people are gonna look for a safe haven for their capital. While all this is going on, the bigs, they're taking all this fresh money that's being printed for this war. It's going to the military industrial complex. The stock market, it's going to get volatile.

It's going to go up and down. Insider trading left and right. All the bigs are going to move, start moving their dollars into commodities, which they have been doing, hard commodities, any kind of commodity they can, because they don't keep their money in U.S. dollars. So a lot's going to go on. Another thing that I'm really worried about is the oil booby trap has been, it's about to,

it's already been triggered. We already, oil's already up. But the problem is, is the straight of Harmoose there, if that begins to, if they close that, you're gonna see, that's 20% of the world's oil supply coming out of there, okay? That's going to affect the market. That's going to affect the price of oil. Our gas prices are gonna go up.

All of these things are gonna, it's a domino reaction. All these things are gonna happen. And we could see $120 a barrel oil, no problem, even more, if it gets bad enough. So this whole war has basically a reason and another mechanism for the bankers war has as basically a reason and a Another mechanism for the bankers to pull money from the future into the now to devalue the dollar to move ahead With this this system of CBDC things will be so bad

By the end of all this that the general public will be begging for a solution and they're gonna say hey look at this CBDC tether coin we can we can control the the amount of money that's in the system in real time okay and we'll be able to control inflation that way and what it really is going to control is you and that's that's the big problem with all of this it's definitely happening and this war is going to accelerate it. The S&P 500 last month, the number one driver of the S&P 500 last month was stock buybacks. That is a freeze frame of where our economy is at right now. We are in the midst of cannibalizing ourselves right now in the markets.

I'm watching that in the markets, the cannibalization of the markets. And like I said, 90% of the stock market is held by 1% of the population, maybe two. Okay, so all the bigs, they're killing it. They're making money hand over fist. They're not worried about this. But expect a lot of market volatility,

expect oil prices to go up. And you can expect the bond market and the dollar to get stronger, shortterm midterm and then long-term Major crash is happening faster than in 2008 so everybody prepare yourselves for that and What I would say is the best thing you can do is get into a safe haven asset for the common man That would be gold and silver and I would you know I know everyone here knows about this but the best way that to get into the gold and

silver game is to go through wise wall get that subscription plan I mean 35 bucks and you can have it you know I think it's the cub the cub plan and you can have some gold and silver being sent to your house this is something that is so important to protect yourself to protect the value of your money by investing it in hard commodities like gold and silver, precious metals that you have, that you hold. So with that being said, everybody, if you're already in the Wise Wall, if you're in the Wolf Pack already and you're finding it a little bit difficult to keep up with that monthly subscription, go down a couple notches. There's nothing wrong with that. If you can't afford the monthly subscription, I suggest maybe you take your a change jar, something, your bottle money, or you know if you take back bottles in your state, you can do that. Whatever it is, whatever little extra money you have, save that and get

some gold and silver, some precious metals, or even some commodities that you can barter with because we don't know how Horrible this is gonna be but with that being said definitely protect your money by you know getting into the gold and silver I You know Tony and the wise wolf over there all the whole staff and the reason Tony does this is not So much profit driven. This is more because he believes in this. This is a true way to protect yourself from what we have coming. We all see the writing on the wall.

So we really need to make sure that we're prepared for this. And that is the best way you go to go to go to the Wolfpack website, go to, you know, wisewolfgolden, you know, wisewolf.com, get to the Wolfpack website, you use that promo code David Knight. And you know, it helps Davidcom, get to the Wolfpack website, use that promo code David Knight, and you know, it helps David out, helps you out. It's a win-win situation all the way around.

So that's basically my financial wrap up here. We're in a lot of trouble and this war is just another symptom and another signal of how fast we are in decline. Okay, great information. Jason, did you want to unveil your Wolfpack package right now? We have about five minutes, four minutes. Yeah, thank you, Karen.

If we go over a couple of minutes over, that's okay. But yeah, I'm glad you brought up the Wolfpack. And actually, let me throw this on screen real quick. Let me see if I can find it. Here it is. Actually did this. So if you're looking on the screen right now, if you're not listening on audio, if you're watching on video, I have David Knight dot news up top, David Knight dot gold that

will get you to Tony's Wolfpack. Or, you know, and by the way, if you just have to do a purchase, like a one time purchase, you can do it through Wolfpack as a one time and you're going to get the buying power of a group, so you're gonna get a little bit more for your buck. And what I have here is I actually got my Wolfpack, I have a monthly thing as well.

And then I'm not saying that gold and silver, I know a lot of people are turned off by the gold and silver thing, but I do a little bit of everything. I got property, I've got ammunition, I've got guns, I've got storable food. Gold and silver is just one of the ways to diversify. So, so I opened my wolf pack. I haven't opened it open yet, I just cut it open, but this came inside this.

You're gonna get a cost comparison sheet, which is my, I keep these filed away to see what I paid for them and let's see what I got this month All right, so I've got oh I got beans the brave stickers. That's cool. Oh, awesome. Yeah, I got some some gold backs I'm not sure how many is in here probably two or three That's the cool thing is that Tony will make sure that he rounds it up I guess you can say rounds it up to make sure you get something fractional to make To make sure that you get your full thing

Looks like I got two silver rounds All these are new I don't have these yet. This is something new. It's a sahi. Is that Japanese I don't know you get a lot of really cool numismatic Is that Japanese? I don't know. You get a lot of really cool numismatic coins from from wise. Well, that's one of the really cool things about it. And then I got some beautiful coins. I got some 90 percent silver to top it off.

It's a couple of half dollars and a couple of mercury dimes. So and, you know, that's just thought I'd do the unboxing there. And while we're plugging, let me go ahead and plug everybody because this was a great show Karen. You did a fantastic job with the interview Thank you so much. I I really enjoy the health issues Tremendously and it's an honor and I just really enjoy Talking with dr. LaGuardia or anybody whose brain I can pick about health All right. Let me let me plug plug everybody out here So make sure you go to David show and the reason we're bringing this up, you know, because David is supported. He's listener supported

So if you enjoy the show and I know he's at a commission right now. He's healing Travis is holding it down We're trying to help out where we can but But, you know, go help out if you like the show. It's a value for value type thing. I know when David started, when Alex fired him, I canceled my Netflix. And I said, Let me just put this money towards Subscribestar so it's a monthly recurring. I ain't got to worry about it. I get more. I watched David more hours of the week than I was watching Netflix. So it just makes sense, right? But yeah, go to David Knight. I think it's David Knight dot news. Now you can go get there. It's a little bit easier to type. You can donate to him by sending a check here to this PO box. You can cash app

Zelle, which is also on the screen right now. If you look at the bottom, I didn't put that up the whole time because I don't want to be a digital panhandler. But yet David needs he's going to need it now with the medical costs that are coming up, by the way. All the places you can find him and then some merch you can get this coin here. It's there's a new version. It's like a copper like a brass looking one. I actually got one. It's pretty phenomenal. I like it better than the first coin. Of course, these are sold out. Uh,

I think, uh, for the love of the road, is it for the love of the road? I believe. Yeah. Yeah. Um, he's talking about doing another round of these. So they may be available again soon. Uh, we'll see about that if that happens or not. And then of course, the all the wearables, I'm wearing the MacGuffin shirt right now. So I love the MacGuffin shirt. It's a great conversation piece.

And it has the website on the back. So people might come ask, you know, hey, what's that about? And while I'm plugging, let me plug the folks that are here with us. Well, we got docs, we plug doc and the thing, but in the interview, but you can really find everybody at the nights of the storm.com go there. Now there are some updating. I keep saying I'm gonna update this and I haven't. Basically I've gotta remove all of the Rockfin links, right? Because everyone got booted off Rockfin.

But I gotta fix that and then change a couple times. But it's pretty much for the most part updated. They got the schedule here. You can see where to find different people, including Garg Goldsmith, which Garg Goldsmith will be hosting tomorrow and Friday To carry out the rest of the week. So make sure you check him out on Liberty conspiracy He's on 6 p.m. Monday through Friday 6 p.m. Eastern over on rumble

Was it he's not a rockfin no more, but he's on rumble Is he on kick yet tiger? I don't think he is. I Don't think he set that up, but he's on Twitter, Twix, whatever, and Rumble. So, and then we got Tigers Den. Thank you for the report today, Tiger. Go check out the Tigers Den over on Rumble, uh, Twitter, and he is on, it might be angry tigers, Dan, or it might be the anger tigers, Dan, just check it out. It's pretty easy to find again, go back to the night to the storm website. I have it linked there. So it's easy for everybody. And then last but not least, Ashley, tell us about your, I was actually watching this when you came in the studio this morning, I was catching up with an episode. Tell us about your other show that you do. Yeah, thank you so much. I am part of Union of the Unknowns. And that is, it was a spin off of or just a take off on the name of the Union of the unwanted, but we're unknowns. And it started after our love of the prop, the Propaganda Report podcast with Monica Perez and Brad Binkley many years ago. And so we just have a show. Sometimes we do a roundup. Sometimes we have

a guest. Um, we try to cover news stories that are maybe not quite as serious or as, uh, as well known or as well discussed in some other alternative media. And, uh, yeah, so that's what we do. It's fun. And we would love to have you come check us out and, you know, just join us in the chat. Yeah, give a follow folks. It's tough out here. It's tough out here. They suppress us. So but that's all I have. They hate us. They hate they got us buried under the jail. Right, right. Can I say I'd like to say that I appreciate everybody in chat so much for your kindness, your support of one another and of us and your faith and your kindness and just being

here with us and for David and for guard and the union of the unknowns and all of us week after week, we appreciate you so much. I've made some really great friends over the years in the David Knight community. So we're praying for David and family that Travis has a safe trip and enjoys his visit with the in-laws and that Whistler continues to recover from his his tangle with Big Pharma and I'm also Praying for bouncer the dude dog who had a tangle with a critter Yesterday and hoping that he's doing okay, and I want to see some bouncer the dude dog stickers angry tiger So I guess that's it for today and it was just so great to have everybody and thank you so much and continued prayers for all of us.

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