The Dr. Josh Axe Show - Dr. Peter McCullough on mRNA Vaccines, Myocarditis, & Hydroxychloroquine

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

The COVID pandemic changed medicine forever—but not in the way most people think. Behind the headlines and talking points were silenced doctors, ignored data, and warnings that never reached the public. In this episode, Dr. Peter McCullough shares what he saw firsthand—and why he believes we’re only beginning to understand the long-term consequences. Watch The Dr. Josh Axe Show every Monday & Thursday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drjoshaxe?sub_confirmation=1  🎧 Early Access! Our podcast listeners get every episode early, and you can tune in and be a part of our exclusive listeners below →  Spotify Apple Podcast Order my NEW BOOK, The Biblio Diet → https://bit.ly/4oPEP3t Watch my free training on how to naturally balance your blood sugar and reverse your symptoms → DrAxeDiabetesClass.com  Discover practical steps you can take today to start healing your thyroid naturally → DrAxeThyroidClass.com  If you’re ready to start feeling like yourself again and balance your hormones, take my free class → DrAxeHormoneClass.com  Uncover what’s really going on in your body with advanced biomarker testing for hormones, thyroid, and metabolism— plus a 1-hour consultation with a Senior Health Advisor! → MyBloodWork.com  CONNECT WITH DR. JOSH AXE Instagram Facebook TikTok X LinkedIn Website Sign up for my newsletter Ask me a question CONNECT WITH DR. PETER MCCULLOUGH  The Wellness Company: https://www.twc.health/ Podcast: https://www.americaoutloud.news/category/podcasts/the-mccullough-report/ Website: petermcculloughmd.com Wednesday’s Pulse Podcast: https://www.americaoutloud.news/category/podcasts/america-out-loud-pulse/ McCullough Foundation: https://mcculloughfnd.org/ Focal Point Sub Stack: https://substack.com/chat/1119676 DISCLAIMER This content is strictly the opinion of Dr. Josh Axe and is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of medical advice or treatment from a personal physician. All viewers of this content are advised to consult their doctors or qualified health professionals regarding specific health questions. Neither Dr. Axe nor the publisher of this content takes responsibility for possible health consequences of any person or persons reading or following the information in this educational content. All viewers of this content, especially those taking prescription or over-the-counter medications, should consult their physicians before beginning any nutrition, supplement or lifestyle program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I was so frustrated going through COVID because I was working with people and getting them on specific diet and supplements and seeing good results. I know you were seeing incredible results with all that you've done. I just thought, well, there are literally people dying right now because our government, supposed to be the greatest protector of the people, is keeping this information from them. In my mind, I was thinking something this contagious, we're all going to get. It's going to be unavoidable. But, you know, no one came out from the public health agencies and said, listen, get ready, America. We're all going to get it. And we need to avoid hospitalization and death. No one said that. There's multiple papers showing some people who get COVID actually turn HIV positive. So there was something

about the spike protein that was very unnatural. Like, why is it identical to a segment of HIV? Then all the information comes out of Wuhan, China, and the House subcommittee investigations on this, the spike protein was engineered. Engineered. It's not a natural protein. It's engineered. They collaborated and they made an indestructible spike protein. Dr. Fauci, correct me if I'm wrong, in the 1980s, he was very involved with research

around HIV. Yeah. Is there a difference between getting the COVID vaccine and being exposed that way versus getting it naturally? Yes, in two ways. The religion goes like this. Humans are susceptible to infectious diseases inherently. But through the brilliance of science and vaccinology, through the brilliance of mankind, man can improve upon God's creation.

Yeah. Man outdoes God with vaccines, but the vaccines aren't perfect. So for them to work, for this really to work, everyone must take them. Everyone without exception. And if some people are injured or disabled or even die due to the vaccine effort, they should accept it for the great. greater good of humanity. That's vaccine ideology. On today's episode, I've brought on Dr. Peter McCullough. Now, Dr. Peter was a leading voice, medical doctor, for places like Fox News and talking about the truth about what was

happening today in terms of the pandemic, myocarditis, MRNA vaccines, and also what to do about conditions like long COVID. We're going to go through today his McCullough protocol, which is an herbal and a vitamin and supplement protocol, we're going to talk about hydroxychloroquine, we're going to talk about ivermectin, and all the natural ways to bolster your immune system. Dr. Mercola, welcome the show. Thank you so much for having me. Well, I'm really excited to have you on. You know, you were one of the people as we were going through this whole COVID lockdown vaccine debate that I really followed closely. And one of the things that I was so impressed with is how you stood your ground. You were really

committed to discovering the truth and telling the truth despite so much criticism from your peers. And so I'm excited today to talk about what we've learned as we've gone through COVID. I'm so excited to hear more about what you're talking about is the new cocaine and the new tobacco today that people are getting and some of your philosophies around that. And it's going to be a fun conversation. So thanks so much for coming on today. Can't believe I finally made it on your show. And as introduced, I'm Dr. Peter McCullough. I'm in practice as an internist and a cardiologist in Dallas. Texas, but I'm also trained as a research epidemiologist and have been greatly involved in

pandemic response. None of us in the field of health care were prepared at all for a pandemic. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. You know, I remember really early on, and this was like March, April of 2020 when we started having the sort of first discussions about lockdowns. I went on and did a few podcasts, and I got a lot of pushback. Because my reply was, listen, if you have a viral infection. There are some general things that are good for everybody to do. You know, take vitamin D, take zinc, take vitamin C, try elderberry echinacea, do corsetan. Let's do some of these types of things. Do more soups and bone broth, more fruits, vegetables. Get outside, get lots of sunshine. And I was hammered. I actually had a couple media outlets write papers on I was being unscientific. There's no

evidence for what I was saying. And I thought, wow, this is sort of crazy that this is happening. And so, but you probably more than anybody or as much as anybody, I remember watching you in particular, Robert Malone, Marty Maker and a few others get a load of criticism as well. What caused you to stand your ground and continue to tell the truth about what you knew to be true about MRNA vaccines and what was going on? Well, let's go to the infection. What we were told from the very beginning and consistently through the pandemic was that the virus was unassailable. Yeah. It was untreatable.

Do you know CNN never gave an update on practical prevention and treatment? Neither did Fox News. Neither did CBS, NBC, ABC. Never. You turn on your local news stations here in Nashville. They never presented a practical segment about what you could do to prevent the infection or reduce its intensity and severity. Not once, despite actually even products becoming available

through the operation warp speed that we could utilize, and then an entire array of available over-the-counter nutraceuticals and supplements, nasal sprays and gargles, and then prescription drugs. And so when I looked at this as a treating doctor, I said, really? you know, out of the gate, it's already predetermined that this is untreatable. And so I set out early on, I was in some communications with others that were looking at this, like-minded, and I went on one National Institutes of Health kind of all-hands-on-deck call,

and I was impressed by that call. It's actually held by the NIDDK Division of the National Institutes of Health, which I worked with very closely as an academic researcher. And what was being reported was, you know, we're just trying to find out what's going on with this infection. And Harvard and all the major institutions were on the call. They said, listen, when people get in the hospital with COVID, they are so sick. We're seeing the bloodlines clot and patients crash. and I got off that call, and I don't think at that point in time at my institution we had any cases.

And within a week, we had our very first case. So a man had flown in from New York to Dallas, became sick quickly, was hospitalized at my hospital. I was at a major academic medical center, and teams went to see him, including some doctors who were under me, and examined him. He was about my age. and he absolutely crashed. He was dead in a couple days, previously healthy. And I concluded, based on the NIH call in our very first case, I told myself, you know what, the hospital is too late,

that this cannot be the venue for treatment. If there's any hope of getting us through the pandemic, we have to look at hospitalization as a, bad outcome and death as obviously a bad outcome. So the goal was to avoid hospitalization and death. And in my mind, I was thinking something this contagious, we're all going to get. Yeah. It's going to be unavoidable. But, you know, no one came out from the public health agencies and said, listen, get ready, America. We're all going to get it. And we need to avoid hospitalization and death. No one said that.

Trump didn't say that. Biden never said that. Anthony Fauci never said that. We think about this. Instead, the message was the opposite. Wear a mask, you can avoid getting it. Stay in lockdown. You can avoid getting it. Wash your hands. Distance. You can avoid getting it. In fact, if you get it, let's try to study who you came in contact with. So our government had a huge effort on contact tracing. Let's see who you talk to and see who you talked to. Who did you meet with?

Wait a minute. All of that was based on a presupposition that you could avoid getting the illness. If it was understood that we were going to all get the illness and the serologic studies suggest we all did get the illness, that if that was the case, we would not have any lockdowns, no masks, no social distancing. We were all going to get it. The goal was to get through it without hospitalization and death. Yeah, but imagine if they took all that.

I remember, and I remember sitting there looking at the TV screens, and they have this ticker of how many people are dying per minute, you know, like just constantly. And that, you know, just constantly going on the screens and just thinking, wow. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, though. I saw that ticker too. And in fact, I had some patients under my care dying. from the time of death to the time I determined the cause of death on the death certificate

was about six weeks, maybe 12 weeks. How could they instantaneously, minute by minute, have a death count? Yeah. Honestly, to this day, I think is fraudulent. Well, you know, I have a friend who's in the hospital system and they said, yeah, anybody died of anything in some hospitals, every one of them, for the most part, was chalked up to COVID. He said, you know, I had somebody, he's like, I had people die of what was obviously pneumonia. I had people die of other other events and it was chalked up is that, you know, one of the first studies that sort of

really impacted me was looking at the study that came out on comorbidity in how that was so related to COVID deaths. It was in the 90 percentile. Well, this is very important. How deaths were counted ultimately was PCR test positive at any time, death at any time. This is very important. So you could have had a PCR test that was falsely positive in January and died of a heart attack in September. And the National Center for Health Statistics counted that as a COVID death. Oh, wow. Okay. So if they had those two linkers. Now, in 2023, the National Center for Health statistics, and it's still on the website today, examined the codification of 1.2 million COVID deaths in the United States. And what they found is at least half of those cases, there's no mention of

pneumonia. None. Zero. So that 1.2 million COVID deaths, which is a standard talking point in government circles, for sure is half of that. It's 600,000. Now, when there's been adjudication in peer-reviewed studies where doctors look at this and say, did they really die of COVID or did they have COVID and ultimately die of a comorbid complication, which you pointed out, that 50% probably comes down to about 10%. There's one study from Italy that got it down to 3%. So as we sit here today, if I was to testify under oath, I would say probably 120,000 Americans died of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Wow. I mean, that's a big difference in 1.2 million. Right. And so a severe influenza year can be 70,000 deaths. Yeah. Influenza, though, is counted the same way. It's test positive for influenza and death of any type. That's how it's counted.

There's a series of papers that are published each year. the first author is 1040. Notice on this interview, I'm going to quote the author's first name on multiple studies. Note when you watch TV and you watch Anthony Fauci, Peter Hottes, Sanjay Gupta, they quote no studies. Right, ever. In this interview, I will quote dozens of them. But 1040 publishes almost every year a summary of the CDC influenza statistics.

And importantly, about 15% of information. influenza deaths are directly due to influenza. About 85%. So it's the same issue. So the infectious disease mortality is grossly overestimated based on CDC and infectious disease conventions. Dr. McClellan, if you were to go back in time or maybe this happened a year after you were already practicing and seeing these patients with COVID, what is it that you would have them do? Because you said, you know, okay, we need to do something before they get into the hospitals. What are those things in Exact Protocol you would typically have people do now if there's a whole wave of a viral pandemic again? Great question. You know, I, what I've done from the very beginning is

I have taken the completely accountable approach in what I am proposing and what I'm doing in clinical medicine and it's via academic publication. So in August of 2020, in the American Journal of Medicine, I published the McCullough Protocol. American Journal of Medicine, I mean, that's right up there with New England Journal of Medicine and Archives in Internal Medicine. And it was the lead paper, most cited paper in that journal for years. Pretty important. So in August of 2020, America and the world had an organized protocol to treat COVID-19 with the goal of preventing hospitalization and death. Now, it was immediately picked up by the Association of American Physician and Surgeons and became, which is a credentialed, chartered physician organization nationwide.

American doctors tend to be top in their class. And so we had a physician organization by October of 2020 saying, listen, we should treat patients at home. The National Institutes of Health, the CDC and the NIH in the White House and the coronavirus test force never mentioned or cited. this paper or this organization and approach. Never. As if it didn't exist. So what was it? It was refined over time, but the current state of the McCullough Protocol, it's been copyrighted in my name, not patented, but copyrighted for accountability. It's copyrighted to my name. I'm accountable. I'm accountable. It's been credited with saving tens of millions of lives and sparing hundreds of millions of hospitalizations worldwide. This is how important it is.

It's the biggest thing in COVID. Yeah. Way bigger than a vaccine. Way bigger than a mask. Way bigger than a lockdown. It's treating the problem. So we start at the very beginning is people come down with COVID, re-breathing and re-inoculation. And we cited the data on this was a problem.

So the last thing we want to do is have somebody locked down in a bedroom or in a condominium or somewhere where they can't get fresh air. Yeah. So we tell people immediately. immediately get outside and get fresh air and stop rebreathing the virus and reduce that re-inoculation. Step two, nasal sprays and gargles. Very important. Very important. There were dozens of randomized trials, prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials that showed immediately starting nasal sprays and gargles, and virtually everything worked from saline to dilute palvadone iodine to xylitol, colloidal silver.

They all worked. Yeah, wow. So the principle was the virus was setting shop in the nose replicating and just overwhelming the system. If you did nasal sprays up the nose, twice a day for prevention through the pandemic, worked marvelously. And then in acute infection, we can go to every four to six hours, several sprays up the nose, sniff it back, spit it out, gargle.

We're talking basically a 30-second gargle, spit it out, just reducing the viral load. There was even an inpatient trial of doing this in hospitalized patients, and they had improved outcomes. Wow. The hospitals never offered a nasal spray or gargle at the bedside. Never. In fact, the companies began to say, listen, this is a solution. Masks aren't working. We need to use nasal sprays and gargles. So they did the right thing. They did research. And one of the lead companies, the CEO is Nate Jones, and the company is clear.

This is a xylotel. Yeah, yeah. So Nate embarks on a series of trials. and completes them demonstrating reductions in viral load, and what have you, puts it on his website. The Federal Trade Commission sues Nate Jones personally and the Clear Corporation under the FTC COVID misinformation law. And immediately when COVID came out within a few months,

there was a COVID-19 misinformation federal trade commission law. What? How did they know anything was missing? How do you judge? How do you judge information versus misinformation? But they knew within a matter of months that anything could violate anything they thought could violate. So Nate was sued. His company was sued. Millions of dollars hemorrhished out in legal fees. Nate refused to take the data down from his website because he's doing the studies. He's entitled to do that. and after four years in legal wrangling the Federal Trade Commission with the new Trump administration and two FTC officials were released, they wrote Nate and said, we're dropping everything.

Wow. And look at Eric Naputey. Eric Neputy had a nutraceutical and supplement company, but Eric was saying, listen, vitamin D looks pretty solid. You mentioned vitamin D. Every single study of vitamin D was positive. vitamin D higher levels conferred improved survival there was seven prospective studies showing vitamin D was actually preventive it actually reduced the incidence of infection Eric was sued by the Federal Trade Commission and the award was astronomical like you know in the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars Eric's a chiropractor he goes I don't have that money and so there had to be a negotiated settlement the government had to be paid. So this went on and on. So the McCullar Protocol started with fresh air, nasal sprays

and gargles, nutraceuticals and supplements. So for sure, zinc, vitamin C, vitamin D, carcin. There was an over-the-counter antihistamine, anti-inflammatory phomodidine, which is used for GI. It's at huge University of Virginia study. 20,000 people showed that reduced severe disease. That was in the McCullough Protocol. So that started up front. Then we included a choice of antivirals. This is very important. Everyone wanted to focus on the antivirals.

They wanted to skip everything up front, but a choice of antivirals. We said, okay, hydroxychloroquine has some activity. It was about 25% effect size. Ivermectin, when we had enough data, that made into Moncolor Procler. That was bigger. That had about a 50% effect size. And there was a very good trial to quote by Rochter and colleagues. It was published in chest, the best pulmonary journal, where Ivermectin continue through the hospital stay, reduced mortality by 50% compared to those who didn't get it.

I want to pause here. I'd love for you to just educate and walk us through a little bit more. What is hydroxychloricone? How is it used historically? Why is it beneficial? And Ivermectin how it works as well. I think there was an undue focused on the antivirals. I really do.

Because we are in communication with doctors all over the world. I started a communication system on Google groups, and there was a doctor in El Salvador who was treating patients, no hydroxy, no ivrimactin, was using really anti-inflammatories, antihistamines, and doing fine. And then there was a doctor in South Africa, Durbin, South Africa, doing the same thing. So I knew they weren't essential. But yet there was an undue focus on them. Well, hydroxychloroquine has been used for decades as malaria prevention.

and then we used it extensively and still do so in rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus. So it's a wonderful drug. These are generic drugs. And remember, doctors use drugs off their original advertising label. Yeah. We always do. In fact, we pointed to a 2018 FDA guidance on this. I remember being at a debate with the FDA in one of the medical societies.

And we said, should doctors use drugs off advertising labels? And said for sure, whatever drug company gets the first advertising label, which are advertising claims, they can't anticipate in the future what we're going to use drugs for. They can't. You know, you know the drug that has the most off-label clinical uses by far? Well, listen, I'm going to tell you antidepressants are very high, but maybe that's not the high. Oh, no. You would never guess. It's actually Botox.

Botox has... I know numerous, you know, of course, reading headache, migraine headaches. a big one. So Botox has far and away the most off-label uses. But the point is, even I remember at our deliberations with the FDA and the 2018 guidance concur with this, is that for sure doctors should use drugs off their original advertising label when they're fulfilling an unmet need. Obviously, SARS-CoV-2 is an unmet need.

So no company is going to have a pre-authorized, ready-to-go drug indicated to treat SARS-Col. Tofi 2. It's not going to be there. So hydroxychloroquine was the first, and it had some efficacy against SARS-1, SARS-1 virus in that first outbreak. And it has some general antiviral properties that were sufficient. And then a very important paper was published by Didier Raoul in France. And he's the most published microbiologists in the world. And it was given to Trump and said, listen, it looks like it's dropping some viral activity. So Trump came out and had a press conference. Anthony Fauci was there. This was in March. And Trump says, listen, this could be a game changer. And I remember point blank, one of the reporters looked at Fauci and said, listen, if you had a

patient in front of you with acute COVID-19, would you use hydroxychloroquine? And Fauci said, I would, preferably in a research protocol. But sure, that was a reasonable answer. That was in March of 2021. By June of 2020, I'm sorry, it was March of 2020. By June of 2020, the end of 2020, the end of 2020, the FDA said categorically do not use hydroxychloroquine. The FDA also did something very bizarre with hydroxychloroquine. It granted it an emergency use authorization. It was so bizarre. I looked at this. I said, wait a minute. Emergency use authorization is a mechanism for new drug use. It's not full licensure. It's new drug use. But prior to this, it was for the military, like an EUA for the anthraxies. Or something like this. You don't do a EUA.

for a generic drug that we can, you know, use for anything, right? So why did it have an EUA? And then the FDA said, well, it should be restricted for use in the hospital. Well, Henry Ford did a big study of in-hospital use over 1,000 patients, mortality reduction in those who got hydroxychloroquine. I know because I was one of the reviewers on the paper. But by June, papers were coming in, say, wait a minute, it's dangerous. It's dangerous.

There was a paper for Mayo Clinic, I recall. This is dangerous. People can have heart rhythm problems with this. And, you know, the hydroxychloroquine can affect an interval on the EKG called the QTC interval. And it's well known. Doctors understand this. It's rare. It's those who have the congenital QTC prolongation.

There's actually a bigger risk in some African Americans called G6PD deficiency where they can develop a hemolytic anemia. But like any drug. we know the risks and benefits. And we were using hydroxyquarequin. We were having success. But it didn't match the safety and success of Ivermectin. So once we had an update on Ivermectin, by December of 2020, Ivermectin was in the McCullough Protocol.

We had published an update in reviews in cardiovascular medicine. This time, I had 56 authors on that paper. I had basically every major doctor in clinic who was treating COVID-19 to weigh in on what a protocol should be. And this was the Cadillac. We had ivermectin, which is derived from the soil in Japan. It has antiparacetic activities, clearly had antiviral activities, and was safer than acetamepin. I mean, you know, no cardiac concerns whatsoever. There's some minor neurologic side effects that are very rare, but very, very safe product.

And also robust to safety in the overdose situation. People got confused. If they took, you know, double or triple the dose, I know. my mom had COVID and she was in a senior home and we got her the McCuller Protocol. My wife, you know, kind of shuttled it in. Shuttleed it in and we said, Mom, how are you doing? We called her every day where I'm pins and needle. And now she's elderly.

She's had cancer in the past. She's very frail. And I said, Mom, we're trying to coach her through the medicines. And I said, well, that Ivermectin medicine can you grab the bottle and tell me how much more you have left in? She goes, oh, there's nothing left in here. It's like, whoops. So mom, I think on day three just had an ivermectin overdose.

And she's perfectly fine. So the point is it was a very versatile drug. I mentioned the icon study published in chess, 50% mortality reduction. I am here to tell you that every single high-risk individual should have received IVermectin on day one. And for sure, if they didn't get any home treatment, they should have received it in the emergency room and through the hospitalization. There was no reason not to do that. Yet, this is astonishing.

As we are getting success with Ivermectin and McCullough Protocol, the FDA launched a campaign, and so did the American Medical Association. American Medical Association officially announced their campaign on their website. They said, we have a campaign to abolish the use of Ivermectin. I mean, you remember this clip on Joe Rogan where CNN tries to shame him. They change the color of his face. and say, oh, he's taking horse to wormer and just credit him the whole. And Sanjay Gupta comes on.

He actually has Sanjay Gupta in the studio. And he school Sanjay Gupta. The FDA puts out a campaign that it's just a horse dewormer, what have you. This is, why would the FDA and the American Medical Association and the entire medical establishment, emails were sent around at these academic medical centers, do not use Ivermectin. Do not use it. I testified in the... Well, why did they do that?

Why do you think? What would be your conclusion? Well, I mean, my conclusion is there is a, you know, financial gain from somebody if, you know, if more people are doing what? Here's a reality of, I know, marketing, it's scarcity. It's like we're saying this is the only option. Here is your only option. Get this shot or take this pill. and so people don't use anything else.

And so this is the one and only thing you can do, you're going to make more money doing. I mean, that would be one of my conclusions. I've already told you the Federal Trade Commission suppressed nasal sprays and gargles. Yeah. I told you they suppressed vitamin D. Yeah.

The FDA said do not use hydroxychloroquine in Harvard and Mayo Clinical writing papers that it wasn't safe. Yeah. Suddenly it wasn't safe when they used it for decades. Now the FDA and the AMA launching a war on ivermectin and pure Corey, who was in our group of early treatment doctors,

and I told Senator Johnson to invite him to the Senate to testify, and he did so. Great credit to Corey, by the way, not only in Ivermectin but cortical steroids. He published a book, the best title ever. It's called The War on Ivermectin. But this got to be so bad that Robert Aptor, an ER doctor in Arizona, Mary Talley Bowden,

a E&T doctor in Houston, and Paul Merrick, one of the most published critical care doctors in the world, they sued the FDA. They said, you're making false statements regarding Ivermectin. And they prevailed. Wow.

In the end, in the end, the lawyers for the FDA said, okay, we'll take down all our false material on Ivermectin. Our FDA was putting out false information. Then we got to, so we had the antivirals, we had hydroxychloroquine, the Russians and the Japanese were using Favipyrivere.

So Favipyriivir was in the original, protocol, then later on, two years into it, we get Paxlovid, which is a Nurfintrellevier and retonavir, which is a repurposed HIV drug. And then we have Molnapiravir, which is a Merck drug. So we had an array of antivirals to choose from. By November of 2020, we had monoclonal antibodies. The first one came out by Lilly. These were miracle drugs. I gave really, really sick patients monoclonal antibodies and they improved and the studies were stupendous every time they worked every time they worked so we'd have monoclonal antibodies there was a paper that came out in medical economics indicating the u.s government bought enough monoclonal antibodies to treat every single

american yet everywhere you looked around the country there were shortages can't find them can't find nobody had them ron desantis went nuts he set up all these clinics i remember this yes can't get them why wasn't every nursing home stocked with monoclonal antibodies? Why didn't every single sick patient in the ER receive monoclonia antibodies? They didn't. They didn't. Now, the next drug was cortical steroids. So doctors were examining cortical steroids, and there were papers written, do not use cortical

steroids. Steroids could worsen the infection. Well, wait a minute. How do we know? We use steroids for pneumococcal infections. We use steroids for shingles, which is varicelizoster. suddenly we can't use steroids for this infection. It's just taming down an excessive inflammatory response.

So Ron Johnson, give him great credit. Senator of Wisconsin was seeing this. And Pierre Corey was from Wisconsin, was in New York, but it ties to Wisconsin, New Johnson. And Johnson held a hearing on this and said, listen, what are you seen in treating patients? And Corey said steroids are working. People with acute SARS-CoV-2 as we're treating them, steroids are a part of their inpatient care.

they're working. At the time Corey testified in May of 2020, every single society in the world said do not use cortical steroids, the FDA, the CDC, the NIH, the infectious society of America, the EMA in Europe, the TGA in Australia, every single one of them said do not use steroids. Yet they were working. Within six months, every single one of those societies said, use steroids. Okay, so now monoclonal antibodies, we've gone through this suppression of treatment. Now we're down to simple things, Colchicine, which is a unique anti-inflammatory generic drug. It was dozens and dozens of studies, had positive data. And the largest prospective double-blind randomized placebo control trial ever in outpatient COVID was a cold corona trial. it stopped early.

Why is it stopped early? This is the best funded study ever. It was out of Montreal Heart Institute. It's supposed to have 6,000 patients. They end up with 4,000 patients, and still all the data trended towards being a positive study. Why was that stopped? And then we have antibiotics,

doxycycline and xothermyosin, a published study of deaths due to COVID showed probably at least a quarter of the pneumonia deaths to COVID had an untreated bacterial secondary pneumonia. Wow. So antibiotics inappropriately used. Now we're getting pretty deep into the McCullough Protocol.

We're down to antithrombotics. So antithrombotics, the McCullough Protocol was the only protocol that said, listen, blood thinners, and high-risk patients put patients on blood thinners early. Don't wait until a blood clot in the hospital. And then when the Italians did the first autopsy study, And doctors were scared to death of doing autopsy. They were afraid they were going to get the virus.

They found the lungs were filled with blood clots. So it brought up the most interesting thing. There was a hyper focus on the oxygen saturation. Do you know the oxygen saturation meter? Yeah, yeah. And it was the most interesting thing because I was treating COVID patients. And I'd say, wait a minute,

the oxygen saturation is pretty low, but you're not that shorter breath. So there was a dissociation between the oxygen saturation and the work of breathing. It's very, very important. And I said, wait a minute, this is interesting. We don't see that with a consolidative pneumonia or something where the avioli are filled with fluid.

This is different. It must be the capillaries must be plugged with microblood clots, and that's exactly what the Italians found. So that was the key role, and aspirin has a minor effect, but the prescription blood thinner is bigger effect. That was a huge understanding. So what was going on,

was patients would go to the hospital. They're not that short of breath. They'd check in oxygen saturation. No, normal should be 94%. They'd see somebody in the 80s and say, we need to put you on the ventilator. Oh, wow. So people were paralyzed and sedated,

unnecessarily put on the ventilator. They lost all their rights. They got very sick. And many died because of it. And many died because of excessive intubation. So we published papers on this. There were three papers. Jackie Stone being one, Sabine Hazen being the other.

And there was a third paper. And we've summarized that Guclioclus is the first author on the summary of the three papers. Regarding what's called permissive hypoxemia. Presmissive hypoxemia is let the oxygen saturation go down, provided the work of breathing is acceptable and the mentation is fine. Don't intubate them. So I started to have patients. And this was amazing.

I had a doctor in Virginia and her husband who got really sick with COVID. They got the color protocol. Let me tell you, they got everything. They got monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, antibiotics, and the oxygen saturations went down and down and down. And by this time, they knew that the hospital was basically a death sentence. And so, you know what they did? They survived with oxygen saturations in the 60s for a couple weeks.

They'd go down really low when they'd go in the kitchen to get something. I said, listen, how's the worker breathing? They said, well, we're working pretty hard, but, you know, they were pretty fit at baseline. you know, you'll look to me like you're pretty fit. I guarantee you could, your work of breathing would be strong enough where you could manage, with COVID, you could manage an oxygen saturation clearly in the 80s, 70s, and probably 60s for a prolonged period of time. Yeah.

It's called permissive hypoxemia. Do you know to this day the medical, critical care, infectious disease community completely is oblivious to all of this work? Well, you know it's so interesting. This is really, really early on. friend of mine who's an acupuncturist and he and he told me he said you know the re the this virus is very different from others in that most viruses I see affect the respiratory system and he told me this is affecting the blood he said it's causing Chinese medicine they call it blood stasis he said it's

sticking together it's not moving well observation yeah yeah and he said and this is really what I'm saying and so he would have people do things like natokinase he would have people do things like the specific tea more popular in Thailand called Galangal, it's like a relative of ginger and turmeric, and just doing things to move the blood, break the blood up, move, or disperse blood clots and those sort of things. And so, you know, it's interesting how sort of, you know, what you're doing in mainstream medicine and what, you know, these more, you know, natural or even ancient practitioners in the way that they practice sort of, you know, lines up there. But I think that, you know, that's something that I was,

I was so frustrated going through COVID because I was working with people and getting them on specific diet and supplements and seeing good results. I know you were seeing incredible results with all that you've done. I just thought, well, there are literally people dying right now because our government, supposed to be the greatest protector of the people, is keeping this information from them. And it's just, it's sad. You hit it. I held some calls, and I quickly assumed a leadership role because no one was taking the leader. By March, I looked around, I said, surely Harvard's going to have a protocol or Michigan's going to have a protocol. In 2019, I lectured in two divisions at Harvard.

I was an endowed visiting professor. I went to graduate school at UMC, Michigan. I graduated at top of my class at Southwestern in Dallas. I did my residency at the top residency at the time in University of Washington and Seattle. I mean, I was well trained as any physician you'll ever talk to. Yeah. And none of these marquee institutions were showing any leave. leadership on this. I was contacted by a colleague at Harvard. I just visited him when I

lectured there. And he said, you want to be a part of a consortium? I said, well, sure I will. What's it about? It's called stop COVID. I said, terrific. Let's get after it. You guys have all the resources. You got the brain power. What are we going to do? We're going to actually observe. So they were going to observe all these outcomes. It was a big database activity, but there were no interventions. They didn't stop COVID. They didn't try a single intervention. So I was holding calls and I talked to some doctors in Southeast Asia. I said, what are you guys doing for COVID? They said, you know, in our area, you know, it's very similar probably to what doctors did for the Spanish flu.

We're using forms of poultices, aromatic substances. We're just trying to dilate the airways. We are trying to calm people down and get them through this. And we've noticed, particularly in frail elderly patients, that a panic can set in. And then once they begin to panic, it's all over with. Then there's a vicious cycle. So we're keeping them calm. And we're trying to dilate, you know, arterials, capillaries, and the bronchial airways.

And they were using a whole variety of substances. So what I learned through the whole COVID pandemic is there was no specific drug or supplement or treatment that was either necessary nor specific, but it probably took about four to six things in combination to get through the illness. So nothing was essential. It was so interesting. It was clear, though, I was studying who was dying with COVID,

and the characteristic COVID death was someone who was at home. They were told to lock down. They couldn't see their family members. They received zero treatment, zero treatment. They called their doctor. The doctor said, there's no treatment for this. They received zero treatment to the point where they couldn't breathe anymore. They panicked.

They called 911. And it's interesting, there was a paper published in JAMA from the paramedics, about what did people look like when they called 911? They weren't ready for the mechanical ventilator. In fact, they had adequate blood pressure and heart rate. They were just panicking. Once they came into the hospital, it became a death sentence. Well, and we even know, I mean, from a mindset standpoint,

just even the benefits of taking something for the placebo effect versus thinking, well, there's no, there's no option. You know, I want to tell you, I have a, this is my wife's grandfather. He was diagnosed in Arizona, very healthy. Now, he was like, he was early 80s, golfing every day, seemed very, very healthy. And he went to the doctor that diagnosed him with COVID, and he actually felt fine. And here, here was his reaction. He goes, oh, no.

Oh, no. Like, he actually acted like, believe that. he was going to die because of it and he did and lord yeah yeah and this was back in 20 this would have been 20 21 early 2021 and i should just share that to say you know what um i think if he would have just gone to a doctor they said listen you're going to be fine let's take this one thing whatever and and you're going to be okay i think he would have been okay but there was just such of this massive level of just fear and despair was he offered anything no okay no they put him on a ventilator uh eventually and that was it? Well, there you go. I laid out the prototypic death, and I'm so sorry that happened in your

family. I was faced with this with my father. My father had dementia. He was in a nursing home, and he was one of the first to get COVID. It was April of 2020, so we're talking about the Wuhan strain. This was the severe strain. So, oh, your dad's got COVID. They moved into a building, and he was the only one there, so he had lots of, the poor nurses were wearing like hazmat suits at the time. The doctor in charge of the facility, he just left. He was just AWOL. And they said, Dr. McCullough, what do we do? I said, will you take orders from me?

They said, yeah, we will. And this is in my first book, Courage to face COVID-19. So here's my dad. He's got dementia. He had fallen and had a pelvic fractures. Pelvis was broken in three areas. So he has impaired mechanics. He's flat on his back and he has COVID.

So the question on the table is, it's my dad. The government says, do nothing. The official government recommendations are don't even try. And my dad's wishes were I never want to be in the hospital. I never want to die in the hospital, and I'm sure not going on the ventilator. And he had stated that for years. So the question on the table is, do I follow the government and do nothing for my father, of which doctors did nothing for their patients?

Or do I take action? And so what I did is I told that, I said, open up the windows. Let's get some fresh air there. They go, oh, we never do that. We never do that. I said, open the windows. He's going to get cold. Put a sweater on him.

I said, let's begin. Back then, we didn't know about the nasal sprays and gargles, and we didn't know about the steroids. It's very early on. But we started hydroxychloroquine. We started antibiotics as xithromycin. He was on some aspirin, which turned out to be beneficial. And very importantly, he had a pelvic fracture.

I said, put him on lovenox. We put him on a bloodthener, injecting. blood thinner. We did it for 30 days. And in the middle of it, my dad got so sick as blood pressure was going down. They measured his serum sodium. The serum sodium should be rock stable at 140 mil-coffins per liter. You're unbelievably thirsty at about 142 or 143. My dad was 151 on sodium. He was so unbelievably hypertonic. I said, we got to give him an IV. And the poor nurses tribe, they couldn't get an IV. So they actually just put it in the subcutaneous tissue in the abdomen, and they dribbled in IV fluid like you would for a little baby. So my dad got the IV fluid,

and he survived. Wow. Now, interestingly, in order to get out of COVID isolation, they said, well, he has to test negative. You know, my dad tested intermittently positive 17 times. So I learned with my dad, wait a minute, these PCR tests are positive forever after COVID. Yeah. And you know, each time he was tested, he counted as a brand new case of COVID. So do you know that there was a case count problem? There was no control over duplicates. Wow. So the number of cases were grossly exaggerated at any given time because of no control over duplicates.

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institutions got grants. They opened up long COVID clinics. And do you know, not a single discovery. Not a single new test, not a single protocol, not a single. Not a single. new drug or a therapeutic. Nothing for a billion dollars. How could that happen? Because they didn't assess the cause of the problem. Yeah. So the virus is a ball. It has little spines on the surface. The spines are called the spike protein. The cause of long COVID is the spike protein is retained in the human body. That's the cause of long COVID. In not a single one of the Biden administration long COVID programs, did they measure the spike protein? Did they measure it in the bloodstream?

It can be easily measured by an eliza test, nor do they measure antibodies against the spike protein, nor do they assess tissue samples for the spike protein. Yet elsewhere in the world, it became obvious the cause of long COVID is the spike protein, period. Everything else is secondary. Inflammation is secondary. Oxidative stress is secondary. Fatigue is secondary.

People have hypothesized that there's mitochondrial dysfunction. Well, yeah, it's all secondary to the spike protein. I mean, this is extraordinary. So a massive blunder was made in institutional medicine. And what is this spike protein doing in the body? Like when it's staying in there and not leaving, and why isn't it leaving? Do we know? Influenza has a spike protein on it.

It's called hemaglutinase. So influenza's got some spikes on. Hemogloatase and neuramidase. You get the flu. You clear. that stuff out. Yeah. The human enzymes can break down various proteins.

So what is the spike protein? It's 1,200 amino acids. It's got about 12, got constellation side chains. Interestingly, and very spooky, the spike protein has 120 amino acid sequence that's identical to a glyco protein on HIV. Identical. Identical. There's multiple papers showing some people who get COVID.

actually turn HIV positive. It wasn't that common, but that segment of the spike protein must have been exposed to the immune system. Then the Australians broke this open, and they did a randomized trial of a COVID vaccine exposing that part of the spike protein to subjects in Australia. They all turned HIV positive. All of them. Wow. They didn't have... I've never heard that. I mean, I guess this is... Yes. So you could you can type it in. Australia. in vaccine trial turns every subject HIV positive. There it is. So there was something about the spike protein that was very unnatural. Like why is it identical to a segment of HIV? Then all the information comes out of Wuhan, China. And the House subcommittee investigations on this,

the spike protein was engineered. It's not a natural protein. It's engineered. Dr. Ralph Barric at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Anthony Fauci, Peter Dasick at the EcoHealth Alliance, Xingling Lee and Wuhan. They collaborated and they made an indestructible spike protein. Now, Dr. Fauci, correct me if I'm wrong, in the 1980s, he was very involved with research around HIV. Yeah. Listen, he was the director of the National Imminology Inelection Infectious Disease Institute. Now, you know, I was practicing at that time I was a resident and then practicing. I don't think Fauci directed much in terms of the care of HIV. We, you know, we were coming up with our own approaches on how to deal with HIV.

But, you know, he was thought to be certainly in a position where he was contributing, the NIH was contributing to new knowledge at HIV. But it turns out Fauci was clearly a co-conspirator in the creation of SARS-CoV2 with this man-man. made spike protein. And in Barracks papers in 2015 in Nature of Medicine and 2016, precedes the National Academy of Science, note I'm quoting them precisely, that he declares that they have created a chimeric that is a man-made mixture of a bat and a human coronavirus, and he called it a SARS-like Wuhan Institute of Virology 1 co-virus. That's in the title, and it says it's poised for human emergence in the title. And so they created a spike protein that allowed the

virus to invade human pulmonary epithelial cells and invade the body. And it cannot be broken down. There are no known enzymes in the human body that break down the spike protein. And so the critical discovery was in 2021, Dr. Tanakawa in Japan, where they were working on trying to come up with something that can prevent COVID, and he found that natokines, a natural enzyme, dissolves the spike protein in intact cells and cell lysate models. Wow. And it doesn't injure cells. It's rapidly taken in cells, say, hallelujah.

And then several months after that, another publication of another natural enzyme, bromalin or family of enzymes derived from pineapple, also dissolves the spike protein, but at different cleavage sites. The spike protein had to be the treatment target. for long COVID and vaccine injury syndromes. Yeah. base, that it's the base to get rid of the spike protein. And then you add other things on top. So sure, do I use nicotine for small fiber neurombole? What are your top five if you're like,

okay, there are five things and maybe this is all? And I know you've created products and ingredients together, but what do you think are the five in ranking order most impactful things people can take for long COVID? Well, for sure. So I'm one of the founding members in the chief scientific officer of the wellness company. The wellness company has the lead product, which is called called the Ultimates by Detox, and it's very well-named. And it's the combination of natokinase in high doses, bromelin and curcumin. And the natokinase and bromelin in preclinical studies, and now it's our clinical observation. People are getting better, and we're seeing every measure of spike protein go down clinically. Those are absolutely critical. Now, curcumin's

interesting. It doesn't get rid of the spike protein, but that's even gone to human randomized trials. blocks inflammation from the spike protein, almost directly. So nato-canase, bromine, curcumin, and then there's many ingredients in the ultimate spike detox. Black sativa, a variety of other kind of botanical extracts, about four of them. And then there's some necessary things for absorption. So curcumin needs peppermine or black pepper acid absorption. Selenium at a low dose works and helps absorption.

So ultimate spite detox kind of for sure needed. You can look at it, buy the separate ingredients, and you know, you could buy six different bottles and accomplish the same thing. But it's just needed. Yeah. And it was copyrighted in my name, but not patented intentionally because too many people need it. Yeah. And so if you go on Amazon right now, you type in Spike Detox. You'll see my concept everywhere.

Like that. I bet. Everywhere all over. So that's absolutely needed. So beyond the ultimate Spy Detox, what's the next most important drug? and I would say because this is a very serious outcome that happens, particularly in the vaccine injured, and that's cardiac arrest. What's needed is a drug that's mandatory in the guidelines for heart inflammation and inflammation

around the heart, and that's colchisine. Mandatory. It's not optional. So every person who's had any type of chest symptoms at all in long COVID or in vaccine injury has to be on colchisein, mandatory. And so this is it in the guidelines in your brain. pain guidelines to 2016. I can't tell you how many patients with long COVID and vaccine injury. The doctors have never prescribed cultures. Well, and how does this relate to myocarditis?

Because one of the things I know is mortality rates from acute myrocarditis and heart failure were declining. And then we saw this increase on this, you know, we have a graphic here we're going to show here as well. Good observation. That's really, you know, just. Right. Well, there's, there's somewhat of a false narrative out there where the American College of Cardiology, has said, wait a lot more myocarditis from the infection than there is from the vaccine. It's like, well, how do they determine that? Well, I can tell you, on people who die with COVID-19, no vaccine, the virus is not found in the human heart. It's not found in the heart. What was going on is when people are hospitalized with COVID, a whole bunch of blood tests are done, and one of them is called

troponin. And the tropon, which is elevated in about a third of sick people in the hospital anyway, no matter what form of pneumonia, that was triggering the ICD codes. And when they do a big data poll, say, well, they must have myocarditis. So that whole literature is a false literature that said, oh, they have myocarditis due to the virus. There wasn't a single adjudicated case, not a single MRI confirmed case of myocarditis with the virus alone. And so what was happening in 2020, we were so scared, all the universities had big myocarditis screening programs. because we know myocarditis, if it happens, if athletes go on the field, the surge of adrenaline can trigger cardiac arrest. So the Big Ten, and I went to a Big Ten school at Michigan, they had a huge screening program.

They screened thousands and thousands of athletes who got COVID. And in 2020, about 20% of athletes got COVID. And they look for myocarditis. In thousands of that, they got MRIs, EKGs, echoes, troponins. They came up with, they believe, 36 possible cases. them confirmed, no hospitalizations, no deaths, none. And that paper was posed by Daniels and colleagues in JAMA. So after 2020, all the colleges and athletic programs dropped all the concern regarding myocarditis due to the infection, if this tells you anything. Okay. Then we bring in the vaccines.

And there was a slide that was an internal meeting at the NIH, CDC, and FDA in October of 2020, before the vaccines are released. It says anticipated side effects, myocarditis, anticipated. They knew what was going to happen because the messenger RNA targets the heart. So one of my questions for you is looking at all this data, working with all these patients, is there a difference? When you're talking about MRI and then I also want to hear about spike protein in relation to this, is there a difference between getting the COVID vaccine?

and being exposed that way versus getting it naturally. Yes, in two ways. With the infection, Bruce Patterson formed a company over on this, in cell DX, is clearly demonstrated with the infection. Just the tip of the spike protein gets in the body. It's called the S1 segment. And the body actually takes it inside cells. There's very little free-floating S-1 segment,

but it's everywhere with the infection. Deeper infections, serious hospitalized infections, Untreated patients more S1 segment as a Indirect proxy of the spike protein exposure we measure antibodies against the spike protein. It's very important There's a paper Barham and colleagues who studied this Those who just had the infection no vaccine and they have some symptoms the average Antibody tighter in what's called binding units per ML of a infection no vaccine that numbers round about 2000 Okay. Every study under the sun shows if you're under a thousand on the spike antibody levels,

great prognosis. Probably prior spike exposure, you're perfectly fine. Normal is less than 0.8. And in my practice, I've tested thousands of patients. I have maybe three people less than 0.8 that have not been touched by either the virus of a vaccine. The average person who takes the vaccine on that same test, 11,000. So, and then there's a paper by bro. Rognah and colleagues that actually did look for spike protein in the blood using mass spec and found. In Pfizer and Moderna, there is full-length spike protein, the S-1 and the S2 segment, and it trimorizes in threes. It's essentially indestructible. Pfizer and Moderna inserted two proline insertions to keep the spike protein open and indestructible,

and they replaced, in the messenger RNA, they replaced every natural urinary. Urisole, messenger RNA should be broken down in a mirror of minutes or hours. They replaced every uracil with a synthetic nucleoside analog called pseudoridine. The Nobel Prize was won by Carico and Weisman for the discovery of pseudo-uridination. They made Pfizer and Moderna, Messerine RNA itself indestructible, and it's producing a spike protein that if we do nothing about this, stays in the body conceivably forever. Wow. I had an uncle who We encouraged not to do this, but he did. He was working at the University of Maryland

and ended up getting the booster, the second one, and then three weeks later was just running a train. He was 60 years old. Very fit. Very fit. And had a major cardiac event. And it was three weeks later. I mean, it was, you know, and it's so hard because there are, you know, we see this in medicine today, whether it be everything from autism to long COVID to a number of things of the science saying, well, we don't know. There's no cause. We don't want, but almost like we don't want to look in the first place. And then you have all of these people that have experienced things with their family members

coming forth saying, listen, something's that we're not right here. Something's wrong. We saw this sort of correlation. For you, what do you think the right path is medically when you have a large group of people saying, I think there's an issue here. And what has been your been experienced? I almost don't know what I'm at. I kind of know what I'm asking, but my point is, I'd love to get your thoughts on that

because I think that mainstream medicine so often today just turns a blind eye completely looks away from what people are saying and experiences. We have to talk about things. What happened during COVID is we were banned from meetings. All the medical meetings stopped. I was at a major university medical center that we got a memo saying, listen, you can't have more than 10 people in a room. We stopped having grand rounds.

I mean, I haven't seen, since the onset of COVID, I haven't seen some of my colleagues since that time. It's five years later. We don't talk anymore. We have to talk through this. And what we've seen, what you're talking about is called gaslighting. Gaslighting. That is, people say, listen, I took the shots.

I developed a blood clot. It was just, you know, it was fine before this. and the doctors will say, we don't know what caused that, but it's not the vaccine. Right. Wait, wait a minute, if you don't know what causes it, how do you know it's not the vaccine?

So the worst vignette that I'm aware of is my co-author of my book, my two books, John Leake, is in Dallas. He's considered the world's greatest historian, and he had a girlfriend. And she, years ago, and she lived on the Channel Islands of the UK. So she takes these shots,

And then she notices the redness in her arm and her lymph nodes start to swell, and they get more swollen and more swollen. It's clearly an acute kind of lymphoblastic effect or lymphopilferative effect of the vaccine is growing. And she goes, I'm really getting scared. So they airlifted her from the Channel Islands into London. And she's at one of the major hospitals. And she's seeing all these doctors and they're taking biopsies and they're coming in and making proclamations. I said, listen, we've never seen this before. It's never happened before in our experience, but we know one thing.

It's not due to the vaccine. She was, I just took it. I was fine before this. But the doctors are convinced it's not the vaccine. This thing continues to grow. It crushes her carotid artery. She has a stroke, and now she's permanently disabled. Oh, wow.

No. So this is the problem when it comes to vaccines. My second book is called Vaccines Mythology, Ideology. in reality. Vaccines throughout three centuries have essentially become a religion in medicine. And this is like what we were talking about earlier. You had this whole thing with, you know, where cocaine's okay, tobacco's okay. What about that? Well, how can this be? Well, in our book, we outlined this 300 year history of, for infectious diseases, it had to do with the fact that there was tremendous fear of infectious diseases. And boy, did we see that with COVID? Did you see people

living in bubbles and the fear, the human fear of infectious diseases as an archetypal fear, I don't think any of us estimated it to be what it is. So there's this archetypal fear of infectious diseases, bold claims made by vaccine developers, oh, just take a shot and you're safe and you'll get your freedoms back and what have you. And so lots of bold unsupported claims, tremendous money and power every time it went back to smallpox, all the way through, you know, the campaigns for polio and measles and et cetera. This has been going on a long time.

It's essentially a religion. It's a religion. And believe it or not, it's such a strong religion that if anybody questions a vaccine or shows any hesitancy to get one, they're considered to have a mental disease called vaccine hesitancy. And in the peer-viewed literature, there's 20 different psychomemenesies. instruments to assess vaccine hesitancy. Like you've got a mental problem.

You're not accepting a vaccine. Wow. So in our CDC, by the way, the World Health Organization says one of the single greatest threats to public health is vaccine hesitancy. That's how important I think it is. So I was asked to lecture at Chautauqua, which is one of the most, you know, prized lecturing venues that any public figure could have. I mean, the Kennedys and the Roosevelt's and so many people have lectured to Chicago.

It's the heart of American liberalism. In fact, you may have recalled Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage at Chautauqua. It's in Western New York a few years ago. So I was asked to lecture of Chautauqua. And I thought about this. I said, boy, I'm going to really lower the boom on these vaccines. You know, I'm going to present the data as they exist. But I said, I have to do it in some context of understanding

of how could the medical community be completely wrong on an issue, participate in something harmful themselves, and how could this go on to their patients in the public? Are there any examples? So the first example I gave was called the first great cocaine epidemic from 1860 to about 1920. virtually every drug company made their first products were cocaine products, Merck and Warner-Lamber and Pfizer and all of them. They were derivatives of cocaine. That it was in every elixir.

Halstead, the father of modern surgery at Johns Hopkins, became a brutal cocaine addict. Sigmund Freud was a cocaine addict. Doctors were self-experimenting. They were publishing on the wonders of cocaine in the journals. It was in Coca-Cola. It was in Kianti wine. It was sold in drugstores all over. The entire country got hooked on cocaine, and the lead addicts were doctors and nurses.

They're the lead addicts. It was so bad that Woodrow Wilson, 1913, said, listen, I'm taking cocaine away. And Coca-Cola voluntarily pulled it out. Pembroke wines took it out of Keanti wines. The doctors would not give this up. It was horrible. And I looked in JAMA, the lead medical journal at the time, with hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts on the benefits of cocaine, there was one paper of concern. One.

One. Wow. It was an Irish doctor. Okay. Finally, there was the dangerous narcotic acts and others. The law had to take it away from the doctors. The doctors could not police themselves. And the nurses, too.

We say doctors and nurses are all together. First example, they caused great harm, they caused addiction, undoubtedly they caused death to themselves, their patients and the public at large. The medical community did this for 60 years. Next segment of time, what I called in my lecture, smoke fest. Smoke fest. You get to about 1920, virtually every doctor, nurse, and anybody with any money in this country smoked. I remember my grandmother and her sharing with me this, her doctor, prescribed recommended she smoked for weight loss.

Yeah. So this was, yeah. Well, RGR Reynolds, Philip Morris, an American Tobacco Company, they all had physician marketing campaigns. Doctors' offices were out fitted with cigarettes. They handed out cigarettes to their patients. The doctors proclaimed they were safe, that they had calming effects, that this brand had less throat irritation than that brand. And this went on and on and on and on. In 1949, Sir Austin Bradford Hill, an epidemiologist in England, and Richard Dahl, start making their observations.

They do a cross-sectional study. They go, listen, I think smoking is causing lung cancer. They present their data to the Medical Research Council. No, no, smoking could not be related to lung cancer. The black smoke going into the lungs couldn't be related to the blackened tumors coming out of the lungs. No. Do more research. So they do the British physician smoking study.

They do another three years convincingly. The conclusions of that study, by the way, is at least half of the deaths were smoking-related among physicians. They present the data. No, it can't be the case. Austin Bradford Hill gets tuberculosis. He kind of fades away. He gets sick. But Dahl persists.

He is smeared. He's discredited. He's debunked. The tobacco companies go after him. No, he's not a credible doctor anymore. What have you? Okay. The United States, it keeps rolling. No, there's no concerns. None of the presidents, none of the Surgeon General, the NIH shows no concern over this. 1964, Luther Terry,

Surgeon General, produces the Surgeon General report on smoking. Smoking causes lung cancer and all kinds of harms. He calls all the Chiefs of Medicine to Washington. So, listen, I've got a report, the doctors are all smoking, they show up, all the guys from Harvard, what have you. He's like, got bad news for you. Smoking is harmful. They reject it. They reject the Surgeons General Report. It's not until 1978 before the American Medical Association comes out with their first pamphlet, the harms of smoking. Not until the 1990s do we have the tobacco settlement. So now we've got a 60-year period of time with cocaine, clearly bad. The doctors were on the wrong side of history. They don't say they're sorry.

There's never any historical reconciliation. The same thing with smoking. The doctors never go back and say they're sorry or there's never papers written about how we were wrong on smoking. Now enter vaccines. The vaccines have amplified, amplified, amplified, amplified. Over three centuries, we get to 1986 and we have the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act. There's so many kids with problems after the diphtheriotinus pertussis vaccines

and measles and mumps and rubella vaccines. that parents are up in arms, the vaccine companies basically go to the Reagan administration and HHS and say, listen, if we don't get some liability protection, we're not going to produce our products. And so HHS writes, in Congress, writes the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act and said, listen, the vaccine companies cannot be sued directly. Wow. We will have our own injury compensation program for those harmed by the vaccine.

and in the 1986 legislation, it says vaccines have unavoidable harms. It says unavoidable harms. If we mass vaccinate the country, some people are going to be harmed. And what this is about is a religion. The religion, and we outline this in our book, which is a New York Times bestseller, the religion goes like this. Humans are susceptible to infectious diseases inherently, inherently. but through the brilliance of science and vaccinology, through the brilliance of mankind,

man can improve upon God's creation. Man outdoes God with vaccines, but the vaccines aren't perfect. So for them to work, for this really to work, everyone must take them, everyone, without exception. And if some people are injured or disabled or even die due to the vaccine effort, they should accept it for the greater good of humanity. That's vaccine ideology. It's in the minds of people. So you talk to people about vaccines and say, listen, I'm concerned about large numbers of

people dying with the COVID-19 vaccines. Well, they say, listen, a lot more died with COVID. Oh, we can trade lives. So someone dying with COVID is kind of the same as someone dying with the vaccine. Wait a minute. Someone who gets COVID is deep into COVID with a lot of variables. You pointed out comorbidities and other things. Someone who takes a COVID vaccine is perfectly healthy.

Yeah, that's right. No one should take a shot. No one who's perfectly healthy should take a preventive shot and lose their life. Yeah. In your world, no one should take a preventive supplement and lose their life. Right. Should that be okay? No.

And so this has basically amplified now to such a crucible. We're at the same point as with cocaine and smoking. We're at a crucible now where Rasmussen, which does valid population-based surveys, has done several surveys. one, indicating 56% of Americans believe the COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for large losses of life. Wow. 56. And then they've just done one among those who took the vaccine. And of those who took the COVID-19 vaccine, 10% said, I have a serious medical problem due to this vaccine.

That's what the public believes. I mean, that's incredibly high. incredibly. Oh yeah. I mean, I can tell you, a side effect that was 1% would be high. Can you imagine 10%? And so the medical literature has 4,000 peer-reviewed papers. I've published a lot

of those. I mean, the number of people with long COVID alone is just, you know, is just crazy. Long COVID was bad enough as it was. In 2020, it clearly wasn't due to the vaccine. Those cases are kind of over with. Now we've got this blend, and in some countries 95% of people took the shots.

In Australia, for instance, virtually everyone took the shots. Then they got COVID. So they have a baseline spike protein load in the body. Then they get the infection. So it obviously must be a blend of the infection in the vaccine because they both load the body with spike protein. So an important paper from Dyxner and colleagues published in Germany, 42,000 Germans, they concluded 70% of all long COVID is really due to the vaccine. So it's a vaccine injury syndrome. And so in our papers, we call it a post-acute sequelae, whether you have the infection or the vaccine.

But people are walking around the spike protein, and if they don't undergo some form of spike detoxification, the lead is nanoconase in bromlin, they literally don't get rid of it. Are you interested in functional nutrition tips to burn fat, reduce inflammation, improve your brain and energy levels, and heal naturally? Then I want to encourage you to listen to my friend, Dr. Dave Jocker's podcast, the Functional Nutrition Podcast. podcast. This podcast is designed to help you with easy, actionable steps to improve your nutrition and lifestyle, understand your lab work, and address the root cause factors that may be driving up inflammation in your body. Now, I've been friends with Dr. David Jockers for 20 years, and he's truly a world expert in functional nutrition, cellular healing, and so much more. If you want to learn the best nutrition and natural healing tips, tune into the Dr. Jocker's

functional nutrition podcast on Apple, iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you. you can listen to podcasts worldwide. So you may ask the question, what else helps the body get rid of spike protein? Yeah. And importantly, what helps the body get rid of messenger RNA if it's indestructible? In my view, there's two non-medicinal, non-supplement things that do work. One is sweating. Very important.

Hannah and colleagues demonstrated messenger RNA is in breast milk. She did two studies on this. This is horrible. You know, women who took the vaccine are breastfeeding their babies, and the messenger RNA is coming right out of the milk into the baby. But this is an important lead. Breast milk is modified sweat. So the messenger RNA must come out in sweat.

It must. So sweating, very important. And in my clinical experience, I have patients, listen, I said, go sweat, go workout and sweat. Go in a sauna's and sweat like a pig. And I think that's the reason why, after the initial wave of sudden deaths and the athletes, which occurred. I don't know if you saw these reels in Europe, but the athletes going down with cardiac arrest down the field.

That's over with now. But there was a paper published by Polycretus and myself clearly showing that was a vaccine effect. After that, the athletes seemed to be fine. There was only one NFL player that went down, and that was DeMar Hamlin. Yeah. And Tucker Carlson had me on,

and I said, listen, I need to know if he took the vaccine. Myself and another cardiologist, Dr. Gucund, we wrote the Buffalo Bills doctors, and we said, listen, we looked at this. He said, cardiac arrest. It's not because he tackled somebody hard. Get him on McCullough Protocol, Spike Detox, and Colchicine, and he probably doesn't need an ICD if his ventricles okay.

And that's been my experience now. So people don't need defibrillators. Now, another vaccine cardiac arrest was Uwi Chutu, a player for USC. They had two vaccine cardiac arrest. They had Brony James and this guy. He got an ICD, which I think was unnecessary. And then the clincher was Pilot Snow. I don't know if you heard the story of Pilot Snow,

But he landed in American Airlines a flight about six weeks after he took a COVID vaccine. People get off the plane. He has a cardiac arrest in the jetway. And there's a story called the miracle of pilot snow, which is really a miracle that the poor stewardesses are scrambling. And he's out. I talked to snow. He said, I was out. He goes, I literally was saying goodbye to people.

And I was, that's it. It was lights out. The miracle of pilot snow is one of the stewardesses called 911. And there's paramedic units, two of them circulating at DFW. The miracle was the unit happened to be at the gate next door, helping some lady with the medicines. So they ran over, and even being that close, it still took six defibrillations to get snow back.

But they got him back. He neurologically fine. He was in Dallas hospital. He pulls up his hospital gun where they fried him with the defibrillator pads, and he does a video. He goes, this is what the vaccine did to me. He, I mean, he came out hard. And he got a defibrillator,

and I had a chance to meet him and examine him, and I asked him an important question. But I'm a color protocol detoxification and colchicine, and I asked him. I said, is your defibrillator gone off? No. And so typically when you have a cardiac arrest from a mycardial infarction or cardiomyopathy,

the chances of the defibrillator going off within a few years can be as high as 50% or 25%. But there hasn't been any repeat arrests. All these cardiac arrests that were saved they haven't had a repeat arrest. So I think actually this wave, people aren't taking the shots anymore. So I think the wave of the cardiac arrests is now essentially over. And we're concerned about a problem called subclinical myopacarditis.

That is, they weren't acutely sick to begin with. They didn't have an immediate cardiac arrest. And now the spike protein is just built up in them. And so occasionally we'll see cardiac arrest. I think the athletes have fared okay because of sweating and getting it out. And the other thing, by the way, is universal. Every study done on this is universally positive, and that's hyperbaric oxygen. And it may be going in a hyperbaric chamber, getting 100% oxygen at higher pressures,

it may actually denature the spike protein and enable it to be cleared from the body. Wow. Wow, that's amazing. I'm a huge fan of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. I had a spinal infection and ended up getting in one almost every day for three months in a heart chamber and was incredible. How did you get it? Spinal tap? No, I actually got it from a stem cell injection in my disc. Oh, no.

Yeah, it was like a one in, I looked this up on, you know, one in like half a million chance. I mean, it was incredibly rare. But, yeah, but I read several studies on dyskitis on osteomyelitis and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. And it was from what I just found by far the most effective thing to. I'm not an expert on hyperbaric now. I refer to Al Johnson in Dallas, who is an expert and he runs a wonderful center. Very positive data on hyperbaric on wound healing. So it's indicative for diabetic foot ulcers, what have you.

Neurocognitive. So he sees patients, all the athletes have had concussions. Yeah. And examines them before and after. Long COVID and vaccine injury, universally positive. I mean, this is very exciting. The reason why I'm excited about it is because we're trying the best we can with oral supplements and with prescription drugs.

Yeah. But we can only go so far. But let me round up the conversation. besides McClellar Protocol, base spike protein detoxification, for any cardiac or chest symptoms, colchising mandatory for a year, if there are any cranial facial, syndromes, loss of taste and smell, or hearing, skin rashes, persistent pulmonary findings, I am suspicious of what's called a SARS-CoV2 reservoir. That is, the virus is still alive in the body replicating. Several studies have shown this in those circumstances.

their patients, in my view, need prolonged Ivermectin. They go on full-dose ibermectin for 90 days. Patients with small-fiber neuropathy, brain fog, a better term is loss of mental clarity. One study from Switzerland, and a lot of clinical experience suggests nicotine, giving a nicotine patch 7 milligrams, not full dose 21, but 7, you're not doing for about 90 days, has a role. Patients who are ANA-positive, arthritis symptoms, signs of autoimmunity, hydroxychloroquine. Those are the go-to drugs. People have tried plasma exchange, IVIG, stem cells, low-dose naltrexone.

I've tried them all too. I don't think they work. Yeah. Boy, complications. I've had patients go for stem cells, get a blood clot right in the same arm as a stem cell. It just... Yeah, it doesn't make sense doing stem cell for that. I mean, you know, I think, you know, based on...

Obviously, there's a level of personalization. I think one of the things that happens often in both natural medicine and mainstream medicine is there's so much of a cookie cutter approach. People like, everybody be able to get on keto or carnivore. Everybody should be vegan. Everybody should take metformin. Everybody should take a statin drug versus there needs to be a level of personalization for everybody. Can we talk about just a few things on diet?

I know you're a greater diet expert than I am. But for long COVID and vaccine injury syndromes, these are my observations. Yeah. This is why I tell patients. no alcohol yep none alcohol and spike protein

don't go together the spike protein is in the human heart it causes heart failure it causes cardiac arrest alcohol is a cardiac toxin to the heart muscle yeah

it's got to go I totally agree I tell people no alcohol none zero and the heart's not going to get better this doesn't end it was better the second thing

for both acute COVID and long COVID in my first book, I credit Yvette Lazano in Dallas, who's one of the first to study this, and lots of publications on this. We don't want to feed the spike protein-related inflammation, whether it's SARS-CoV-2 or just a vaccine, with sugar and starch.

It's just, I tell people, the worst thing to do is eat a cinnabund or to eat a donut, or to eat a donut, you have you. You know, a diet like this is going to worsen the long COVID syndrome Yvette was literally, you know, there was such a tight relationship between fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1C and outcomes in these pandemic syndromes that were really tight on. I tell people, I said, listen, your bread eating days are done. Yeah.

And we've got to really stay away from those. Now, and people say, well, should I go all the way to a ketogenic diet? Now, in my practice, I do have one patient with a cardiac arrest. a ketogenic diet in the setting. Yeah, there are certain cases. It's just, mm-hmm. So this is my brief dietary advice. In the pandemic and in general,

thinking that for diet, we have many, many goals for diet. So coming out of the pandemic, everything's amplified. But even before, you and I are going to pass away at some point in time. Your chances and my chances in general

of dying of heart disease is about a 40% fraction. cancer is about a 40% fraction and death from other causes is an hour 20% fraction. So if you're going to orient diet, you'd want to handle everything. So you'd want the diet to be kind of, you know, cardiac preventive but also cancer preventive. And you clearly don't want to contribute to diabetes and sleep apnea. You want to be nice and thin and handsome as you are the rest of your life and what have you. So you want to accomplish a ton of goals with diet.

So you want it to be anti-inflammatory and you want it to be anti-allergic and you want it to do all those things. So considering the full breath of what you're trying to occur in diet, and that diet is both healthy choices, which I think is a reasonable fraction of what we're doing, and portion control, both. Yeah, yeah. Both. So healthy choices, portion control. And then for people trying to maintain weight or lose weight, you have diet, which I think is about 80% of. of the weight equation and then you have exercise. Yeah.

Which is about 20% of the weight equation. So you have that to consider. Having thought about all this with tight portion control and allowing hunger, and it's very important for people to all reconnect with their hunger. I have obese patients who

have told me, I said, once the last time you were hungry, oh, probably years ago. They're never hungry. Yeah. Like right now I haven't had anything today because I was hustling here to see you in Nashville. Yeah. I'm hungry.

That's a natural. sensation. Yeah. So we should allow hunger and with good portion control, but the healthy choices, I would say, this is what the human body needs in my view. They need high quality sources of protein. Yeah. In this order, fish, beans, nuts, egg whites, non-fat dairy, occasional chicken and beef. I personally have pork out of the equation. Yeah, I don't recommend pork at all. The genetic vaccine has been used since 2017. Yeah. Okay, so it's a pyramid. Fish, beans, nuts, egg whites, not fat dairy, and occasional chicken beef, occasional. And then fresh food and vegetables, unlimited, in my view.

So that means there's three things to get rid of in the diet, the three S's. Sugars, starches, that means nothing made out of flour, no rice, no potatoes. You don't need them. Everybody wants to negotiate starch. Everybody does. Say, doctor, can I have this? Can I lose that? Starch, by the way, is 60% of calories in the American diet.

So if you get rid of starch, immediately there's weight loss. Every single person, whoever's been super buff, I said, boy, those are, you've got some great abs there. Do you eat lots of donuts? Never. Yeah. Never. Okay. And then the last S is saturated fat.

Now, here's the rub with the keto carnivores. They're said, I got to eat a lot of saturated fat. I said, you know, I just don't see it. You know what's interesting? So there's a debate, there's debate within the mainstream nutrition community, more of the alternative nutrition community. And I'll share this from more of a Chinese medicine perspective. Generally, again, I am a big proponent of a personalized diet. I think a lot of your rules are pretty darn close to what I'd recommend. A lot of fiber, a good amount of protein, a lot of healthy fatty acids from olive oil and wild-caught salmon and walnuts.

And I mean, that's a pretty great diet there. And I do think that some people who, you know, genetically have a much lower risk of a heart issue, they may tolerate butter, they may tolerate some tallow, the saturated fats more than others. But I do think generally speaking, I've seen enough evidence statistically of even when you're comparing seed oils to certain types of saturated fats. fat that some and by the way the seed oils people are using that term just a bad term bad because it's like are you talking about cold pressed flax oil or are you talking about highly processed trans fats yeah yeah a very very different polyunsaturated palm kernel oil or so yeah

I mean you know what I think are the healthiest fats are fruit oils which is going to be olives or fruits okay good um you've got avocado that's technically a fruit yeah and now now this one's debatable, and I do think it's a little bit of a different type of a saturated fat when you look at the mechanism of digestion, and it's coconut oil, because it's predominantly medium chain fatty acids, and it's very different than... Listen, you don't drink this stuff. I think this whole idea, I think this is a giant distraction on the oil, so you don't drink them, okay? Well, so, I mean...

Yeah, oils in general, that is very calorie-dense, to your point. But you don't take huge quantities of them. But what I tell people is that, listen, this idea is saturated fat, and I use this, I use this example. What do I do? What do I do? I try to keep my saturated fat less than 10 grams a day. Less than 10 grams a day. Okay. Now, if I had a water burger and fries in Texas, we got water burger, that's 60 grams of saturated fat. 60. Yeah. 60. If I went and had cheesecake factory cheesecake, which is a quarter of the cheesecake, that can be 100 grams of saturated fat. Now, listen, if I had corn in the cob, do I put some butter on it? Sure, I don't sweat it.

Sure. If I'm going on my wife's anniversary and we go to a steakhouse and we have six-ounce steak, I don't sweat that. Yeah. But I'm not going to eat steak morning, noon, and night and eat sticks of butter and try to throw myself in ketosis and get all sweaty and nervous and all of this. And all of this and what have you. But yet, I've had my show, I bring on vegans and all these others and I bring on keto carnivores. And the keto carnivores are interesting. They just, before you know it, they go, you're rock.

You're wrong. That's what ease was wrong. And no, cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease. They just start going nuts. And I said, listen, you know, we've got a body of literature right now. It's running about, and I think one of the most even keeled people out there is Joel Kahn, who's one of my mentors in cardiology, it's running about 98 to 2 on vegan-based versus keto carnivore. For heart disease. And that's one thing I do want to point out.

Mortality is going to be a little different, but it still is going to skew the way you're talking. Now, for cancer prevention is also running on that vegan approach because all your cruciferous vegetables, anti-cancer. All your medicinalinary stuff, anti-cancer. Heavy meats, pro-colon cancer, for instance. So on cancer is running good. Now, the keto carnivore is particularly interesting because when I ask a, keto carnivores on this, I said, what do you think the real benefit at doing this? Most of them have struggled with their weight, and they're getting wonderful control over their

weight, which they never had before. Yeah. Okay. Most of them struggle with their food urges and the discipline of not eating, and it helps them there greatly. But what they tell me, every single one has told me, the benefits of keto carnivore, improved mental clarity. Sure.

Having the brain use these ketones. Yeah. Somehow this mental, it comes up over. over and over again. And there are miraculous anecdotes. So I've had on my show, Dr. Bosn, Annette Bosworth, she has an anecdote of her mother, essentially resolving a deep cancer syndrome. And she's legit. I was recently at an event, and this woman who's quite an expert, I had her on my show later on, and she publishes a whole book on this, present a case where, A child had profound schizophrenia, became on the street person,

is just mentally just lost, completely have a deep psychiatric syndrome resolve on a ketogenic diet. So what I've said is that, listen, this needs to be explored not as a general diet for the whole country, but boy, for these specific applications, terrific. Sure. And I'm okay with keto carnivore. You know, just have some fruit. And one time I mentioned, they go, fruit, if you eat enough. apple, you're going to throw me out of ketosis.

And I said, listen, I've been a doctor for, gosh, going on 40 years. I've never seen somebody come in my office with serious disease because I ate an apple. That's right. I've never seen it. That's right. I didn't have a doctor coming to say, doctor, I became 300 pounds because I ate too many granite Smith apples. Or doctor, my heart got blocked up.

I ate too many apples. It doesn't happen. With things that are healthy for you, you tend not to overeat them. You use the example of, um, of, um, of, salmon. I'll eat a piece of salmon. I won't go back and have three more. Yeah. But let me tell you, if you put a brownie in front of me, I'll go have three more. So we always overeat the unhealthy things. If I eat an apple, I'm not going to go eat three more. I'm done. Organic lean meat, fruits and vegetables, fruits and vegetables. You and I agree. It solves all problems. We're there.

Yeah, yeah. We're there. But in the setting of COVID in the pandemic, though, a healthy diet is very important. It's part of detoxification. It's part of recovery. We do believe supplements play a role. Natokanase, bromline, curcumin. There may be some others, by the way, Nocetal cysteine may play a role. Cereptase, lumbricanase may play a role. We don't know. We have one paper on surreptase. You know, there's some other general. You mentioned them. It's interesting. Both long COVID and the vaccine, I believe, are immunosuppressive states that the data suggests we're more likely to get common colds. We're more likely to get shingles. Varicell is austere. We're very likely to get Ramsey Hunt. That's what Justin Bieber has. We're more likely to, we're more susceptible now.

We've been immunosuppressed. Maybe it's this segment in the spike protein, this glycoprotein, analogous to HIV. But there's an opportunity for immune boosters, and I've personally subscribed to this. I used to not take any of this. But let me tell you, I think vitamin C plays a role. Probably low-dose zinc plays a role. Not too much. We don't disrupt copper metabolism, but it plays a role. Vitamin D for sure. Yeah.

Vitamin D. Carcitin, I think for sure. I would say a canacia, elderberry, oregano. So look for products that contain multiple of these immune boosters. And then very importantly now, what I'm doing, which I was not doing five years ago, I'm doing a twice-daily nasal spray and gargle, for sure. Yeah. Listen, I just came on a...

plane. There's 300 people. Don't you think somebody had a virus on the plane? Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to do a couple squirts of a nasal spray, sniff it back, blow it out. Remember, when a virus settles in your nose, it's there for five to seven days, it needs a nice, stable, dry nose. You never know it's there. It's replicating, replicating. It's attaching to the hair cells, replicating, replicating, replicating, replicating. The lymphatic stream back to the throat. Your first sign, the virus has been here for a week, is a sore throat. By the time you have a sore throat, it's been there for a week. You had a week to knock this out.

And so a very large study was published in Lancet. It is called the Immune Defense Study. It's very important study. 15,000 participants showing on-demand nasal spray, just doing it when you think you get a sore throat, I suppose. They had about a 25% preventive effect. Not bad. Just do it daily. Don't wait until you have the symptoms.

now we get to 70, maybe even 100% effect. And that's what I'm advising in my practice. I have all my patients doing it. I said, don't worry too much about what you're choosing. Now, wellness company, we have a product called Immune Defense, which is xylitol, erythrotol, a whole bunch of other things combined. Kofix RX has xylitol, palvidone iodine, vitamin D. You know, some have cartogen, some have other grapefruit seed extract in it, fine.

even just salt water has an effect. And in babies, there's been a study, believe it or not, in babies, just did some dilute baby shampoo. Even if you took a little bulb syringe, you squared up in a baby, you literally can have an impact there. But you cannot let the virus set up shot for a week. So what's going on in there? The virus at a low viral load is not doing anything. If you knock it down enough, you give enough time for your mucosal immune system to neutralize it. And you never get the infection.

Yeah. Because we always have, you know, this germ versus terrain thing? Of course. We always have germs up there. Of course. So you're going to have some viruses. You just don't mind them at a low level. But do the nasal spray and gargle twice a day.

And for sure on days you travel. And I've interviewed some people on my show that have gone five, 10, 20 years with no viral. That's incredible. I got to the point in 2020. I had gotten COVID. I was seeing so many patients. I was working so hard. I was sick every month.

I think that year I had 12 colds. I kept telling my wife, oh, no, they're sore throats coming, no sorry. And I just, I couldn't get out of it. People, I was on the frequent commentator group at Fox News. I was on national TV probably a couple hundred times. They'd bring up Fauci, they'd bring up me, and I'd have a handkerchief, whatever,

and they'd say, Doc, you've got to pull it together here. You're sick all the time. And so if you go back in 2020, 2020, my nose was stuffed, and I was sick all the time. now doing a nasal spray and gargle or throat spray twice a day. I've gone a couple years now of stellar health. Amazing. Amazing.

But I'm also using the immune boosters that you mentioned. I'm taking a lot more supplements. And I've had on my show, I think, one of the smartest natural medicine doctors out there. I love this guy. And he's so evidence-based. Michael Galleta. I'm not sure if you ever run into him. He runs the Gaeta Institute.

He gives the best review of some of these topics. You'd love him. And I talked to Gaeta, and I said, listen, I'm an allopathic doctor. I prescribe medicines. I wasn't trained in any of the naturopathic fields at all, nothing. I said, what does it really take if you want to do this naturally? He said, you know, you can prescribe one drug probably and handle something. But in the naturopathic world, it's probably about six to eight.

You just have to accept the fact you're going to use, you're still trying to get a medicinal effect. You're just trying to do it with supplements. And so it's about six to eight. and I encourage people to listen, kind of open up your mind here a little bit. You know, I'll prescribe the heavy-duty drugs when we need to. But let's try this natural approach. And that's our approach at the wellness company. Yeah.

And I have no problem people trying the naturopathic approach. And if things get tougher, we prescribe the drugs. Yeah, I love it. Well, you know, I'm so grateful for you, as I said, you know, looking back at those early stages of COVID, I saw you standing on the front lines, speaking out, acting with current. courage and conviction. And I just thought, wow, that's a, that's a doctor who really is living a life of, like I said, just great conviction. And I don't know if that's because of your faith or just your feelings of, hey, you just want to have a positive impact in the world. But super grateful for you

and all the great things you've done. And just coming on here, the other thing I just, I really appreciate is you've done so much homework. You've been involved in doing, I mean, as many research papers as anybody in your field, which is so incredible that you really understand all the studies and all the evidence and the history. I think that's an incredibly important thing that a lot of people haven't taken the time to learn and we know history repeats itself. And so it's an important thing to understand there as well.

So thanks so much for coming on. And where are the best places people could find more about you, Dr. McCullough? Well, I see patients in the office in Dallas. So my professional website is peter McCullough MD.com. You can follow the instructions on how to request an appointment. I see patients really from all over the country. And make sure you check out the wellness company. there. We've, you know, have a full nationwide company that was born out of the pandemic

with telemedicine, nutraceuticals and supplements, medical emergency kids. We've filled every gap that we've seen in the health care system. We've got a physician medical board there. Go to TWC.com health for the wellness company. Finally, go to McCullough Foundation, mcculloughfnD.org. That's our charitable 501c3 organization that funds our independent investigative scholarship. We have over 100 peer-reviewed publications. We just came out with a key report on the determinants of autism that changed the CDC changed their statements on autism based on that report, I'm certain. So McCullough Foundation is big, and we're making a big impact thanks to exposure on shows like yours. So thank me. Thanks for having us. Well, I appreciate it again. And hey,

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