Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 654 - Alpha Gal and the Legion of Superheroes

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

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We use it for people with stomach and for gas. Oh, shit. It really is very effective. That's why they gave it to people after, you know, you'd have those peppermint sitting out after, you know, at a highfalutin restaurant. The many Indian restaurants will have little peppermint or they'll have fennel seed. Yeah, they'll have that little feral seed.

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have to questions. All right. So what you got? How about one from the trash talking troll? Okay. Yeah. Just questioning about CBD and ayahuasca.

Okay. Two completely different things. Two completely different things. You know, the CBD oil is something that is legal in most states. Yeah. If not all. Yeah. I can't speak to all of them.

So there's a difference between hemp-derived molecules and marijuana derived molecules. They are basically the same plant. But hemp has a lot of CBD and a little bit of THC. And marijuana has a lot of THC and a little bit of CBD. Now, in Tennessee, for example, marijuana is illegal. But CBD is legal and they realize that when you're extracting CBD from a hemp plant, there's always going to be 0.3% of THC in that.

So they set that limit. As long as it's no greater than 0.3% it's legal in Tennessee. And this is true in a lot of states. Yep. So what these geniuses did, because some of them are geniuses. And actually, this doesn't require a whole lot of genius. But you get a liquid chromatography set up. And that is something that will separate molecules by molecular weight.

Okay. And CBD and THHC are two different molecules so you can separate them. So you get a fraction of THC that comes out, you know, of your little vuret. And then you get a fraction of CBD. So you can make CBD gommies, but now you got this THC left over. Well, if you put 10 milligrams of CBD, I'm sorry, 10 milligrams of THC in a 3-1,000, gram gummy. Three gram is three thousand milligrams. What does that come out to? Point three? Oh, yeah. Oops. Wow. Yeah, I didn't mean to do that.

Yeah. So now you're selling THC gummies that are legal and 10 milligrams of THC is plenty for most people. That's kind of what they said, the adult kind of dosing. Yeah, the heroic dose is like 25 So we don't recommend that. In the smarter states like Colorado and California that have it legalized or even Illinois and some of the states, it's 10 milligrams considered the adult dose. Correct. Yep. So you can do that as long as the gummy is three grams and that's just a little square like this, you know, maybe a centimeter on each side.

Yep. Centimeter and a half. Now, there, so in medicine, we had a drug called marinole. They called it Drinabinol, but it's Delta 9 THC, but it was synthesized in the laboratory. That's the difference. Okay. As opposed to being extracted from a plant, it was synthesized in the laboratory. Now, the company that was manufacturing this drug got into trouble with the FDA and they shut down manufacturing for some period of time.

We couldn't get any. Right. Well, we use this for chemotherapy-induced nausea. We use it for weight loss and HIV, all kinds of important things. Yeah, to help stimulate the appetite. We couldn't get it. Right. So I started making a deal with the hemp dispensaries that, you know, I wanted my patients to have pure THC.

And so I give them a sheet of paper and they go over. It's not a prescription. It just tells them what we want. Right. THC, 10 milligram gummy, put it in the freezer, cut it in quarters. You take 2.5 twice a day. That's the same as the Drenabonol 2.5 milligram. Right.

So that was a workaround. Yeah, that's good. And then they're trying to make that illegal. But, you know, that when I went to the state about that one, they did say that the regular THC, 0.3% will still be legal. Mm-hmm. But it was, you know, it's like, can we, can we acknowledge this stuff as medicine and stop effing with it? Amen.

Makes no sense. Makes no sense at all, you know. No. We can't. But, you know, as well as either, you can't tell somebody something that they don't want to hear. That is true. And if they don't want to hear the science. Every once in a while, though.

You got somebody like. They're the ones that get sick. Yeah. Or they're the ones with cancer? Then it's, oh, wait, now it's going to change. Well, if you're willing to listen, you can have your opinion changed. But some people just, their goal is I don't want my opinion change. Right.

They don't care to it. So they won't listen. It doesn't matter. They just want to get a W for their team or an L for the other team. And that's it. Now, Dave Rubin is a great example of that. Whether you like him or not, he was, you know, a left-leaning dude,

but he would have people on his show that he disagreed with. And he got red-pilled because he was willing to listen. God, you know. Just think what, even if you don't like somebody's opinion, doesn't mean it's wrong. Well, and it doesn't even

you might be able to learn something. You might learn. That's what I'm saying. The only time I learn something is when I'm wrong. You know, people go, well, you're always right. And when you're speaking, around people

smarter than you. is because I'm a genius. Yes, I'm usually right. Yes, usually. But when I'm wrong, I actually like that. I like being demonstrated to be wrong about something because I fucking learn something. You learn something. Yeah, I'm with you, man.

God. Arrogance is a terrible thing. Yeah. Stupidity is worse. Especially if you don't know. Right. And Dunning Kruger is just the most irritating thing. And it's irritating both ways.

you know, Dunning Kruger is just cognitive dissonance between someone's ability and their perception of their ability. So when you have dumb people who think they're smart and we've got a whole universe around people like that, you know, the lull calls, almost all of them have, you know, Dunning Krueger, they think they're smarter than they are. And so they'll argue with people and just, shit the bed. Yep. Okay. We had an example of that on the international stage recently, you know, a case of Dunning Crooker.

But it works the other way, too, where smart people who go, like, you know that the typical tech support guy. Yep. That Jimmy Fallon used to do, and he'd say, just click Control X and then, you know, rearrange your database, and then he'd just go move. and then they make them, you know, it's sort of that archetype of the tech support person. They have Dunning Kruger as well. They're at this level and they don't understand that everyone else isn't at that level. Right. So they underestimate their own ability because to them it seems simple and they don't understand why it's not simple to everybody else.

That is also Dunning Kruger. So anyway. All right. All right. And then the ayahuasca. Yeah, you talk about that. You're the hippie. Well, just the ayahuasca is a mind-altering drug that they have.

A lot of the place I've seen, mainly Costa Rica. Yeah. Where they use it in ceremonies and they summon the mother, you know. Okay, that sounds cool. I'd like to meet the mother. And I've actually got a really good friend who went and did the ayahuasca. It's a vine. And they cook it down and make a tea out of it.

Bannisteriopsis copy-eye. Yep. Oh, it's DMT. And it makes you really sick to. Holy shit. It's DMT. We've got to talk about DMT. I'm going to do a live stream about it today.

Well, it will, it will, what they do is they make it, they sit around in groups. Yeah. As a general rule, no. And if you, you know, the quarterbacks for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Aaron Rogers, actually, it goes down and he takes teammates down. Yeah. who suffer with depression, who suffer with anxiety, stuff like that. And he takes them down and he goes and does these ayahuasca ceremonies with them. And it's, you know, if you've ever seen the documentary they did on him on Netflix

and they show these ceremonies where they sit around, they drink the ayahuasca. And they have a, you know, really kind of out-of-body experience. It's pretty fascinating. Yeah. And certainly it's a whole different, whole different thing. a whole different thing, but it looks pretty fascinating. It really does.

Now the ayahuasca, when you take it, it is different from DMT in the sense that it's released slower. So it's more long and introspective, whereas if you take pure pharmaceutical DMT, it's intense and brief. Okay.

They used to call it the businessman's trip. Oh, okay. Yeah, awesca takes a couple hours. Yeah, you get a little bit sick. and a lot of them vomit. But it helps. Do they vomit? They vomit.

Oh, no. If you have coaches there that kind of help you with the vomiting, but they kind of help you talk you through. There's a lot of, I guess, talking therapy. That's true with a peyote, too. People vomit. And then they start hallucinating. Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

So I'm just reading this. It says within seconds, this is DMT of inhalation. Users report a high-pitched, whirring or ringing sound. And then there's a brief transitional space filled with rapidly shifting complex geometric patterns. That's called the waiting room. And then the breakthrough is the pinnacle

that users enter hyperspace that feels realer than real. 94% of users report encountering autonomous entities often described as machine elves, guides, or light beings that seem to communicate through telepathy or visual language. And that's the vast majority of people see that. It doesn't mean it's real. It means that our brain has a specific response to this stuff.

Usually wears off in 30 minutes. People experience ego death, a loss of personal identity, and the feeling of becoming one with the universe. The reason I got excited about this is there was a new study that showed a single dose of DMT was effective for refractory depression. Now, I'm not telling people to go out and do DMT. What I'm telling them is we have new things finally coming other than just serotonin, you know, re-uptake inhibitors. Yes, which is good.

Yeah. Yeah. So let's see here. Here's a table, DMT versus ayahuasca, DMT, 10 to 30 seconds onset. Iawaska that's brewed 30 to 60 minutes, so it's gentler. Total duration of the pure DMT is 15 to 30 minutes, but ayahuasca is 4 to 8 hours. Now, there's minimal purging with DMT, but there's intense vomiting and diarrhea with ayahuasca. So good Lord.

The vibe of DMT is fast, visual, and almost science fiction-y, whereas ayahuasca is slow, emotional and earthy. I have never done either one of these, so I can't speak to this. I'm learning about it. So if anybody's done any of these, I'd be happy to talk to them about it. Well, the people I know that have done, they still with something else. Yeah. Really is a... Can we do without the shitting and the vomiting?

Yeah, that's me. Anyway. I'd be a lot more interested if I didn't have to project a vomit. Yeah. All right. You're going to go to another. Okay. Dang Lizard with a 10 euro super chat.

Thank you, Deng. It says, ironically, you often see Dunning Kruger effect when people discuss it. It's not about intelligence but about unfamiliarity. When you don't know what you don't know, you overestimate what you do. He has a point about that. I mean, it's a good point. It is, yeah, it's not about intelligence. It's about cognitive dissonance.

It's about what you. you know versus what you don't know or what you, how you underestimate your own abilities because you think other people should be able to do what you can do. And it's an inability to kind of be able to process that. Dang Lizard member of 24, member for 24 months. Thank you, sir. Dang, I'm hoping, will be able to come to hackamania this year. I've corresponded with

Ding Lizard for a couple of years now. No, he's in Germany, I believe. Germany, okay. Gotcha. All right. Akasha Nico says she's not a big fan of projectile vomiting either.

There you go. There you go. And then not cupcakes is saying didn't Ari, I'm assuming you're, which Ari are you talking about? Do DMT live on a podcast once.

I would almost do that if I was retired. I just can't do it and have the job that I have. We don't have to worry about that. Oh, and then Chris Mack says he did salvia. So salvia is more of a, oh, shoot, what's the word I'm looking for? Alcalaid. So that has different effects altogether.

Anyway, all right. What else you got, Dr. Scott? We've got a little McRibbs update on the vitrectomy. Vittrectomy? Okay, so we talked about vitrectomy before. That's where they take out the clear jelly and fluid in your eye because it's either got a blood clot in it or you've got floaters to an extent where you can't. You know, it affects your vision. and I have that, but I'm not an astronomer.

I am an amateur astronomer. I can look at anything except the moon. If I look at the moon, all I see is floaters. But if I were a pathologist looking through a microscope, which now it's all video, but I would have opted for the vitrectomy. They counseled against it when I had my retinal detachment, or my vitreous detachment,

and I had an inflammation back there. called posterior uveitis, which my number one video on YouTube is me getting an injection in my eyeball and they wouldn't let me monetize it because it was a medical procedure. Oh, wow. But they counseled against it because if they do the vitrectomy incorrectly and introduce even one bacterium in there, you'll lose your eye. So I decided not to do it. But anyway, go ahead.

What do you got? Well, he was just saying, I guess, did real well for a, about two months, then one day had a floater, they wouldn't go away, and then started to go completely gray in the same eye. And it was a different kind of gray than the vitreous hemorrhage was given.

Avistin. Avastin. A vastin. A vastin. A shot. Okay. Until it comes back in a month. But what's just happening is straight up cruel.

They keep throwing my diabetes past at me. I'm saying that's the problem. Always blame the patient. Yep. Always blame the patient. Even though for years he's been completely under control. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's the easiest way to do. Just blame the patient. Yeah. Avastin is Bevacizumab. Any of those drugs that have MAB at the end, if you see an ad for a drug, and it has the letters MAB at the end, it's a monoclonal antibody. Okay. And they use it for cancer,

But what it does is it inhibits angiogenesis, which is the growth of new blood vessels, which is part of the problem in people have diabetic retinopathy. Okay. And so it starves the – in cancer, it will starve the tumors, but in the eye it'll stop that sort of neo-angiogenesis where it's making new blood vessels and messing up your vision. So did they say anything else? It doesn't look like it told me. He said he told them to come back in a month, and that was it.

Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't sound... Well, I'm sorry that's going on. That doesn't sound great. I always worry about those vitrectomies. And, you know, the thing is it can set up inflammation too. Hey, McRibbs, I'm assuming you're seeing a retinal specialist, but one of the things they may need to look at is are you having uveitis now,

which is inflammation of... the, you know, different parts of the eye, because if you are, a steroid injection in your eye will fix that. So ask them about that. Mm-hmm. All right. Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay.

Let's see here. How about a Koshaniko? Yep. I almost died from a baseball-sized stomach ulcer with a blood vessel spawning. Oh, yeah. You can die from that. Yes. I was 23.

The doctor said the only comparable. case was an 87-year-old lady. Yeah. Yeah, bleeders, you know, stomach. Yeah. Not good. Well, so, Akasha Niko, she can answer this in the chat. Did you have H. Pylori?

Because H. Pylori is a bacterium that they used to laugh about. Say, well, there's no way you could have bacteria. No, it's a bacteria that can eat away at the, uh, stomach lining and cause ulcers. And, you know, the stomach lining is covered in mucus, and there are chemicals in there that prevent the stomach from eating itself. But every once in a while, you'll get a wound in there, and then the stomach starts to eat itself.

And when you lose that protective barrier, all the gastric acid and the enzymes and all that stuff can start to break down the tissue. And when you break it down enough, there's blood vessels in there. And when you open up one of those. blood vessels. You've got a problem. That acid is that blood vessel and it's squirt, squirt, squirt. Yep, yeah. So if you get one of those. So normally if you have slow bleeding in the stomach, you'll get black tarry stools. We call it melana. Right. And if you, listen, y'all,

if you want to name your kid Malina, which is a great name, do not spell it M-E-L-E-N-A, because you're naming your kid Black-T-R-R-E-N-A. Okay. M-A-L-I-N-A, or M-A-L-E-E-N-A, but not M-E-L-E-N-A. Okay. M-A-L-E-N-A would work. That's Malena, but anyway. Yeah. So, okay, I'm just throwing that out there.

I have a reason for that. I've seen it a couple of times. But, yeah, if they tested you for the helicobacter, one of the things they would have done is put you on these high-powered oral antibiotics. and to kill it. And, but then you've got to heal that area as well. Sometimes they've got to cut it out. They'll do a thing called an antrectomy

where they actually remove part of the stomach. And that kind of sucks. They can do endoscopy and go in there and try to cauterize it, but it's still got to heal up over time. So I would love to know Akasha Niko how that worked out. Mm-hmm. Anyway, there is, obviously, medications now, the proton pump inhibitors help to protect the stomach from its own acid by raising the pH of the stomach.

But once you start having that bleeder, it's got to be fixed right now. Right. They ban those. They ban them. They ban the bleeder and the stomach, like they do the esophagus. Yeah. Like an esophageal percy. Yeah.

Well, they'll clip it or they'll clip it. Yeah. Right. Or they'll cauterize it or do, you know, stuff like that. But the thing I was getting at is if you have a slow bleed in the stomach, you'll get melana, right? The black tariff stool. But if you get a fast bleed, you'll get bright red blood pouring out of the ass and you know that patient's hemorrhaging. You have to do something about it right then. It's a surgical emergency.

Yes. Okay. All right. Ray DeVito, the gummy smoker said, isn't Bill Burr learning to fly a helicobacter? That's pretty good. He flies a helicovactor. I think I'm going to watch, Kyle. All right.

Yeah, okay, she said they used a scope down my throat and colonized it. All right, very good. All right, what else you got? How about a... I see the one pun saying something. Go ahead. Go ahead. Well, I was going to say, God, let's see, we had one about acupuncture and alpha-gal.

Okay, yeah. Treating. Well, we should talk about what Al-Gal is first. Well, you want to talk Al-Faghan and all-Tot treatment? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So every once in a while, people get bit by a tick, and then their immune system will attack this, this molecule that is in the tick saliva, okay, because it's foreign. And all of a sudden, those antibodies go, oh, I see the same thing on red meat.

Right. And so now people, when they eat red meat, they'll get hives and itching and stomach cramps and sometimes anaphylaxis. They'll get the, you know, the swelling of the, of, the tissues in the airway so they can't breathe. And it might be two to ten hours. And it's beef, pork, lamb, and every once in a while dairy. And then they get a specific blood test for IGE for this galactose alpha-13 galactose molecule.

And if you have that, then you have alpha-gal. and that's named Alpha-Gal because of Alpha-13 Galactose. It's a sugar. And so when you get that, what is that? It's just a timer. Okay. When you get that, you can't eat those meats anymore.

Now, if you stop eating those and stop producing the antibody, you can get over it, but it usually takes about two to three years. You can't eat. of that shit for two to three years. It's a red meat and dairy, strict avoidance. And if you'll do it, then you can, after about three years, you can start eating that stuff again.

But as far as acupuncture, I don't know where there's a role for that other than if you're having an attack, it can make you feel better. Yeah, but there's some pretty good studies on using acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, to treat this alpha-gal. Really? By stimulating the body's ability to dampen down. Do you mean response? Oh, okay, I can see that.

And I'll tell you the really interesting thing. I use the same points for people with any kind of autonomic. Oh, yeah. Solomon auricular allergic treatment. Good job, doctor. Give thyself a bell. But the point, here's the interesting, and you'll know this, one of the points that they talk about, and I actually use two points.

One is the auricular branch of the splenning nerve. and the splenic nerve, which helps to regulate the immune response. Yeah. Yep. And the other one I actually use is the auricular branch of the vagus nerve. Yes. It helps to turn up parasympathetic tone. Yeah.

And kind of calm. It helps some pain too. It does, yeah. But it helps with inflammation. So, that's what I would, you know, that's, and I actually put needles in and use electrical stimulation instead of leaving the needles in the ear for, you know, three or three or. days or three weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you.

It's just easier or safer. Okay, well, here, let's look at the data here. Successful treatment for alpha-gal mammal product allergy using auricular acupuncture, a case series. Now, this is a case series. Now, this is a double-blind placebo-controlled study, and this is also in a journal called medical acupuncture, which you would assume would have a certain bias toward positive results, but says it showed effectiveness in the large. majority of patients. Okay, you got to quite, you can't say shit like that. What was the

percentage? So let's see here. Okay. Wow, for those individuals with available outcome data, 96% of patients indicated their symptoms were in remission after this treatment. What? Seems all over high. Holy shit. Okay, we got it. This has to be reproduced. If this is true, this is a huge breakthrough. That's 2021. Let's see here. All right. Let's see if that's ever been reproduced because that's massive.

Get a hell out of it. You see? And that's why I like doing the show because I'm like, well, there's no role for this. Subjects had attempted a variety of treatments to alleviate symptoms associated with Alphagal, 94 out of 137 patients had received a formal alpha-gal diagnosis from an allergist. Okay, so first off, that was only 70 percent, so the other people didn't even have a diagnosis. Anaphylaxis was formally diagnosed in 34 patients. The majority of patients attempted simple avoidance of alpha-gal, okay?

28 subjects used antihistamines and had taken oral corticosteroids. Okay, all the patients received treatment for alpha-gal using. the SAA-T method for those individuals with available outcome data 96-121 indicated their symptoms

were in remission a period of nine months had transpired for all patients with some being in remission for years get the hell out of here that's awesome

that's pretty okay if that can be repeated in a decent study other than just a case study I'm in no I know I think that's And I was just giving you why I think it works.

You know, I can't probably. Yeah, no, no, no, yeah, yeah. But I was giving you what I think works out. But that's how we've got to look at retraction watch too to see if this article has been retracted to it because it won't say here. But yeah, that's here. Leave me a note. Let's dig deeper into this, see if this study has been reproduced.

because why wouldn't every allergist do this instead of doing what they're doing? No, bullshit. If they had a cure for it, they would do it because they could charge for it. They could charge two grand for this. They can say, look, you can avoid this stuff forever because they're not doing anything for it anyway. The allergies aren't. But I can charge two grand for this and I can make it go away. Yep.

Has to have been attempted to reproduce this. So we're going to have to find out more. Who brought that up? I'm going to, I want to send them something. Because this is a good one. Who was that? I'm looking again. Who?

Who? Who? Who was that? Who, who? Anyway. All right. Ari Shafir smoked Salvia live on a podcast. Okay, that's what it was.

And Don Jr. said salvia's not so. Yes, those alkaloids are nutsos. Okay, Don Jr. is eating mushrooms right now. So he's going to be tripping balls while we're talking. All right, so is Homer 53-64? Okay. Homer 53-64, send me an email because you just taught me something. All right. Let's do it.

You ready to get out of here? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Is that the only thing? Well, we could go all day. You know we could. But it's getting late. All right. Well, let's see here.

Okay, Ray DeVito has a disgusting question. Let's go. Let's go. You've got about... The one pun says, Kermak is dealing with Alpha-Gal. Oh, with an Alpha-Gal. Okay. I get it. He's dealing with Ann Al-Fagel. He's talking about his girlfriend. Oh. Okay. Let me see. Will this episode be available afterward? Yes. I forgot the steroid you mentioned in addition to Dave Astin.

Yeah, of course. We put these out on our Patreon in unexpidated form, and then we put an edited version out as a podcast every 10 days. So, yeah. The one pun says, I can't imagine not being able to have steak again. Well, it's not forever. They can do the two years, penance, and then but if you still have the antibodies running around then you got to start all over again

if you eat meat and all of a sudden you get symptoms it's another two years so I would go three years yep or try this damn acupuncture shit as they say it can hurt you yeah right that's right it either will help or it won't help that we know for sure that I can promise you Oh, Ray DeVito says, I constantly harassed my ingrown toenails. Can I get some kind of cancer thing? I'm constantly digging. No, not really, but... Okay.

Ray DeVito, call 347-7666433 right now. Next time we do a show, we will talk about home treatment for ingrown toenails. And in-office treatment. Because the in-office treatment is definitive. People used to come in to see me. They'd be miserable. I can't walk. I'm in pain. They would walk out completely pain-free.

But it costs something. It costs to doctors, but I don't know what people are charging for it now. But you can do some of the stuff at home, and it's called the Cotton Pledge of Technique. And that is absolutely something that can be done at home. All right. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, Dr. Scott. Thanks to everybody's made this show happen over the years.

And thanks to our listeners, particularly in the fluid family, His voicemail and topic ideas make this job very easy. Go to our website, Dr. Steve.com for schedules, podcasts, and other crap. Until next time, check your stupid nuts for lumps, quit smoking, get off your asses, get some exercise. We'll see you in one week for the next edition of Weird Medicine. Thanks, everybody.