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Oct. 1, 2023 - Blood Money
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Building a New Medical System w/ Dr Richard Amerling (Blood Money Episode 144)
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How you doing, Dr. Emmerlein?
I'm doing great. How are you?
Excellent, excellent. Couldn't be better, yeah.
So you have, you know, a classic story of being essentially a frontline doctor that didn't want to go, you know, to essentially agree with their narrative.
You stood up against the COVID mandates and obviously that had an interesting effect on your life.
Can you take us through that journey?
Well, sure. I was a Clinical, academically oriented nephrologist for the vast part of my career up in New York City at Beth Israel Medical Center, where incidentally I worked shoulder to shoulder with Pierre Corey.
We were partners in crime there.
He was running the ICU and I was doing nephrology.
In 2016, I got kind of disgusted with what the corporate takeover had done to the hospital.
Mount Sinai Health Systems took over our wonderful little community hospital downtown, and they proceeded to destroy it.
And I was looking for an exit strategy, and the idea came to me to Look into teaching down at St.
George's University in Grenada.
This is one of the oldest Caribbean medical schools.
Everything's taught in English, and they had a very good record in terms of getting people back into the States, into residency programs, and a very big school.
I would teach down there eight or nine hundred students at a time.
So I applied and months later ended up going down there.
So I was working down there teaching first and second year medical students and working as a nephrologist in the local hospital and clinic, which was quite an experience since they didn't really have any nephrologists down there when I was down there.
And everything was going along just great.
When COVID came, they decided to go online and they closed the school.
They went Completely online.
All the teaching, all the exams, everything.
They pulled their students out of their clerkships, which are in-person, hands-on training at hospitals around the country.
They pulled them all out. It was quite a scene.
Some bad decisions, in my view.
And they were about to close the island and isolate themselves from the world.
And I couldn't stay isolated in a little island in the Caribbean when I have family and friends up in the States.
So I flew out on one of the last flights out, went back up to the States, eventually bounced back to New York, which is my home, and volunteered To work at Bellevue Medical Center, which was very hard hit in the acute stages of the pandemic back in April of 2020.
So I was literally on the front line of COVID. That was another incredible experience, and we can get into that at some point if you like.
But I thought that this also would stand me well when I was going to be, you know, trying to debate with my colleagues down at St.
George's about what to do about it.
You know, why lock down?
Why do all this stuff?
And ultimately the vaccine mandate.
Nevertheless, that did not help.
And when I went back down to Grenada to teach, they were still closed, but I had my clinic going.
They were talking about a vaccine mandate, and I was arguing at the highest levels of the administration against it.
I thought it was absurd.
You know, it was a brand new product.
They had no long-term safety data.
Even the initial studies were flawed, in my view, and not very strong, and they barely showed any benefit, frankly.
Nevertheless, they were probably under orders from above, and they pushed through a vaccine mandate, and I refused to comply.
I was put on administrative leave in July of 2021 and ultimately terminated at the end of that year because I refused.
So that was that.
I worked for a while in the States with Simone Gold in America's Frontline Doctors and then went out on my own and started trying to put together a telemedicine company That would try to get medicine back to where it ought to be, patient-centered, in other words, not pharma medicine, which is what most people do right now, working with some colleagues.
And we eventually hooked up with entrepreneur Foster Colson out of Canada, who shared the vision, wanted to have a non-pharma-based medical system that was Focus on the patient and wellness.
So that was the birth of the wellness company.
Foster put up the dough.
We had myself, Dr.
Heather Gessling. I then brought in my old friend, another colleague from way back when, Dr.
Peter McCullough. He and I were friends for over 20 years.
And Harvey Rich, who I'd gotten to know via email and various online communications.
And that was the core group, the medical board of the wellness company.
We also had Ryan Cole initially, but he stepped out for reasons that we still don't really quite understand.
Gotcha, gotcha. So tell me a little bit about now, you're saying in 2016, you saw how the corporate takeover was destroying the hospital that you're working at.
Tell us a little bit about what that looked like.
What was the process of the hospital being destroyed?
Was that replicated all around the country?
And what were the inherent issues with their process?
Right. Well, you know, our hospital, initially when I started working there in 1990, was on its own, a community academic teaching hospital.
We had an affiliation with Mount Sinai back then, when Mount Sinai was actually good, and later on Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
But then we were on our own.
Several years in, they formed what was called Continuum Health Partners, which was a larger corporation consisting of that hospital plus three others that they had bought.
And things already started to deteriorate a little bit, because when you are the president of one hospital, And Bob Newman was there every day, you know, walking around.
He knew everybody and everything going on there.
When you start to dilute that through four different institutions, quality starts to suffer and things were not as good.
Then back in 2014, We were looking to partner.
First, we had a deal with NYU, which would have been much better.
NYU is a much better institution than Mount Sinai.
But at the last minute, Sinai stepped in and they stole the deal and they became our partners.
And they initially sold it as a merger.
When in fact it was a hostile takeover.
They were not going to follow any of our traditions.
And they very quickly started to fire a lot of the top clinicians in the hospital, the division chiefs, anyone who had a big salary they were going to cut, right?
And they replaced them with much more junior faculty.
Who didn't have the stature, didn't have the publications, didn't have the experience to do those jobs.
So that immediately decreased the quality of the institution.
They also went ahead with a treat by numbers kind of approach, which I hate.
You know, a clinician that likes to treat each individual as an individual.
And treating by numbers, and they pushed the electronic health record viciously.
And I used to get calls, you know, every few days about not having signed off my notes on the electronic health record, because without my signature, of course, they couldn't submit a bill, right?
So this was their primary focus.
It was just about maximizing volume, maximizing money coming in, and it was kind of repulsive to me.
So I was looking for a way out, and one day, taking the subway uptown, I spotted an advertisement for St.
George's University, and the rest is history.
Wow, wow. So, this all happened around 2016, right?
What happened at the hospitals?
Yes. And this was happening all around the country, you think?
Or was it unique to your hospital?
There's been a movement to merge and incorporate and create larger and larger systems.
And this was billed as a way to deal with insurance companies.
The more leverage you have, the more institutions and doctors and patients that you control, the more you can bargain with the insurance companies and get favorable rates.
That's, in my view, what started this whole trend.
Consolidation and mergers.
And it did happen around the country.
And most hospitals now are part of a larger group, a larger chain.
And this is what we see everywhere.
And it's very corporate.
The doctors become more and more like interchangeable cogs in this machine.
Than the true healers and valued people that they should be, right?
In any normal system.
And were, by the way, and were.
In our original hospital system, doctors were kind of, you know, respected.
I mean, it's odd to say that now because it's so rare.
Doctors are disrespected in the current hospital environment.
And I encourage them all to get out and just start a private practice while you still can.
Yeah. What's interesting to me is, you know, I work in media and some of these timelines are very fascinating to me because I see in different spheres similar things happening, right?
And I'll give you an example, which is that 2016 I was working at Vice Media and essentially was an executive producer.
When you're saying about the hospitals, how people that were professionals were fired and replaced by lesser experienced individuals, I saw the exact same thing happen in the media, at Vice Media, heard about it happening at other companies.
At that time, they were trying to do, you know, the whole woke thing, you know, Diversity, inclusion.
So they got rid of all the traditional staff members at most of these networks, brought in these purple-haired people, and it happened around the same time.
So, I mean, big coincidence.
Big coincidence. I don't know.
I mean, it's hard to, like, I guess, say that this is not something that was happening across multiple industries.
I mean, did you hear about similar things happening in other theaters, or was it unique to the medical world?
I did not.
Some of the diversity stuff was going on back then, for sure.
But I'm sorry, the phone's ringing.
Don't worry. What I saw was, I think, part of the endgame of what had been going on for a long time in medicine, which was the destruction of the independent practitioner.
And the independent practitioner was the bedrock of American medicine and is what made it great.
And over time, through various means, mostly the third party payment system getting more and more onerous and difficult to navigate, these practitioners were forced to leave their practices or sell their practices and come under the shelter of one of these big systems.
And one of the major drivers of this was Obamacare, which pushed in the electronic health record.
And to have to set up and run an electronic health record is an enormous expense and very complicated and requires really a full-time staff almost to run or at least one person who's going to run that.
That was kind of the final straw for a lot of private practitioners.
They said, I can't do it.
And they also imposed various hurdles for reporting of different things, you know, the payment for performance scam, things like that, to get paid.
So it became almost impossible to make a living as a private doctor Unless you were going to charge cash only and have more or less of a direct pay model, some call it concierge, but it wasn't really.
It was just a normal medical relationship where you paid cash and you didn't accept third-party payment, then you could practice good quality medicine.
And doctors who did that became successful and they were very satisfied.
And that's still available.
And this is what I recommend to young doctors.
Instead of joining some hospital system where you're going to get a steady but low paycheck, get out in the real world and do your own thing.
It's the only way you're going to be satisfied and the only way you're really going to help patients.
So you were saying Obamacare was instrumental in changing the medical field.
Now, was that intentional, you think?
Or was this just like calamity of errors that led us to this juncture?
Well, I don't know. You know, I don't know if there was any great mastermind behind it.
I mean, I know that the socialists and the communists have always wanted to control health care.
That's been part of their program from the beginning, because controlling medical care, you control the population very clearly.
So that was always a big part of the agenda.
Whether the destruction of private medical practice was, is something we can discuss.
I don't have any direct, I don't have any smoking gun type memos saying that this is what they were trying to do, but that clearly was the effect.
And I learned a long time ago, the acronym POSIWID, P-O-S-I-W-I-D. The purpose of something is what it does.
So what they did was they destroyed private medical practice.
And so I believe that that was the purpose of a lot of these things, to make it so difficult for doctors to practice privately that they would have to move into the big system and work for the man.
And this was horrible, not only for patient care and quality of care, but also for physician independence.
And physicians as independent practitioners were always safeguards of our individual liberty because of our ethical obligation to protect our patients from harm.
We would be pushing back against mandates from the government that were harmful.
And this is exactly what did not happen during COVID. None of the things that came out of these public health mandates were evidence-based, science-based or smart or good or effective.
They were all harmful. From the lockdowns, to social distancing, to mask wearing, to blocking early treatment with drugs that we knew worked, like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, to recommending that doctors abandon their patients.
That was the official recommendation.
Tell your patients to just stay at home and call an ambulance if they can't breathe.
That was an egregious reach of medical ethics and an independent, strong medical profession that was Serving their patients, meaning that they were getting paid by their patients and they had a practice that sustained them rather than being paid by some corporate entity.
That sort of an independent medical profession would have pushed back, in my view, against this tyranny that unfolded and could have stopped it.
But sadly, only a handful of doctors did.
Yeah, I mean, there's very few that actually stood up to this tyranny.
Now, you know, how do we...
Is there any fixing the catastrophe that this medical industrial complex has become?
And if the answer to that is no, what comes next?
Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that it is irreparable at this point.
The vested interests, largely pharma, right?
Pharma... Single-handedly controls medicine in so many ways and has single-handedly destroyed real medicine.
They're behind a lot of this stuff.
It's so entrenched and so powerful that we can't fix the current system.
They are in every aspect of medical training, certification, continuing education, Medical school, you know, they're in there, okay?
They control the agenda.
They control the curriculum.
To try to dislodge them, I think, would be impossible at this point.
I think the only solution is to create a parallel system, and the wellness company is trying to do just that.
I mean, what does that parallel system look like?
Well, we're cash-based, right?
We're not going to deal with any insurance.
We deal directly with patients.
We have no intermediaries.
We don't follow any treatment guidelines.
We do our own thing.
We treat based on real science as opposed to junk science, which they call evidence-based medicine.
And we put the patient's interest first.
And we don't...
We're not trying to...
Be greedy. You know, we want to just make a living doing good, doing good medicine, make a living, continue to grow, continue to add doctors, add training programs.
Eventually, we'll have our own parallel medical school and training program.
That's our long-term goal.
Wow, wow. So in terms of the affordability of all this, right, people think that, hey, you know, I need insurance because it's so expensive and I could go bankrupt.
How is it, you know, bankrupt if something goes wrong?
You know, people spend sometimes hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars on their health.
How does one address that with this new parallel system?
Well, we do not cover everything and we don't do everything.
So we're recommending that people retain some sort of catastrophic insurance program.
And that could be something like MediShare, right?
A Christian sharing ministry.
But something that will cover them in the event of a catastrophic illness or an accident.
Because we can't possibly do that right now.
Maybe eventually we can have our own insurance system, but that's way, way, way down the line.
Most of medical care, the prices for most medical services are grossly inflated by insurance, by the third party system.
The idea that someone else is covering the bill It means that everything goes.
And no one is saying no to lavish exams, procedures, tests, etc., because someone else is paying.
Once you are paying yourself, All this stuff goes way down.
Without loss of quality, by the way.
We always treated the self-paid patient somewhat differently.
We didn't order 20 lab tests when really one or two was all we were really interested in.
We didn't get a whole panel.
We didn't do a shotgun approach to diagnosis.
We were more focused.
We didn't get a CT scan for everybody who came in with a headache.
We used History, physical examination, our clinical experience to provide high-quality care without huge expense.
And, you know, everywhere where there is competition in medicine, prices have become moderated.
This has been known for a long time.
Cosmetic surgery, which is not covered by insurance.
LASIK eye surgery, not covered by insurance.
All these procedures have decreased in price over time.
And they're extremely good, very high quality.
Wow, very cool, very cool.
Now, Wellness Company is based in Canada?
Well, it's hard to say where we're based.
Our offices are actually in southern Florida.
The founder, Foster, is up in Canada.
And we also now have a wellness company, Canada.
We have a medical board up there and we're trying to provide some alternatives for the poor Canadian or Canadian brethren who are trapped in truly a horrific central government system where they have very little ability to get private care or get outside opinions.
And we're going to try to create that for them up in Canada.
That's awesome. That's awesome.
You're talking about, you're on the front lines with, I believe you said Bellevue Hospital.
Could you tell us a little bit about that?
Because that was in the news.
I remember there being a lot of talk about that particular hospital.
Tell us what was going on there.
Right. Well, I got in there in April.
So the month right before that was the worst.
It was literally from what I saw and from what my colleagues there told me, it was like a war scene.
Patients being brought in every day, extremely sick.
This was the first wave of COVID. And there were those out there who say that there was no real acute new respiratory virus around.
I beg to differ. There was.
This was a manufactured bioweapon designed to be highly infective and lethal.
So these first cases, before the virus had a chance to moderate itself, which is the natural history of all viral illnesses, they always tend to get milder over time because the very virulent strains kill the host and they can't spread.
So viruses always tend to become moderate.
That's called Mueller's ratchet, by the way.
And we knew that that was going to happen with this disease.
And of course it did.
So that first wave, though, was pretty devastating.
And Bellevue, actually, I had put my name on the list to volunteer in New York because Cuomo had put out the call and I'm a New York licensed doctor and I felt I should.
And then once I got on that list, I got a call from my old colleague, David Goldfarb, who's the head of nephrology at Manhattan VA, which is allied with Bellevue.
It's part of the same system, Bellevue Health System.
Also NYU is part of that system.
And he told me that they were having so much kidney disease in this acute phase of COVID that their dialysis capabilities were being overwhelmed.
And they needed to fall back on a more primitive form of dialysis, which I was quite expert in because I had done that my entire career called peritoneal dialysis.
And I came up to help them with that program.
So I saw Many patients in the ICU in April, May, June of 2020, who were extraordinarily sick, multi-system failure, many, some actually had kidney disease when they came in, but many developed acute kidney injury.
This is, by the way, pre-remdesivir.
Remdesivir is a toxic agent that does not prevent death Or really do provide any benefit in any patients with COVID should never have been used.
And the fact, by the way, that they just got the FDA authorization for use in patients with chronic kidney disease is horrific.
It's absolutely horrific.
But that's another story.
But the whole Bellevue experience was pretty insane.
We'd go make rounds and We saw these patients.
We were seeing mostly the patients with kidney failure who were on dialysis.
And it was fearful, actually.
It was a lot of fear in the air going in to actually see and touch these patients.
And sadly, very few of us really did very much.
We managed them more through the window than from the bedside, which I think was awful.
These poor patients isolated from their families.
They would have some communication via iPads.
I mean, it was really, really one of the most horrific things I've seen.
These extraordinarily sick patients who knew that they were going to be probably dying soon, and they couldn't have their family members with them.
And this is still going on in some places, which is, I think, one of the biggest crimes against humanity that we've witnessed during this whole COVID adventure.
Yeah, I definitely appreciate the term crimes against humanity.
I mean, until today, this is going on.
And how is that even possible where, I mean, all the research is out there.
We know what's happened. We know that a lot of the things that we were told were complete lies.
I mean, how is something like this still occurring?
I know. I mean, in many ways, we've lost the country.
I mean, the country is being run by an elitist cabal out of Washington, D.C. The only place where you have relative freedom are certain states.
Thank God for our federal system where we have states that can stand up for their own autonomy and protect their citizens.
But the country is gone for now.
I mean, if they... Allow a fair election in 2024.
I'll be shocked.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it seems like, you know, even from Joseph Biden's comments, he seems to believe that the election's already in the bag for him.
I mean, he was hanging out with, I believe, Erdogan of Turkey.
And he said, oh, for the next five years, I'm going to be president with a lot of confidence and, you know, kind of like a blanket statement that I think would insinuate.
I mean, he made those kind of statements in 2020 as well.
Nancy Pelosi made statements like that definitive that in 2020, Biden was going to win.
And then lo and behold, he wins.
And a lot of people don't think he got 81 million votes.
A lot of people think there was massive voter fraud.
In fact, at this point, it's an embarrassment that this is the, you know, best and brightest out there of our country, leading the country.
You know, what do you think is going on there?
You think like, I know you You don't have a crystal ball, but do you think we're looking at pretty much corrupt elections going forward so this cabal essentially holds on to their power and escapes any sort of criminal charges, any sort of repercussions for what they have done?
They're desperate to retain power because they know if they don't, they will be brought up under criminal charges for all this criminality that they've been openly engaged in.
Violations of the Constitution.
Selective prosecution, the complete corruption of the Department of Justice, all this stuff, I mean, Fauci, lying, everything, it's all going to come crashing down, and people will do jail time, I hope, if there's a new administration.
So they, I think, will do anything to prevent that from happening.
And election fraud, they already did.
I mean, clearly.
I mean, there's no way that this old fool got 81 million votes.
There's just no way. And you're moderate talking.
I mean, this whole interview, I haven't gotten the sense that you are a right-wing extremist or anything.
I mean, you seem very middle of the road.
And you're feeling this way, which is...
I mean, in the scheme of things, it's kind of like, I mean, that's a little depressing that moderates like you are feeling like this country is lost and we're looking at a complete corruption of our system.
Well, I don't know what moderate really means.
What I would describe myself as is a level-headed, clear thinking Scientific physician who's a keen observer.
I mean, I don't get emotional about these things.
I mean, I'm angry, you know, under the radar.
I'm angry about a lot of what is going on.
I mean, our country has been stolen from us.
Our president was ousted in a coup.
And I was not a slavish fan of Donald Trump either.
I thought that his handling of the COVID situation was frankly bad.
I mean, he allowed these lockdowns to occur.
He pushed the vaccine.
He still does, from what I know.
And he gave Fauci and Birx way too much power.
And he got played. That's my view.
He got played by these guys.
And so I hold that against him.
Nevertheless, the fact that they are attacking him so viciously means that he was over the target and that they fear him.
And they fear him because he's going to take apart their little empire where the Uniparty runs the country for their benefit and not for the benefit of the people.
Exactly, yeah. You know, it's funny because I was just today, I was on Facebook and I'm pulling this up on my phone.
That's why I'm looking down here, right?
So on July 27, 2020, there was an article posted, drug makers refuse to attend a White House meeting after Trump issues executive order on cost, right?
It was very clear to me watching this because, you know, I mean, I'm not drinking the mainstream media Kool-Aid.
I try to see things from a bird's eye point of view.
That the minute Trump started going after Big Pharma, trying to get us better pricing, trying to get his most, I believe, most favored nation's pricing, they went after him pretty hard.
And it was right around that 2020 election, like the walls literally crumbling, the ceiling falling on the man's head via Big Pharma because they were very angry at what he had done.
This was very clear to me.
Now, the regular folks out there You know, we're drinking the Kool-Aid and thinking that all this propaganda that was being put out there by Big Pharma was actually true.
But what I know from working in entertainment is that, you know, you have something like Big Pharma, you pay PR agencies multiple millions of dollars, you know, tens of millions of dollars, and you can pretty much seed any story, including all the Orange Man bad stuff, Really to get the guy out of power, because this is obviously not their puppet, right?
He's not the guy that's going to sign orders that give pharma what they want.
He was fighting big pharma.
Do you think that ultimately Trump...
I mean, we all talk about the fraud of 2020.
Do you think it was ultimately pharma going after him, big pharma going after him, that was a tipping point in what many think was a stolen election?
Yeah. You know, it's hard to say because he did give them what they wanted in terms of the vaccine, in terms of drugs like remdesivir, molnupiravir.
They got their guy into the head of the FDA, Scott Gottlieb.
He was a pharma whore from way back.
He's a pharma whore?
Yeah, absolutely. They are pharma whores.
I love that you said that. Thank you.
And still is, of course.
And Alex Azar as head of HHS, these were big favors to pharma that enabled them to roll their agenda right through Operation Warp Speed.
So in a way, he got played by pharma.
So I don't see him as being the big pharma enemy that everybody else does.
Pharma does nothing but lie.
They're the worst, the worst of the worst.
Their drugs mostly don't work.
The studies that promote them are mostly crap.
They control the journals.
They control what gets published.
They then feed the doctors these reprints that they pay for, which supports the journals.
Create guidelines by getting these associations to, you know, giving them a big grant to hire some doctors to put together treatment guidelines.
And all the doctors they seem to hire for these panels are also pharma whores in one way or another.
So they get their agendas through, they get their drugs recommended by this guideline or that guideline, and that's how they market their drugs now.
I mean, it's way beyond giving out pens to doctors.
It's much more sophisticated than that now.
They're actually creating practice guidelines that have tremendous power and influence over the way doctors actually behave.
I mean, that is just bananas that, like, that's even been allowed.
I mean, how did it get this far?
I mean, logic would tell you that this is, you know, essentially what you're talking about is a corrupt system.
And the thing that really strikes me is that this is like an old PR trick, right?
Being in entertainment, you know, you hire PR agencies to create these false realities.
It happens, you know, a lot because all you need is good lawyers, good PR agencies.
You can make any kind of fiction and reality.
In those situations.
Now, I have personal experience, and I bring this topic up because there's a lot of similarities, right?
I'm of Armenian descent, and I know that, for example, the Turkish government for the last, you know, 50-something years has spent a lot of money in creating a false reality of what happened to the Armenians and the Ottoman Empire because there are legal implications with the genocide that happened there.
So growing up, I saw very much how A government, moneyed interest, could buy people in politics, buy people in media, buy people in PR, lawyers, that literally are there to create a false reality, and there's an engine that does that, right? But how do we get to this point where with medicine, where life and death, it's a life and death game, this has been allowed?
Oh, it's money talks, you know, and it's been going on for a very long time.
Just look back to the 60s when these two doctors, I'm blocking their names, wrote an op-ed in the New England Journal of Medicine condemning Fat as a culprit in heart disease and saying that sugar isn't so bad.
Well, this was a very influential piece that was put out there.
The New England Journal of Medicine never let on that these guys were paid $50,000 by the sugar industry to write this piece.
Wow, yeah. So that had a big influence on how the debate went over what was the cause of this big increase we were seeing in heart disease.
What was really happening besides smoking, of course, was the huge consumption of sugar, sugar and vegetable oil, which were being pushed by the big sugar lobby, the vegetable oil lobby, like Procter& Gamble with Crisco.
And they paid off various people in the Senate committee run by George McGovern.
And they came up with these dietary guidelines that we were still living with.
Which came down to the food pyramid, that most of your calories should be grains, and you should eat saturated fat, almost not at all.
And this led immediately to an epidemic of obesity that is still going on.
And type 2 diabetes.
Sorry to interrupt you, it's almost like too easy.
That's the thing that is like crazy.
Like you're talking about like 50, because I know the effect that had, right?
You see these pictures from the 50s, 60s, 70s, a lot from the 70s too, where people are very trim at the beach.
Right. And then you look at the 80s, 90s, and it's just these grotesquely like Nero-esque Fat asses.
I'm sorry. And then, by the way, they start telling us that people like Lizzo are beautiful.
I mean, heart disease and diabetes is a beautiful thing.
I mean, you're talking about, what, like $100,000 that was paid to these doctors to start these, like literally a calamity of events.
And God knows how many people perish because of that.
It's like there's probably not even a financial amount you could put on all the people that said, oh, sugar is good, sugar is good, cut the heart disease, cut the diabetes.
And all of this calamity just seems too easy, you know, for people that have money.
It is. It is too easy.
And again, the medical profession should have had the knowledge and independence to push back against it.
And of course, some did. I never really bought that whole food pyramid stuff.
It never made sense to me.
I was an early adopter of the Atkins approach to diet, you know, low-carb, high-fat.
And Did you say Atkins?
Robert Atkins. Sorry, Robert Atkins, my bad.
But many, of course, bought into it.
And those dietary guidelines were very influential in that every government institution must follow them.
That includes government-funded schools.
That includes the military.
It's obvious we have a big obesity problem in the military now.
I wonder why, because they're getting grains, high fructose corn syrup, and vegetable oil, as opposed to healthy food like meat and eggs.
I mean, we were talking about the Canadian medical system and the socialist medical system.
I guess one of the pros of it, and I would never say pro of anything communist or socialist, but when the government is paying for your medicine...
You know, they seem to want to poison you less, right?
And by that, what I mean, you know, people that have traveled to Canada recently have told me that, you know, the tap water there is a lot cleaner, right?
Now, where I live, the tap water literally tastes like it's gushing chlorine, you know?
It's like, I've actually distilled some tap water, and I gotta tell you, the stuff that, you know, and it was like this much tap water, right?
I distilled it, and the gunk at the bottom, okay?
Was just so horrifying that it was literally just a sludge of toxic material that was left there, okay?
And this is the water that we have in our state, right?
But then you have people that go to places like Canada, and they talk about, you know, how the water's better, how the food tastes better, not as much chemicals.
And my logic is, you know, the government's paying for your medical care.
They're probably not gonna wanna give you cancer, heart disease, and that sort of thing.
I don't know. Do you agree with that?
Is there a conversation there in terms of, you know, some kind of, you know, government involvement in the calamity?
Like if, you know, they're poisoning people, hence, and therefore they should pay for their, you know, medical bills?
Well, you just have to look at MAID, M-A-I-D. Medical assistance in dying.
To know what their agenda is.
Their agenda is not to help cure people.
Their agenda is to help them to die so that they won't be a burden on the taxpayer and the economy.
So I don't think that they're benign up there at all.
I think that they are monstrous, frankly.
And those poor Canadian are poor Canadian brethren.
are really in a bad way and they are living under much more tyranny than we are at present.
I don't think that they are.
Look, you know, I just saw a thread on Twitter a couple of days ago on The fluoridation program.
Why do we put fluorine in water?
Where that came from?
And of course it came from junk science.
There was no real solid basis to think that fluoride was going to be beneficial and prevent tooth decay, which it clearly does not.
And yet this became public policy across the country and in many states.
I'm not sure how many states actually did it, but quite a few.
And it's been harmful.
There are negative effects of fluoride intake.
So, when you think about it, I can't think of any public health policy that has been beneficial.
The entire discipline of public health, I think, should go away.
They are just a socialist disaster.
It's a one-size-fits-all every time.
Treating a population as opposed to an individual.
They have minimal medical training.
I mean, the public health programs are...
Clearly for those who were not smart enough to get into medical school.
And they then flaunt their authority to get into a position of power, and they impose these mandates, public health mandates, like the vaccination mandates.
They have not helped.
They have only harmed.
And I cannot think of a single public health policy that's helped.
I mean, virtually everything that they did during the pandemic was a disaster.
And they control the microphone, so even though they screw up royally, it's like there's no repercussion for them, it seems like.
Right. And they are in stark conflict with medical ethics.
Medical ethics which puts the individual first and treats them first.
And they don't care. Doctors should not care about the greater good.
Or society. We can't take care of societal woes in our office.
We can only take care of our patient.
And that's all we should be focused on.
Society will take care of itself.
That's not our concern as clinicians and doctors.
One of my esteemed colleagues and dear friends, Stanley Goldfarb, who's one of my mentors at University of Pennsylvania, where I did my training in nephrology, started an organization called Do No Harm, where he is pushing back against this takeover of medicine to take care of all these social ills and cater to the woke movement,
the diversity movement, and things like Gender transformation, which is, of course, a scientific impossibility and an ethical calamity.
So he's on our side pushing back against that, and I strongly recommend his organization, Do No Harm.
Wow, wow, amazing.
Dr. Amarling, this has actually been a really great episode, very informative.
Is there anything we didn't touch upon that's worth talking about?
Well, I just want to say that I'll put in a shameless plug for the Wellness Company, if I may.
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Most of medicine is about treating either symptoms or numbers with drugs.
That is what modern medicine is, right?
You go to a doctor. They barely do an exam.
They take some blood.
They say, oh, your cholesterol is too high.
You got to take this drug. Well, that drug is going to kill you, okay?
Your cholesterol is fine.
It doesn't cause heart disease.
And instead they're giving you this drug that is going to take it out of you, cause dementia, muscle disease, and heart failure, all sorts of problems with statins.
We're not going to do that. We're going to treat you by getting you to reverse your underlying disease, which in most patients is...
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So our philosophy is disease reversal and then deprescribing.
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This is what, you know, we're trying to do.
We're trying to reinvent medicine to get away from pharma, to get people actually healthy again, get them to reverse their disease and get them off the vast majority of drugs.
That's awesome. That's awesome.
Thank you so much, Dr.
Emerling, for the great work you guys are doing at the Wellness Company and for standing out there on the front lines fighting this insane, I guess, you know, campaign of disinformation lies that have led to this calamity that we are in right now.
Well, my pleasure. And thanks for having me on.
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