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June 18, 2025 - The David Knight Show

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Wed Episode #2035: The Medical Industrial Complex Is Making Us Sicker by Design

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	In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
	It's the David Knight Show.
	The David Knight Show.
	you Good morning and welcome to the David Knight Show.
	I'm your guest host this morning.
	I'm Karen Carpenter from Knights of the Storm and along with myself we have our co-host Jason Barker and Ashley Think, Change, Repeat and we're hopeful that later on in today's show Our fourth member, Angry Tiger, Franco Mate, will join us.
	He's at the veterinarian with his beloved canine companion, Bouncer the Dude Dog.
	So prayers go out to Bouncer the Dude Dog.
	We're honored to be with you this morning as a way of chipping in and helping out the Knight family.
	We're praying for Travis and his family to have a great visit with their family in Texas.
	And that David will enjoy the show today and continue to improve.
	We appreciate so much your giving spirit and wisdom and insight and all the years that you've been with us and served in such a noble and kind, selfless way.
	So we thank you for that, David Knight.
	Today we have pre-recorded on Sunday.
	We wanted to have Dr. LaGuardia live.
	He's an awesome functional medicine doctor, but we ended up recording on the evening of Father's Day.
	We covered quite a few topics, so we're going to go ahead and roll that interview.
	How are you doing this morning, Jason?
	You want to add anything?
	Yeah, I'm doing good.
	For some reason, we didn't kick off live on Kik and the other platforms, but we are on Rumble Live, so I will try to fix that during the stream if I can, if it allows me.
	Okay.
	We are on Rumble Live.
	Okay.
	Good morning, Ashley.
	How are you?
	Good morning, Karen.
	I'm very well.
	I'm very happy to be here with you both today and looking forward to the show.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Yeah, it's really an honor to be here.
	Okay.
	Dr. LaGuardia, Dr. Ralph LaGuardia, author of the Doomsday Book of Medicine.
	All right, here we go.
	Dr. LaGuardia, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. LaGuardia a month or two ago.
	And we also have our co-host Jason Barker and Ashley, think, change, repeat.
	So great to see everybody today.
	Dr. LaGuardia, would you like to fill us in a little bit on your background in case people aren't familiar with you?
	Sure.
	I'm an internist by training.
	I was a surgeon first, then I switched to internal medicine, but I'm triple boarded in internal medicine, bariatrics, which is weight loss, and geriatrics, which is care of the elderly.
	However, for the most part, I'm a functional medicine doctor, meaning that I study how the body functions, and I start all treatment based on...
	I've cured a lot of things over the years by just getting back to the basics using functional medicine and addressing things how it starts.
	But in my practice in Connecticut, I'm integrative.
	I combine traditional and alternative medicine together into a pretty potent model.
	Do you find that you're able to, over time and with some adjustments to supplements and diet and lifestyle, lessen the amount of medication that people tend to take?
	Oh yeah, definitely.
	I've done that many times.
	Sometimes I get patients who come in with what's called polypharmacy, and they've got 35 meds.
	I look at them and I say, this is ridiculous.
	I say, half your problems are interactions between the medications.
	Invariably, it works out.
	In fact, never once has it not worked out.
	My mother is...
	I love my mother.
	She's 87. She just turned 87. A couple of weeks ago, she had a reaction to medication, and she thought she was dying.
	My brother is an EMT paramedic, so he came over and took her vital signs, and she did go to the doctor after she felt better, and the doctor said that she thought that it was a medication interaction, that she had introduced over-the-counter cold medicine to the medication she takes, and she was going to pass out.
	So geriatrics is one of your specialties.
	My mother has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency.
	What would you recommend for something like that?
	It's a tough one.
	There's not much to be done for that because, you know, at that point she's 87 and her vasculature is gone for the most part.
	And so there's not much you could do other than a support hose and things like that.
	Right.
	But for vascular health, It was interesting.
	As medicine evolves, sometimes we stumble into things, but there were, for years, we were treating women with osteopenia and osteoporosis.
	Osteopenia is a stage before osteoporosis with calcium.
	So, oh, you need more calcium for your bones.
	Got to give you more calcium.
	Got to give you more calcium.
	We did that for decades, and it never worked.
	In fact, women were getting atherosclerosis.
	They were getting hardening of the arteries because of the calcium deposition there.
	It wasn't reaching their bones until we realized that vitamin K2, which is relatively unknown.
	Vitamin K, everyone knows, has got to do with clotting.
	That's what the K from.
	It's from German.
	But K2 is interesting.
	It turns out to be key to a lot of health.
	What it does is it actually moves calcium.
	From the blood vessels to the bones and teeth.
	And so what it does, amazingly, is it helps hardening of the arteries and it builds stronger bones and stronger teeth.
	You know, it's all part of that complex of fat-soluble vitamins.
	You know, fat-soluble vitamins are the key to health.
	There is no doubt in my mind.
	And a lot of the diseases that Americans are suffering from are from this low-fat craze.
	Animal fat's really good for you.
	There's no other way, and I'll repeat this for your listeners, there's no other way to get fat-soluble vitamins except from eating animal fat, besides supplementation.
	But you're not going to get that in your diet by trimming the fat off for meat or for your steak or anything like that.
	You're taking away all the vitamins.
	And people do that routinely and ignore it.
	You see, only in the United States do they get cuts of meat with no skin on it, and always, you know, the fat trimmed off.
	In most cultures around the world, they eat from nose to tail.
	They eat the entire animal.
	They eat organs, and there's tons of nutrients there.
	They say the organs are the most nutrient-rich.
	Here's a little fun fact.
	You know, sitting around the table chewing the fat, that term that we use, that was actually something that would happen.
	They'd have it hanging there and, you know, this back in like the, I don't know, maybe 1800s, stuff like that.
	Somebody would come over and it was kind of a treat to sit there in the smoking chair having your conversation and you grab a piece of fat and just chew on the fat.
	There was actually a dentist, Weston Price, who in the 1930s, he was studying his patients and realized that the American patients had narrow, thin faces and crooked teeth and bad teeth.
	And even in family, and he knows families, immigrant families, the immigrants were much healthier.
	They had broad smiles.
	They didn't have crowded teeth.
	They didn't have overbites.
	They didn't have cavities.
	They were in much more vigorously good health.
	However, Once in the same families, those immigrants adopted the American diet, they developed the exact same problems.
	So he, on his own dime, went around the entire world and looked at primitive cultures and studied what they ate.
	And he called it X Factor because he didn't know what it was.
	It was vitamin K2 that made the difference in all of these diets and the other fat-soluble vitamins.
	And he realized that fat was where it was at.
	It's so true.
	I mean, I see people all the time with bad eczema and stuff.
	I said, God, you got to get on fat.
	What do you mean fat for my skin?
	I go, yeah, for your skin.
	And cure them and stuff and give them zinc and other things.
	You have to be a little bit careful with zinc.
	It's great stuff to supplement, but you have to supplement copper with it.
	It causes copper depletion over time.
	The great news now is that there are so many supplement companies.
	A lot of them are junk, but a lot of them...
	In the right ratio, you need it.
	You need about 15 to 20 to 1. You don't need much copper.
	You only need a little bit, but you need it long term.
	And so it's great.
	There's a lot of supplements.
	For example, vitamin D comes with magnesium and K2 now.
	You need magnesium to process vitamin D or it doesn't work.
	And what happens is if you don't give K2 with it, you get too much calcium in the wrong spots.
	And so K2 helps mobilize because vitamin D causes calcium absorption.
	And so you're raising it, but you want it to go to the right spot.
	You want to go to the teeth and bones where it belongs.
	So if you supplement it with D with K2 and magnesium, that works great together.
	Yeah, I won't buy D3 without...
	The Wesson Price Foundation, they've worked with Children's Health Defense over the years.
	It's a great resource.
	They have a lot of several recipes for homemade formula using bone broth or different types of things if the mom doesn't count nurse or the baby's adopted or whatever.
	So I use them, you know, fairly often as a resource.
	And they also provide resources to where to find Good quality food from co-ops in your area.
	They're a great service.
	And those pictures of the Native peoples eating their healthy diets, those are amazing pictures.
	It's mind-boggling when you see it.
	There's actually a cool book called Jaws, written by a dentist, and it's about facial structure.
	And what he realized was, once again, Americans have a crowded face a lot of them at work.
	We need braces for that reason.
	Besides the vitamin K2 and the other things, the force of mastication, the force of chewing, helps your facial structure.
	We're the only society in the world to give kids this baby food, this mush to eat.
	Oh, right.
	And consequently, A, it's not good.
	There's a whole bunch of junk in it, you know, besides heavy metals and all kinds of crazy things they put in there that you wouldn't expect.
	But in addition to which, the act of chewing actually causes the face to broaden and be stronger and square the things you would expect normally in a face because the actual facial structure will change over time.
	I've seen it on YouTube commercials and stuff.
	That's it.
	Is that it?
	Yeah.
	And, you know, I don't subscribe.
	Jaws of size.
	Is that yours?
	Actually, I don't like it.
	I don't subscribe to evolution at all, but there was one theory in evolution that once we created fire, when we were cavemen, we had smaller brains, bigger jaws, because we had to eat the unprocessed, uncooked flesh.
	But once we created fire and cooked it down to where it was easier to eat, Then our jaws got smaller, and the muscles that run up got smaller because they didn't need to be so big, and that's what allowed our brains to grow, you know, the cranium to develop larger.
	Now, I don't believe in all that, but there's science behind it.
	There's a theory behind it, you know?
	I go more for the theory of omega-3s influencing brain production.
	We were eating along the coast and eating shellfish and different foods a lot of times and getting high omega-3s, which helped brain production since the brain is mostly fatty acids and protein and stuff.
	There's a lot of evolution and thought currently about Alzheimer's and other things.
	That's really fascinating stuff.
	I don't know if you guys know about type 3 diabetes.
	I've heard it.
	Alzheimer's rebranded as that.
	It's true.
	You know, Alzheimer's turns out, well, most dimensions turn out to be energy problems in the brain.
	The brain doesn't have the energy it needs to properly function.
	Once again, as a functional medicine doctor, I love that going right back to basics.
	But it's interesting because the brain has two systems for energy.
	The rest of the body has glucose that it uses, but in addition to which, it uses fatty acids and medium and short-chain fatty acids as a backup.
	And so what I do in patients who have early dementia is I make sure that they limit their glucose intake.
	It's not going to help them.
	It's only going to build up.
	Because what happens is the brain, when the mitochondria don't have enough energy, they misform proteins in the brain.
	And those misformed proteins are useless.
	Protein function, for the listeners that don't know, is totally based on morphology, on the shape of the protein.
	That determines its function.
	a misshapen protein has no receptor to bind to and has no function and so in the brain tau proteins tau and amyloid builds up builds up within the brain because the mitochondria And eventually, this buildup kills the neuron and damages the brain.
	But as the brain has less and less energy over time, it kind of optimizes what it will use.
	So in the beginning, when a patient has dementia, they're a little pleasantly befuddled and stuff.
	As time progresses, they shut down less and less.
	Their memory keeps going.
	Eventually, they're just...
	Early in Alzheimer's, I put patients on medium-chain triglycerides, and that works very well because it provides the alternate energy source their brain needs, and so it circumvents the type 3 diabetes that's going on in the brain.
	Follow me.
	Last time you recommended that everybody take some coconut oil every day.
	Yeah.
	Well, coconut oil is medium-chain triglycerides.
	Right.
	That's why, yeah.
	And you can buy the MCT in drinks and in powders and capsules.
	In capsules, right.
	Or you can just use some coconut oil.
	I used coconut oil to cook with.
	Let me ask you this, Doc.
	I know we did an episode on brain fog in the foxhole.
	It's been a couple years now, I think.
	Would that help with just general brain fog, like people aren't developing dementia?
	I mean, brain fog, I think, could be an indicator that you might be in danger of going into that dementia or Alzheimer's type thing.
	Would that help people?
	yeah a lot of things cause cause brain fog so it's really hard to say because most of it's temporary you know um yeah so what i do is yeah i give them But there's also, I put them on Fiji water.
	Yeah.
	You know, Fiji water.
	I always have it for my grandson.
	Right.
	It's the best water on the planet because it's so high in silicone.
	Right.
	And silicone oxide binds up aluminum.
	And a lot of dementia is aluminum accumulation in the brain.
	You see, aluminum has absolutely no function in the body.
	There's no need for aluminum.
	There's no body process that utilizes aluminum at all.
	And the body doesn't know how to process it.
	So it's toxic for us.
	But we are swimming in a sea of aluminum because it's heavily in vaccines.
	It's an adjuvant in vaccines because it increases the function of the vaccine.
	And they cut it a lot with that, but it's in deodorants and a ton of things, things we apply to ourselves, not to mention getting it from aluminum cans.
	And over there, what's also in what they're spraying in the sky.
	Yeah, it's in the soil, big time.
	Fun fact, aluminum, as we know it, as we use it in industry today, does not exist in nature.
	And that's why, you know, it comes from bauxite.
	It has to be.
	So whoever invented aluminum was a genius because they figured out how to take this bauxite stuff and make a lightweight metal.
	It's not an alloy.
	It's an actual pure, pure thing.
	But yeah, I think that's why the body.
	It doesn't like it.
	There's no receptors for it.
	There's nothing for it because it didn't exist in nature.
	Right.
	But, you know, with the aluminum, you have to drink a liter and a half of Fiji water a day.
	And it takes about three or four months to have any effect.
	However, studies show it's about 45 to 46% improvement in patients with moderate Alzheimer's, which is pretty impressive.
	There's no medication that does anything, by the way.
	And they don't drink a liter and a half a day, you know, but for a small child, just a few ounces a day, you know, is helpful.
	Yeah.
	Fresh water is key.
	I mean, people underestimate hydrating themselves with fresh water.
	It's very important for you.
	But getting back to your brain fog, I just want to mention one thing.
	What I do is I give patients methylated B-complex.
	And the reason I use methylated as opposed to regular B-complex is MTHFR mutations.
	42% of the population can't process B vitamins, and so they're toxic for them.
	It's not only that, they can't process them.
	Amazing to me that the cardiologists never check for this.
	And it drives me out of my mind.
	I send the patients all the time.
	I go, by the way, they have an MTHFR.
	They're positive.
	They look at me like, we need a doctor.
	But it's so important because it causes elevated homocysteine levels as an intermediate because they can't process it, and homocysteine damages blood vessels in the heart.
	So in families that have MTHFR mutations, there's a very high incidence of hypertension and heart disease and atherosclerosis in those patients.
	And it's so cheap and so easy to circumvent.
	It costs pennies a day to take methylated B-complex.
	And so all patients that come in, I give them with Alzheimer's or early dementia stuff, I give them monthly methylated B-12 shots.
	In addition to which, putting them on methylated B-complex every day.
	Give them the feed you water.
	I give them the medium-chain triglycerides and take it from there.
	And, you know, success rate, spotty, but better than zero would you get with Aricept on the medications that for years patients take and do absolutely nothing.
	I think a lot of that success may have to do with diet and the family's willingness to...
	So, my apologies for interrupting.
	I just wanted to ask a question, kind of getting back to your discussion on the importance of meat.
	If you would do a cholesterol myth-busting right now, because I know that a lot of people, there's a lot of false information out there that People are told, like, your cholesterol is too high, you need to be on a statin.
	So I just wanted to see if you would cover that in talking about the cholesterol conversation, what people need to know, and then the damage that taking statins can do to them.
	And I have a follow-up with that, too.
	Okay.
	Yeah, the cholesterol myth.
	Another thing that drives me crazy.
	Ansel Keys, who studied this originally, where this came from in the late 50s and early 60s, studied 28 countries with his theory that cholesterol led to heart problems.
	He threw out 21 of those countries because they didn't fit the data and just presented the seven countries he had.
	And that started the whole cholesterol myth and saturated fat myth that did endless harm.
	Endless harm to the human body and to Americans' health, not to mention their pocketbooks.
	In addition to which, statins suck.
	Statins cause dementia.
	They're just dangerous drugs.
	Once again, the cardiologists, I don't know why they don't do this either.
	They don't give CO...
	If you're going to give a statin, at least give CoQ10 with it because the pathway for statins...
	And COQ10 is essential for energy production in the cells.
	Consequently, the cells that require the most energy need it.
	Muscles, heart, brain, things like that need COQ10 to function properly.
	It's fat-soluble as well.
	have to give it with fat just like a d e and k where you don't absorb them but um yeah and so i put all patients who the cardiologists insist go on statins and the patients I say, okay, at least take 200 milligrams of COQ10 once a day with fat.
	But they routinely, they should just administer them together.
	By the way, I give Cunol because that is, but it's not just an advertisement.
	It is the best absorbed COQ10.
	And with all medications, it's all about absorption.
	It doesn't matter how much you give.
	It's how much you absorb and use.
	And so it's so important to have the right form of medications.
	And can you explain to us a little bit, what is the mechanism that specifically causes the dementia associated with taking statins?
	And I feel like a lot of people will be put on a statin and then they start having memory problems.
	But because we are not...
	dysfunction.
	That's what it's all about.
	It interferes with the mitochondria, which are the powerhouses for the cell.
	They make all the energy.
	So they make ATP, adenosine triphosphate.
	That is the energy molecule.
	That's the currency your body uses for energy everywhere.
	Things that interfere with that production, such as statins, once again, we get into the energy balance in the brain.
	It's all about energy.
	And that's what Alzheimer's is all about.
	You know, other than patients who have multiple infarcts, they've got strokes, multiple strokes, and that leads to dementia problems.
	But aside from mechanical stuff, the disease of the brain is an energy problem.
	So if you have a patient that comes to you that has a high, what do you consider a high cholesterol?
	If you order a cholesterol panel, what results?
	Alarm you and which results to you are okay, and how do you fix it?
	I'm not a big believer in the cholesterol thing, so I don't push it very much on my patients.
	However, there are patients with familial lipid problems, hereditary, and that wind up with very high cholesterols, and those you have to treat.
	There's a gene mutation that some people have trouble with that, isn't there?
	Right.
	Yeah, it's familial hypercholesterol immune school.
	But I look at the total cholesterol HDL ratio, and I want that to be less than five.
	If that's less than five, I'm okay with things for the most part.
	Occasionally, if I have a patient that has isolated very high triglycerides, I'll treat that using a prescription Vaskepa, which is fish oil.
	It's pharmaceuticals, great fish oil.
	That works great for that.
	Also, by the way, it helps their arthritis.
	It helps a lot of other things when you give it to them, their skin and their brain and everything else.
	But, you know, that's the way I do it for the most part.
	That's when my cousin asked the question.
	He wanted me to ask you, how does he...
	Yeah, well, that helps it, but exercise helps raise HDL a little bit.
	Red wine helps a little bit.
	Ask an Italian doctor, what do you get for an answer?
	Red wine.
	The other thing I look for is LP little a.
	LP little a is fascinating.
	Linus Pauling got a Nobel Prize for it.
	Excuse me, I know a patent for it.
	And when he devised this, because he found that LP little a is the key to heart disease.
	And what happens is LP little a is what the body uses to patch damaged blood vessels, the endothelial, the lining of a blood vessel.
	And so when that's elevated, you know that there's endothelial dysfunction.
	It's not working.
	The blood vessels aren't working properly and they're being damaged.
	And the body patches it with that.
	So to prevent that, That damage.
	You have to improve your collagen.
	It's all about collagen.
	Because collagen is the structural protein for the whole body.
	So if you have not performing collagen, you don't have enough of it, it declines as we age naturally.
	But you can easily supplement collagen.
	You know, what Jason alluded to earlier, eating bone broth and things like that.
	Collagen is great.
	It's full of minerals and collagen and stuff.
	But you have to take vitamin C with it.
	Collagen without vitamin C doesn't work.
	It activates it.
	So I put patients on who have high LP little A's.
	I put them on collagen, 5 grams, 3 times a day, and vitamin C with that, usually about 1,000 milligrams 3 times a day.
	And that will take 6 months to a year, but when they come back, their LP little A's will be low.
	And so that works very well for heart disease.
	That, along with K2, because the other piece for heart disease and blood vessel health is nitric oxide.
	You know, nitric oxide is so important for your health.
	I wrote a substack on it about a month ago that goes pretty much into it.
	But what happens is the blood vessel itself produces nitric oxide, and that's what allows them to dilate.
	And stretch and allow more blood flow.
	As the blood vessel wall ages over time and gets atherosclerosis and heart disease, that nitrogen oxide production drops right off.
	But there are ways to circumvent it.
	You can take, if you take dark green leafy vegetables and you chew them well, However, there's a caveat there.
	If you're taking proton pump inhibitors to lower the acid production in your stomach, that blocks the production of nitric oxide.
	Or if you use mouthwash, you'll kill the bacteria that are used.
	So, I have a question, Karen.
	I hate to jump in, but we got to do the disclaimer that the David Knight Show is not medical advice, right?
	Dr. LaGuardia is a doctor.
	He is a doctor.
	That's right.
	So the question I have for the doc is when you give like on a show like this, when you're giving us this, this useful information that people may not know, you're kind of giving us a breakdown of how the body works and maybe, They can feel it.
	If they take this information to their doctor and their doctor refuses, I guess that's the question.
	Do people get a good response from their doctor or is most doctors on that set path of medications?
	Are they going to be willing to listen to this and maybe try some of these things and run the proper test to see if it's working?
	Yeah, I mean, yeah, the advice I give is general medical information.
	It's not specific and shouldn't be acted upon or taken as medical advice because I'm not their doctor.
	However, once again, getting back to functional medicine, I'm teaching them how things work and how to correct those things.
	All the things I recommend.
	Are harmless for the most part.
	They're natural.
	They have no side effects except beneficial stuff.
	But unfortunately, most doctors, although they're very well-intentioned, and they went into medicine with great intentions in mind, and they still think they're doing the best job for their patients, just don't know about this stuff.
	I go to medical meetings frequently, and I bring my wife.
	She just says the same thing to me every time.
	I get up at the end and I go, well, by the way, and I give them my opinion about stuff.
	Very polite to me.
	No one disparages anything I say.
	They don't even know what I'm talking about 90% of the time.
	And it's crickets.
	And my wife says, why do you bother?
	It's because I have to tell them.
	They have to hear it somewhere.
	So getting back to what you said, if they go back to see their doctors, I don't know.
	I'd say most of them won't be well-received.
	And I'm finding also, I know my mom, her primary moved and she really loved her primary.
	She felt like she listened to her.
	And so she had a cardiologist she respected.
	So she asked him some general health questions.
	He said, I can't comment.
	I cannot comment on those things.
	So I think there are a lot of doctors now, especially since the COVID era, that are sticking to the standard of care and to the prescribed pharmaceutical.
	You know, of reasoning, and they are worried about venturing off.
	I know if you have cancer, I'm in some cancer groups, and a lot of people are seeing results with things like fenbendazole, ivermectin, high-dose vitamin C. It's unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	But then there's always a big discussion in these groups with thousands of cancer patients.
	Do I tell my oncologist that I'm taking these supplements?
	Do I tell my oncologist I'm taking fenbendazole?
	And the vast majority of the cancer patients agreed to not tell their oncologist because their oncologist will refuse to treat them or will tell them that, no, you should not take any vitamins at all, but it's okay to eat whatever you want to eat.
	But don't take vitamins and make sure you show up for your chemotherapy.
	So there's a lot of people that are starting to rethink some of these things and take a little bit more responsibility for their own health.
	Yeah, you definitely have to.
	But getting back to the doctors, I mean, in their defense, we're haunted by malpractice lawyers who just prey on us.
	Everyone's been sued, including me.
	I've been in practice 40 years.
	You don't get away without being sued a couple times by some kook somewhere.
	And it makes you gun shy.
	It shakes you up.
	I had a woman who had breast cancer.
	I found the lump.
	And I said, dude, you've got a lump in your breast.
	She says, I know.
	I had that biopsy that was negative.
	I said, great.
	Okay, good.
	Wasn't true.
	And she got pregnant.
	she couldn't get pregnant and i helped her get pregnant because i said to her she was It's so uptight.
	And I said, listen to me.
	You're trying too hard to get pregnant.
	Here's what you do.
	Next time you're ready to ovulate, book a hotel with your husband, a motel.
	Go away for the weekend.
	Get a Johnny Mathis tape.
	I said, get some wine.
	She got pregnant the first time.
	She came back.
	But unfortunately, she died later from breast cancer.
	And they sued me and sued everyone else.
	And I said, hey, I found the lump.
	What do you want?
	What do you want me to do?
	I found it.
	She told me it was negative.
	And I still spent three months in court.
	Had to close my practice every day for three months with four other doctors.
	And they just tortured us all day, every day.
	You know, it was terrible.
	We won in the end, but two of those doctors quit practicing.
	Wow.
	It's traumatic.
	It's traumatic stuff.
	Yeah.
	Actually, I...
	Yeah, I had a topic.
	When we come back, Karen, can we talk about the, we're talking about, I want to ask the doctor about fertility rates in the West, and we were just now talking about, you know.
	Well, that's perfect because Doc just did a sub stack on DHEA.
	Yeah, right.
	So that'll fly right in.
	All right.
	All right.
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	So let's talk.
	Let me go ahead and do some plug-in while he's out.
	So the doc has a book, and we'll be talking about that book here in a little bit.
	If you go over to theknightsofthestorm.com, make sure you put the nights of the storm, because if you just do nights of the storm, that's like a motorcycle club.
	They own that already, so I had to be on there.
	You only get ass kicked, right, Jason?
	Yeah.
	They're actually kind of a charity club, so they're pretty good.
	I looked them up.
	But yeah, go over to thenightsofthestorm.com.
	Go to the very center tab here up top that says Read.
	Scroll on down.
	Doc's got three books out.
	I have one right here.
	This one, I do want to talk about this one.
	This is an amazing book.
	I actually found today, Doc, online somebody that you probably don't even know did a review of your book and found it to be the most amazing book that they ever bought.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, it's about a three-year-old review.
	Anyway, yeah, scroll on down.
	You'll see we've got Infected by Dr. Ralph LaGuardia.
	We've got Doomsday Book of Medicine and the Bible of Alternative Medicine.
	All three available on Amazon.
	You can go to our website, click on it.
	It will take you to the Amazon link where you can purchase it.
	Also, if you go to the bottom here, let me get back to where we were.
	Oh, my goodness.
	All the way at the bottom of our read, you're going to see a link to Dr. LaGuardia's substack, which we're getting ready to cover an article that he did recently.
	Click on that.
	It's going to take you to the Doc's substack.
	I just actually became a paid subscriber today, Doc.
	Yeah, thank you very much for that.
	I saw that just a while ago.
	All right.
	Back to you, Karen.
	Well, let's cover DHEA and infertility that we're seeing.
	That ties right in with long COVID, I think, or the effects of the COVID vaccines, possibly.
	So just whatever you'd like to talk about, about fertility, DHEA.
	That type of thing.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, DHEA is one of the master hormones of the body.
	And it's the precursors to the sex hormones.
	And so without DHEA, you can't produce estrogen and progesterone, testosterone, to a very lesser degree, progesterone.
	And so the...
	I have a lot of patients who supplement with it to raise their testosterone levels and their estrogen levels.
	However, it's kind of tricky.
	I had just a woman the other day who had she was doing it on her own and she said, will you run my levels?
	I ran her hormone levels and her testosterone was 10 times normal.
	I said, what's going on with you?
	I said, are you on DHEA?
	She said, yes.
	I said, we've got to lower that.
	It's not without Some danger involved with it.
	There is a massive drop in fertility worldwide.
	It's not just in the United States, not just in Western countries.
	It's in Asia, it's in Africa, it's everywhere.
	There's also a precipitous drop in male sperm counts.
	Sperm counts are plummeting.
	And the quality of sperm.
	And the quality of sperm, right, exactly.
	It's even becoming a challenge in the porn industry.
	All over the world, it's a problem.
	That's leading to massive spikes in infertility.
	However, one of the greatest causes of it in the West, especially, has been the COVID vaccination.
	We know that the spike protein preferentially goes to a gonad, to testes, and to Ovaries, and causes an inordinate amount of damage there.
	You know, despite protein overall, long-haul COVID is becoming so prevalent if you look for it.
	In my practice, I have a ton of patients with it who are forced to be vaccinated, most of them for their jobs and for various reasons, and against my advice, took the vaccine.
	The vaccine will probably go down as a truly existential threat to mankind when the numbers finally all come in.
	Substack, once again, is ahead of everyone on it.
	Dr. Mackis has done a great job.
	McCullough, there's three or four people on there who just, Midwest doctors, a few of them, who just do great work.
	And report on the unbelievable amount of side effects and disease that we're seeing.
	Autoimmune disease is off the wall.
	Autoimmune is pretty much a silent disease initially.
	It takes a while before people know they have it.
	And so there's been an explosion of Hashimoto's, an explosion of rheumatoid arthritis problems.
	All these autoimmune-related diseases, immunosuppression overall.
	But the fertility things are off the wall.
	And on top of them, we have the nightmare of turbo cancers.
	Right.
	Turbo cancers are so named because you die within weeks to a few months of diagnosis.
	A young male is getting testicular cancer.
	It means world-class athletes die within two weeks of getting diagnosed.
	And this is all over the place.
	Did you see the article, the study that said that 60% of The eggs, the primordial eggs that would eventually mature are affected by mRNA vaccines, 60%.
	And I was wondering if that would also translate into the, if a mother woman is carrying a baby, does that translate to the babies, the little girl's fetuses, also her ovaries?
	No one knows yet about that part.
	I do have a question, Doc.
	A lot of this stuff like the immune problems.
	We saw this early just by the way this thing they advertised it would work even before it was released.
	We talked about some of these problems.
	A lot of them we didn't see coming.
	Some of them we kind of predicted.
	My concern is, is this just the COVID mRNA shot or is it mRNA in general?
	And then what's your thoughts on the cell?
	Amplifying that last year, I want to say around October or September, October, some time frame in Japan, they authorized the self-amplifying mRNA, which is supposed to, you get vaccinated and then that in turn vaccinates me within proximity.
	And then there was a big, they're calling it some name, I can't remember, some celestial name, a new huge project just approved.
	To develop mRNA vaccines.
	Yeah, mRNA vaccines, if you look at the history of them, have been an absolute disaster.
	Fifteen years prior to COVID, they tried and tried.
	And what happened?
	Every lab animal died.
	Right.
	Every one of them.
	Not 10%, not 50%.
	Oh, yeah, side effects, all kinds of crazy stuff.
	So they, okay, we can't have this in humans.
	And then they go in COVID.
	And they circumvent all that and go, okay, forget the animal studies.
	We're going right to the vaccine, and these will be human studies for the most part.
	And lo and behold, here's where we are now.
	We're actually young girls looking wisely, looking for unvaccinated men as sperm donors or fathers for their children.
	The promise was initially that the messenger RNA would never affect the DNA.
	Because how things work is DNA produces RNA, produces proteins, and then you go from there.
	And this, by reverse transcriptase and other methods, was able to reverse that, enter the nucleus, and combine with the DNA.
	So consequently, people who are vaccinated forever have their DNA changed.
	And combined with this virus.
	I brought this up with my primary when I was battling the shot in the army.
	I asked him about reverse transcription.
	And he said, "Oh, that could never happen." And I'm like, "But look, I have this paper here.
	It's an actual scientific document.
	It's a research paper.
	It's peer reviewed.
	And they say that this is how it works scientifically as Dr. Google." Right, right.
	It definitely has happened.
	Now, that being said, I love virology, being the nerd that I am, but the study of virus is real interesting because viruses, over time, I think, are how we evolve.
	More than mutations and things like that.
	I think, you know, the mutation theory was always kind of strange.
	You know, you mutate, and lo and behold, this new cell develops that has these qualities that it didn't have before.
	You know, the odds of that happening are so astronomically against you.
	However, acquiring viruses, viral DNA, and incorporating that into the human genome has happened forever.
	15% of our genes are viral.
	15%.
	I'm not talking about COVID, before COVID.
	15% were viral.
	Problem with COVID is it's an engineered virus.
	And so it was made by gain of function.
	That's finally coming out now.
	They're finally saying, oh, yes, we realize now that, you know, when the CIA first studied it, when it first happened, COVID came out, that was their deduction that this was not a natural virus.
	And they could tell by the engineering on it.
	In fact, interesting today, I just saw a headline today that they seized Fauci's computer and emails and his cell phone.
	So they're investigating him, which is good.
	That son has caused more problems than anyone in history.
	A guy who's never worn a stethoscope in his life giving us crazy advice.
	I mean, look back at some of the madness.
	At the height of COVID, they were closing swimming pools.
	Filling in skate parks with sand.
	A swimming pool.
	You're out in the sunlight.
	You're soaking in chlorine and heat.
	Very few viruses that can survive that triple whammy, much less respiratory viruses can't survive it at all.
	And they ignored it.
	It was my argument during COVID with the powers that be who tried to crush me repeatedly.
	I mean, I was a major target fellow because...
	I'm not doing this.
	And they sent guys from infectious disease down to my office and debated me for three hours.
	And, you know, we didn't convince each other.
	I didn't convince them.
	They didn't convince me.
	It was a standoff.
	But I said to them, I said, look, why is this virus different?
	Every virus ever mutates in one direction.
	Less lethal, more contagious.
	Virus wants market share.
	The virus does not want to kill you.
	It doesn't want to kill the host.
	Right.
	It wants to be spread.
	All it cares about is finding a new host.
	It has no malevolence towards you or anything.
	And so, for an example, COVID, when it first came out, the original SARS came out, it was very lethal.
	It had 45% lethality.
	And for that reason, people got so sick, they went to bed and died.
	It didn't go anywhere.
	That was a dead end for that virus.
	It didn't spread at all.
	A virus needs you out.
	A virus needs you circulating.
	It needs you among other people.
	So everyone was saying initially during COVID, well, this is going to be horrible.
	This virus is going to get more and more lethal.
	And I said, no, it's not.
	I said, how could it?
	If it gets more lethal, it'll make people sick.
	They'll go to bed and it won't spread.
	I said, it's not going to get more lethal.
	It's going to get less lethal, but more contagious.
	And history has proved me right.
	That's exactly what happened.
	Right now, COVID is a head cold.
	For the most part, you know, slight cough.
	Unless you're really immunocompromised, it's not going to hurt you at all.
	In fact, I would dare say most people don't even know they have it.
	You know, I'm sure I've been exposed to it a million times.
	That's interesting you should say that, Doc, because we're seeing now after people have gotten, you know, their two-round immunization for COVID and then they've gotten their 10%.
	Those are the people that are getting COVID over and over again, or what they're calling COVID.
	But that kind of shows that they are immunocompromised.
	And that's what I'm seeing.
	I'm seeing people that have not got the COVID shot not get sick.
	I didn't get it.
	I get sick occasionally.
	Usually it's food poisoning.
	When I cook for myself, you know, my wife has to cook for me or I'll poison myself, right?
	But anyway, yeah, I'm seeing the people that had got the shot are the ones that are getting sick over and over and over again, whether it be COVID or the flu or whatever.
	They just seem to be more susceptible to different things.
	And I've also noticed people aging.
	They seem to age so fast now.
	And I don't know what that's about.
	Maybe we can talk about that a little bit.
	Gard Goldsmith, who you're familiar with, he has symptoms of long COVID.
	He asked if there's any new science or anything cutting edge that you're finding or any new advice.
	I'm actually his doctor.
	Actually, I mentioned it in the article.
	A group out of Italy came up with augmented NAC.
	NAC is N-acetylcysteine.
	That becomes glutathione.
	And glutathione is the master antioxidant for the body.
	And they came up with this, what they call augmented NAC, that eliminates 99% of the spike protein from the blood.
	99%.
	Where do we find this?
	You have to go right to there.
	It's in my article.
	The link to it on Substack.
	If you look at my article, how to treat long-haul COVID.
	But getting back to COVID, what I do in my practice is there's no test.
	For long-haul COVID.
	And so people, most people ignore it.
	Most doctors don't even recognize it as a problem.
	And what happens is in my practice, I check for patients.
	I check D-dimer levels, and I check fiber and degradation products, and I check COVID antibodies.
	And so what I have found is that 62% of the vaccinated patients have elevated D-dimer levels.
	And D-dimer means that there's clotting going on.
	In this case, it's at the capillary level.
	And because I spent months looking for blood clots in their lungs, doing CTAs on them, and also checking their legs for DVTs, and they really didn't find any.
	But their D-dimers kept going up.
	And so, you know, eventually those clots are going to propagate backwards from the capillaries to larger and larger blood vessels until they compromise them.
	And where do we find this?
	On autopsies.
	The undertakers can't believe it.
	They're seeing these rubbery clots extending all through people's bodies that they never saw before as evidence of that.
	But what I do in my practice is I D-dimer, I check for D-dimer in fibrin degradation products.
	They're positive, well, one or the other, mostly.
	Fibrin is never positive without D-dimer.
	But I also check for antibodies, and I find that, you know, we've been told that their antibodies after a vaccine will spike.
	Three months and then go down to a low level and give them long-term immunity, which it never did.
	It's not true.
	Their antibodies, the Quest Lab measures it as a level up to 2,500.
	Routinely, patients are greater than 2,500 for years now.
	I've been checking them in their eye.
	So to treat this clotting, there's three ways you can treat it naturally.
	And I do a substack on that as well, one way back.
	There's three enzymes that you can use.
	One's called ceratopeptidase.
	That's made, interestingly enough, from silkworms.
	That's how they eat their way out of their cocoon.
	It releases that enzyme.
	The second one is natokinase.
	Natokinase comes from natto.
	It's a Japanese dish, fermented dish of soybeans.
	It uses a special bacteria that produces this enzyme.
	And that's the one most commonly used by people and then by doctors that do treat this stuff.
	Very few, but, you know, functional doctors like myself.
	And then there is lumbrokinase made from earthworms.
	That's the one I use.
	Lumbrokinase is 30 times stronger than natokinase and 300 times stronger than So what I do is give them lumbrokinase once a day on an empty stomach.
	You have to take it on an empty stomach enzymes, otherwise it'll work with digesting the food and not doing anything.
	And I watch them.
	I check their D-dimer levels, and I keep raising it until I get their D-dimer going down.
	But now I just recently discovered this augmented NAC.
	So the problem is that even the one source for it is in Italy, and there's a couple of distributors in America, but there's been such a spike of interest in it because it works so well that they can't make it fast enough.
	I ordered it three months ago and just got it last week, and they only sent me a limit.
	They sent me a quarter of what I ordered.
	They said, this will hold you over.
	We'll get you more, we promise.
	But they're going to ramp up production for sure because it's working so well.
	It took off in England first, and now it's finally spread here.
	What did they do to enhance it?
	Is it more something along the lines of a methylation or something?
	No, no.
	There's a physicist there who has a way of aligning the cells.
	Normally, the NAC, they said, is random in its orientation.
	And they align them all somehow in one direction.
	It tells you about it on the website.
	And that raises it from about 10% to 12% effective to 99%.
	And once again, all these things that I'm telling the audience about have nothing but beneficial side effects.
	You take NAC, you're boosting your immune system.
	You boost your immune system.
	I mean, people get sick, and you'll see it in the same family.
	You get the flu, your wife doesn't, or vice versa.
	It all depends on your immunity.
	That's the wall that a bacteria virus has to climb and surpass to infect you.
	And so that's why when I wrote Infected, I teach you how to treat every problem from head to toe without pharmaceuticals.
	There's ways you could do it to boost your immune system.
	And as a functional medicine doctor, I go into each organ system and say, okay, the kidney, here's what you do.
	You know, each one, it's easier.
	And that's the way we should be treating things.
	You know, the other thing that amazes me is that the United States never took off on bacteriophages.
	You know what bacteriophages are?
	Bacteriophages are viruses that eat bacteria.
	And they're specific for each kind of bacteria.
	It doesn't do anything unless it only kills that bacteria.
	You can take them, and if you don't have that bacteria, it doesn't do anything to you.
	If you have it, it'll wipe it out.
	And prior to antibiotics, that was the thrust of research.
	Everyone was looking at bacteriophages and seeing, you know, and there's no resistance with them.
	It kills that specific bacteria.
	So it always amazed me that, you know, we abandoned all that after World War II.
	We went headlong into antibiotics.
	And consequently, that's where we are now.
	We've got this major problem with worldwide resistance and stuff.
	You know, it's because antibiotics are widely overprescribed by doctors.
	Including myself, I'm sure I use a lot more times.
	I'm not sure, and I give an antibiotic, hoping it's a bacterial infection, and it might be a virus, in which case it does nothing.
	And worldwide, a lot of countries, patients can just go into a pharmacy and say, give me some penicillin or give me this, and they'll give it to them.
	And so that produces resistance big time.
	In addition to which, the factory farms here in the United States It has all kinds of resistant bacteria in there.
	Well, we also gotta think about the gut as well.
	'Cause you're talking about- Yeah, go ahead, Karen.
	I'm sorry.
	Well, I thought maybe we could take a break and then maybe talk about gut probiotics, the rebuilding the gut, SIBO.
	I was listening to Dr. William Davis, who wrote Wheat Belly.
	And he talks a lot about forming your own yogurt-type fermented Food to rebuild your gut bacteria and kill SIBO which he feels that SIBO which is small intestine bacterial overgrowth he feels like that has a lot to do with coronary artery disease as well as having imbalanced gut and
	bacterial overgrowth which would kind of seem to play into the bacteriophage the whole scenario so shall we take a break and then maybe Ashley would you You have a topic you'd like to do or we could talk about the gut?
	I definitely have a topic that I would like to talk about for sure.
	Okay.
	All right.
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	Welcome back to The David Knight Show.
	Today on Knights of the Storm, we're co-hosting for David, and it's an honor to do so.
	And we're sending prayers to the Knight family, David.
	And Ashley, go ahead and explore a topic with Dr. LaGuardia.
	Shoot, Ashley, give me your best shot.
	Perfect.
	Thank you so much.
	Yeah, so something that I wanted to see if we could expound on a little bit more is SSRIs.
	And maybe even if you feel like it, getting into a little bit of the psychological community in general.
	But I feel like...
	It was the Tucker Carlson episode that he did recently.
	And they were talking about, say, 66 million Americans.
	And that number includes like 6 million children that are on some sort of, you know, psychological medication.
	And so I was just hoping that we could talk about, you know, a little bit of how, like if someone were to come into your office and say, you know, I'm exhibiting.
	You know, how would you approach that?
	And then how does that differ from what is normally done to get people, like when they come into the office, normally in a traditional setting?
	Yeah.
	Well, that's a good question.
	Well, yeah, SSRIs are heavily over-prescribed, in my opinion.
	Like ADD meds in children are heavily over-prescribed as well.
	Another tragedy.
	But this generation, this young generation, patients 20 to 40, amaze me in the amount of mental illness there is.
	It saddens me.
	I mean, I'm always amazed new patients come in, and they're very proud of it.
	You know, they come in, there's no stigma attached to it at all.
	Badge of honor.
	It was a badge of honor.
	I've gone bipolar, I'm bisexual, I have ADD.
	And I'm like, okay.
	And, you know, you see people, you see these young girls, they're beautiful.
	And they've got good careers and stuff, and they're depressed.
	I'm thinking, you've got money, you've got a good career, you're healthy, what the hell are you depressed about?
	There's just this epidemic of depression.
	And, you know, I prescribe a lot of SSRIs.
	You've got to use them short-term.
	But what I try to do is a twofold method.
	I tried to, at one part, promote brain health.
	And what I find is that these patients lack suffocacy.
	They lack magnesium, first of all.
	They're universally low in magnesium.
	And the best way to check that is not through a regular serum magnesium level.
	It's worthless.
	You want to know what's going on inside the cell.
	That's where magnesium works.
	And serum doesn't mean anything.
	And so I check red blood cell magnesium levels.
	So if you go to your doctor, tell them you want an RBC magnesium.
	And Quest does those.
	And that range is 4 to 6.4 in those.
	And I find almost everyone's low.
	They have magnesiums there in the gutter.
	Once again, they've got low vitamin D levels.
	They've got low iodine levels.
	Iodine is universally ignored.
	And every cell in your body needs iodine.
	There's receptors for every cell in your body.
	It's interesting.
	Once again, get back to functional medicine.
	What do cells need?
	They need magnesium.
	They need iodine.
	They need B vitamins.
	They need vitamin C. There's certain things that they all need.
	And you have to first, I try to, is to replete those.
	We know magnesium is fascinating.
	Magnesium is essential for brain development.
	And we know that if you're low in magnesium during a pregnancy, you give birth to what's called a cretin.
	It's a severely retarded, deformed, short baby that lives only a few years and dies.
	And so doctors are well aware of that.
	But do they supplement it?
	No.
	And it blew my mind.
	I always thought, why would you not do that?
	I give pregnant women kelp all the time.
	I give them kelp for several reasons.
	Kelp's organic.
	It's easy to process.
	The body recognizes it.
	In addition to which, kelp has all the essential amino acids.
	Essential amino acids are building blocks to proteins.
	Your body can make a lot of amino acids by putting together pieces of other proteins.
	The essential ones you have to get in your diet.
	That's why they're called essential.
	And American diets, as we all know, suck.
	I mean, it's processed foods, it's canned, you know, everything.
	I tell patients all the time, don't eat anything in the middle of the supermarket.
	Only do the outer aisles.
	And try to do organic if you can.
	But interestingly enough, there was a guy named Jorge Flechas, American doctor.
	I believe he's from North Carolina or South Carolina.
	And he did an extensive study in his practice of iodine supplementation in pregnant women.
	Just like me, he's a functional medicine doctor and thought, well, we need iodine for brain development.
	Why are we not supplementing it?
	So guess what happens when you give iodine to a pregnant woman?
	You raise the IQ 20 points on average.
	Holy smokes.
	20 points.
	That's nothing insignificant.
	If you have a kid who's a IQ of 110, average 100 to 110, and you bump into 130, you've got a genius.
	At the very least, you've got a very gifted child.
	Why the hell isn't the government saying you have to put this in pregnant women?
	Everyone takes prenatal vitamins.
	Why isn't it just added to the prenatal?
	It's not in them.
	American doctors are fearful of iodine.
	They've got to convince their mind if you give iodine, you'll get thyroid storm, you'll get this hyperactive thyroid, and you'll have all kinds of problems.
	Yeah.
	And the American intake of iodine is very low, and we knew that for over a century and a half.
	How do we know that?
	Because of goiter.
	We would see, especially if you get away from the coasts, because iodine's on a lot of seafoods, a lot of air, sea air and stuff, and so it deposits more in the soils next to the coast.
	As the soils get more and more depleted, you move inland, you get to what's called the goiter belt.
	The whole Midwest.
	100 years ago, all had goiters on the neck, these big, thick necks and thyroid problems.
	And that was one of the greatest public health moves ever was to iodize salt.
	And that prevented that completely.
	Once you iodized salt, you had enough iodine in the diet.
	However, iodine, if you study functional medicine, it's a halogen.
	And so it's on the same table.
	As bromine and different things.
	And so what happens is halogens are very volatile.
	And so if your salt shaker is sitting there for a while, the iodine evaporates off it.
	In addition to which, everyone's on low-salt diets, so they're not eating it.
	In addition to which, we're poisoned by bromides.
	Bromides are in everything.
	They actually use it in bread now.
	You know, and so bromides, because it's a halogen, very similar to iodine.
	It's right next to it on a periodic table.
	Should have paid attention to high school, Jason.
	See, this was going to come in handy.
	You had to cut school that day.
	Now it's catching up with you.
	I did.
	Well, everyone hates games.
	They present it so dry.
	It's so boring.
	I had a great chemistry teacher.
	Oh, you're blessed.
	Anyway, back to this.
	And there's no measure.
	There's no way to measure that.
	So doctors are measuring thyroid hormones, and they don't know that on that hormone, in the place of iodine, is bromine.
	And so they're non-functional, these.
	And so you have to, the only way to get bromine, you have to try to limit bromine as you can for your diet, which is very difficult.
	But the best way is to flood yourself with iodine.
	And it has no downside to it.
	Because the thyroid hormones, T4, T3, that number is the number of iodines on.
	And so you need that for health.
	And for brain health, it's very important.
	So once again, I give them methylated B-complex.
	I give them iodine.
	I give them magnesium.
	Magnesium glycinate is one of the best absorbed forms of it.
	And those things all help brain function and fish oil.
	And so actually, I use krill oil more than fish oil.
	Krill oil is similar to fish oil, the omega-3s.
	However, it has astroxanthin in it.
	That's why it's red.
	Astroxanthin comes from the food chain, and you'll see it in shrimp, you'll see it in lobster, you'll see it in salmon.
	It's what gives them a red color.
	It's very good, very strong antioxidant.
	And krill oil crosses the blood-brain barrier nicely and enters the brain.
	And so I give them two grams of fish oil a day.
	Iodine in the form of kelp, methylated B-complex, and magnesium to start with.
	And then we go from there.
	But also, a lot of it is lifestyle.
	I mean, these kids are phone zombies.
	I mean, you see, my niece lives with us.
	She's a great kid, but, you know, we have a horse farm.
	She goes out at night to help my wife do night check, and she brings her phone with her.
	And she stares at it, and the Kubota going down between barns, walks around, and sees kids all day walking around.
	They practically get run over.
	They walk out right into intersections.
	They're obsessed with these phones.
	There's a price to pay for that.
	There's a lot of radiation coming off those phones, not to mention 5G cooking the planet from above.
	That's a whole other problem.
	But I tell them, unplug from this.
	You need to get out in nature.
	With no music, no headphones on, nothing.
	Listen to some birds sing, meditate, get some downtime, pray, do whatever you need to do.
	I'm glad you brought this up back.
	I want to share this real quick while we're on this topic.
	I was actually going to ask Ashley if I could dovetail one of my questions in with her questions because the SSRIs and why people need them, the mental health.
	I was looking at your sub stack here.
	This is a recent one.
	Well, it's from February, so it's not that old.
	The healing power of meditation, silence, and prayer for our sensory overload.
	And I just happened to notice as I was reading through this today or yesterday, one of the things I noticed was some of the symptoms of sensory overload, which we all face.
	overexcitement, anxiety, depression, inability to focus.
	A lot of these things are what those SSRIs do.
	Are prescribed for, and it could just be the environment we live in.
	And also, you know, Karen and I have extensively gone into EMF and how that affects the brain.
	As far as I'm aware, they've done studies on various frequencies, you know, 4G, 3G, just different for ELF, you know, UHF, what that does to the brain, what it does to the body.
	But I've never seen a study on, let's combine them all, because that's the environment we live in, is completely just swimming in this stuff of varying frequencies.
	And I've not seen a single study on, hey, let's just mimic what we're living in today and see what that does to the rat.
	Not to mention the toxic foods and the lack of nutrients.
	Lack of nutrients is half the problem.
	You know, your brain can't function.
	The omega-3, omega-6 thing is interesting because it's all about the balance.
	You need some omega-6, but they're pro-inflammatory.
	You need more omega-3s, but you have to keep a good balance.
	But once again, their diets are 20 to 1, omega-6 to omega-3.
	These kids have terrible diets.
	They're sitting there in my office telling me about their depression.
	They've got a Coke in one hand, a bag of chips, and they've got their phone in the other hand.
	You know, like, what are you doing?
	And you've got school lunches or schools allowing Taco Bell and, you know, whatever, the fast food, whatever's popular now.
	That's what is considered to be a school lunch.
	Right, right.
	I'm hoping Kennedy changes all this stuff, and he's doing a great job so far, but it's a massive bureaucracy that's fighting against him.
	I mean, do you believe in Congress?
	We're grilling him before he was nominated.
	What are you for?
	Are you for heavy metals and baby food?
	Why would you be against this stuff?
	Are you nuts?
	This guy's trying to clean things up.
	You have to follow the money.
	Who's sponsoring these people?
	They have huge conflicts of interest.
	Right.
	It's unbelievable.
	Well, one quick thing before we move on to our next subjects.
	I was just hoping if you could also Kind of go over if people are Exposed to or have been prescribed SSRIs, some of the symptoms, some of the negative symptoms that they may have associated with taking SSRIs.
	And that's one of the things that I think people are not often educated on what could be the fallout for them from these types of medications.
	And then maybe just a quick blip about if someone was trying to get themselves off of an SSRI, what would be an overall Maybe a plan that you would recommend to them?
	I wouldn't.
	I wouldn't recommend that only because it's a liability nightmare.
	Your Honor, they have to discuss that with their doctor.
	I'll be shooting myself in the foot saying that.
	But that being said...
	It's very individualized, and it depends on certain things.
	It depends on one Their willingness to work with me.
	A lot of people just want a quick fix.
	They want a pill.
	They don't care about anything.
	They don't want to listen to me about nutrition.
	They don't want to listen to me about the benefits of sunlight, the benefits of getting out in nature, the benefits of meditation and prayer.
	They don't want it.
	Give me a pill and let me get out of here.
	I'll see you in three months.
	Once again, it depends on the person.
	That being said, if they're willing to work with me, once again, I go back to that same functional medicine thing.
	I look at what the brain needs and what it's probably not getting.
	And I can't measure a lot of this stuff, so I just give it to them.
	But over 40 years I've been doing this, and you'll see it's not immediate.
	It'll take three to six months, sometimes a year, but they come around.
	They stick to the regimen.
	They'll need less and less of the SSRIs, and I wean them off them.
	You know, but it takes a while and it's very individualized.
	And, you know, there's lots of problems because people commit suicide.
	All kinds of bad things happen to that group, you know.
	But I find in that group, there's a lot of atheists.
	There's a lot of people who just have no grounding in morality and are leading these really weird lifestyles and stuff.
	And I'm not judgmental.
	Whatever you want to do, that's your business.
	you know, but I see that pattern over and over again.
	You know, a lot of them have Yes.
	The American public is Their people are isolated.
	They're lonely.
	And that's what produces these assassins, not guns.
	It's isolated.
	People just get radicalized because they're alone in their basement.
	Listening to this nonsense all day long.
	And they have mental illness.
	And consequently, you almost always see it.
	These people who are killers, and they look at them, their diets are horrific.
	These guys are living on junk food, and they're doing crazy shit.
	They're drinking three liters of soda a day, and they're out there.
	But I find there's so many patients in my practice, it's heartbreaking, who are just lonely.
	Some of them come in, they say to me, Doc, you're the only person I ever talked to.
	Yeah, there's a lack of community and sense of purpose and belonging as we move away from the more agrarian lifestyle into the cities and then the electronics help us to be or encourage us to be.
	To forego the actual in-person interactions or even calling somebody and having a phone conversation instead of texting or emailing.
	It would be interesting.
	What do you find in the role of niacin in brain health?
	Oh, niacin is key.
	Once again, B vitamins.
	It was interesting.
	I'm trying to think of his name.
	Orthomolecular medicine is one of the things I love, and I'm blanking on the guy's name.
	Dr. Levy?
	No, no.
	Levy does the vitamin C stuff.
	Right.
	Yeah, he does orthomolecular too, but I'm one of the pioneers of it.
	I just don't remember his name.
	But in the 1950s, there was epidemics of schizophrenia.
	Right.
	And it would come around in the spring a lot of times.
	And in the South, it was really bad, especially among the poor population.
	what they found they would even a lot of cornmeal and they weren't getting any niacin in their diets at all and they had not There's niacin deficiency, and that's why they fortified a lot of flour with niacin, and that got rid of a lot of them.
	Using niacin emptied out the mental hospitals at the time.
	There were people who were just in there with schizophrenia, all kinds of problems.
	So once again, it gets back to the same, I hate you beating a dead horse, but the same functional medicine thing.
	You've got to look at what the brain needs to function.
	It needs the B vitamins.
	It needs the methylated B vitamins.
	It needs the fish oil.
	It needs the magnesium.
	If you don't provide those things, any one of them lacking triggers some type of mental illness, whether it's anxiety, depression, paranoia, schizophrenia.
	Psychosis.
	You know, you see all kinds of crazy things.
	But as, you know, our lifestyles, unfortunately, are evolving in the wrong direction for that.
	You know, people are working from home now.
	They're not even going to the office anymore.
	They're ordering out their people to follow, you know, whatever it is, DoorDash, bring their food in.
	They're not even going to restaurants.
	The bars are empty.
	People are by themselves on their computers alone and have no interaction.
	You see young men, they have no guys.
	Our age, Jason, you walk down the street, you see another guy.
	Hey, hey, don't.
	You know, just as you walk by, you know, you kind of acknowledge each other.
	You don't really care how they're doing.
	It's not really, you're not going to stop and talk to them.
	Young guys are stumped by that.
	They're like, oh.
	They all are social cues they don't know.
	Right.
	And it's heartbreaking for me because I'm an Italian coming from a very large family.
	I mean, my cousins are like my brothers.
	You know, we're very close.
	You know, and I'm used to.
	Big, gregarious family, holidays with 25 people there, you know?
	And I have lots of friends.
	And my friends are giving me more joy in my life than almost anything I could think of.
	These 50-year, 40-year friendships I've had guys from medical school.
	We get together a few times a year, and we're like brothers.
	And it's mana for my soul, hanging out with those guys.
	Belly laughs and tell them the same story every year.
	You know, we laugh our asses off.
	Our wives go to bed early.
	They can't take it.
	But we have a great time.
	You know, and friendship and love and, you know, I have these young males.
	They're virgins.
	They're on Pornhub every night, and they're in their basement.
	They have no girlfriends.
	You know, they don't even want a girlfriend.
	They don't even get driver's licenses.
	They don't even work.
	I'm like, what are you doing?
	You're not living your life.
	Here's a true story from the other day.
	I was at Walmart getting new tires put on my truck.
	And my wife called me up and said, hey, while you're there, pick up a few items.
	And she likes Milo's Sweet Tea.
	That's the brand name.
	And I go get the Milo's sweet tea and a couple other things she needed.
	And I go...
	I can tell he's military because, you know, just his build.
	He was military, and I'm prior military.
	So I was just like, hey, best tea out there, huh?
	And he looked at me.
	He was like, what?
	He had his earbuds in.
	I was completely shocked that I, you know, and he took his earbuds out and was like, what's wrong?
	What's wrong?
	And I'm like, dude, I was just complimenting you on the tea, man.
	You know, that simple interaction or this, you know, back when I grew up, In southern Illinois, down in the cornfield country, it was customary that when you pass another car or truck, usually a truck, on the back roads, you'd do the little hand wave.
	I remember my dad doing that constantly.
	It was not that long ago that I was, I forget who was with me, but I was back home and I was doing that and the person with me was like, do you know that person?
	I'm like, no.
	If you don't do it, it's rude.
	But in today's society, if they don't have earbuds in or on their phone looking at it, there is no real way to interact with people because they're kind of in their own little enclosed world, even in public.
	And that goes back to the psychological thing that you did your sub stack on, on the overexponeration.
	I feel like that's a lot of what the COVID restrictions were for.
	I found that with the masks on and the social distancing, people started looking down.
	Yeah.
	And we stopped getting...
	It really broke my heart that people were being so inhumane or not making the eye contact and the smiles.
	with a mask on, of course, you're not going to smile.
	And we had toddlers that had a 20-point, But still, we have people in a parking lot or in the grocery store that tend to want to look down.
	Or they might glance at you to see, you know, are we going to smile?
	Are we going to say hello?
	Are we going to act like we used to act?
	You know?
	And there are a lot of people that really enjoy having a smile or eye contact or waiting for you to say hello.
	So I really try to make that effort.
	And even driving, it used to be that when you'd pull up to a stoplight or a four-way.
	And the drivers would look at each other to confirm, okay, it's your turn, my turn.
	And now it's very rare to have another driver actually make eye contact with you.
	But to me, that's the way that you're going to do it and be safe.
	So I feel like we really suffered from COVID and we're still seeing that lack of eye contact, looking down, that we all became a danger to each other.
	Yeah.
	Especially in children.
	You're absolutely right.
	In children, they can't see their schoolteachers.
	They can't see their face.
	They're just looking at their eyes.
	They don't know what to do.
	They missed a lot of those social cues, and it retarded their development big time.
	That was a tragedy, what they did closing the schools.
	Kids were at no risk.
	It was the stupidest thing in the world.
	They just foisted it upon everyone with the pandemic.
	It was bad.
	So, there's talk of, we on our last Night of the Storm show, I showed another proposed possible pandemic or another action plan how to handle the next biological attack.
	So it looks as though there may be more of these type of episodes in the works.
	I'm wondering what you would recommend to your patients or in general.
	How do we keep our loved ones out of the hospital?
	Or if we did have another COVID situation, how do we maintain our health?
	What's your best line of defense to stay healthy?
	Become sick.
	And then when we do become sick, how do we regain our health or treat it at home to the best of our ability?
	What are the basic guidelines for something like that?
	Yeah, well, that was why I wrote Infected.
	Infected Secrets from the Medical Underground.
	That was all about that.
	And especially with COVID and stuff, I go into that quite heavily on what to do to boost your immune system.
	So, once again, all disease comes from the organism overcoming your immune system.
	So, you know, the first thing to do is boost that.
	And there's combinations.
	I go into it in the book quite heavily, but there's combinations of vitamins you could take.
	A guy named Les Packard did a lot of this stuff at UCLA.
	He studied how antioxidants work together.
	And it was fascinating stuff because they regenerate each other.
	Glutathione and vitamin C regenerate each other.
	Vitamin E and COQ10 regenerate each other.
	Collagen works in that cycle, doesn't it, too?
	No.
	No, not collagen.
	Collagen works only with the vitamin C. It activates it, but it doesn't regenerate.
	It helps generate, produce collagen, but it doesn't regenerate the vitamin C. It only goes in one direction.
	These things regenerate each other.
	And so COQ10 helps.
	Vitamin E and so forth, and vitamin C and glutathione regenerate each other.
	Now, of course, glutathione and vitamin C are water-soluble.
	So that's the water-soluble arm.
	The fat-soluble arm of that is CoQ10 and vitamin E. What's over both of those, which is an interesting substance, which is both fat and water-soluble, is alpha-lipoic acid.
	ALA.
	Alpha-lipoic acid is great for you because it helps to regenerate both those arms.
	So when you take alpha-lipoic acid, you're raising your vitamin C, your glutathione, your CoQ10, and your vitamin E. And all of those supercharge your immune system.
	Up until recently, you couldn't take glutathione.
	It would break down.
	And so you had to use the other four, but not that one.
	But I get into that in the book a lot.
	I get into, you know, sunshine.
	Wholly, you know, just totally misrepresented.
	Sunshine, sunlight is so good for you, it's ridiculous.
	And, you know, once again, I always question the sunshine is bad causing skin cancer theory.
	And it never made sense to me because evolutionary-wise, you know, or developmentally-wise over the centuries, we would have died out as a species if sunlight killed us.
	I mean, think about it.
	You know, you're outside all the time.
	This is just the last generation we're inside, the most recent one.
	Before this, you know, you go back, you know, 100 years ago, or the last two generations, you go back 100 years ago, everyone was outside all the time.
	They were, you know, they were inside only at night.
	And you would see that, interestingly, with the melanoma levels.
	The melanoma levels are skyrocketing now, but never before, because, and we have less sunlight now than ever.
	We're inside more than ever.
	But they're skyrocketing.
	And where are they higher in?
	And I always say this to dermatologists, riddle me this.
	If sunlight is so dangerous, why do construction workers have lower levels than office workers?
	And they always look at me with blanks once again.
	A lot of melanomas on skin that isn't even really...
	It's not even exposed.
	Right.
	Right.
	It makes no sense.
	It's from burns.
	It's from getting recurrent burns.
	The office worker goes out and gets burned.
	That's why they get melanoma.
	It's from burns, not from sun exposure.
	And we could know that because a hundred years ago in New England, there was no melanoma, hardly ever.
	That's a recent cancer melanoma.
	It's come up, you know, just in the last couple of, the last hundred years.
	Prior to that, you know, New England was populated by Irish, English, Polish, Russian, German, Northern Europeans, you know, first.
	200 years, you know, for the most of it.
	Italians and Southern Europeans came in the late 1890s, early 1900s.
	But before that, it was a Northern European.
	The whites in America were mostly Northern European.
	And in New England, they were dark.
	You look at these pictures of them, they look like Sicilians.
	They're all deeply tanned because these guys were out all year round.
	They're out as the days got longer, no matter how fair they were.
	They got tanned because their skin acclimated to it.
	They weren't getting burnt.
	So consequently, they weren't getting melanoma.
	And you would think it would be epidemic among these guys.
	They would be dying off if that was the case.
	But it's not the case.
	You know, it never has been.
	You know, you have to protect yourself from burns.
	But I'm actually going to write a sub stack soon on suntan lotion, which is not great for you either.
	There's tons of toxins.
	And aluminum, different things, and suntan lotion, but that's a whole other subject.
	Do you guys know much about DMSO?
	Not I. I know that it is good for pain and any kind of skin lesions.
	Yeah, DMSO is dimethyl sulfoxide.
	It's fascinating stuff.
	There is, it came about, they discovered it in the, And in the Pacific Northwest, these guys are working with wood pulp and these big, you know, wood mills.
	They would get it on their hands and their arthritis would go away.
	They'd be like, what the hell is this?
	I keep spilling stuff on my hands.
	Man, my hands feel great.
	And a doctor up there isolated and says, DMSO, this stuff's great.
	It too, like alpha-lipoic acid, is fat and water soluble.
	So it's an amazing solvent.
	Everything dissolves in it.
	And it carries stuff right across the skin.
	So you have to be careful.
	You have to make sure your skin's clean when you apply it.
	But DMSO is amazing.
	I'm using more and more of it.
	It takes away joint pain.
	It takes away pain.
	It works good for pain.
	It works good for infections.
	It works good for all skin conditions.
	I had some solar keratosis here from the sun, so I'm always outside.
	These really dark little tar things look like.
	I've been using DMSO on them for three months.
	They're almost gone.
	Most of them fell off.
	I've been using a lot of patients for all kinds of eczema and skin lesions.
	It works fabulous.
	I don't use the full strength.
	I use the 70% with 30% aloe.
	But you can buy the full strength.
	It's very cheap.
	You can buy a tractor supply has it.
	And it'll say for animal use only because the pharmaceutical company crushed it 20 years ago.
	It depends on the state you're in.
	Some states allow it, some don't, but you can buy it online.
	It's available everywhere online.
	But what I do for people with joint pain is I combine it with boron.
	Boron?
	Oh, boron.
	Boron is key.
	Boron is such a fascinating mineral.
	Boron, what it does is it's strong anti-inflammatory, and it's potentiated by DMSO.
	So I'll take, and you can take, interestingly enough, remember 20-multene borax, the laundry detergent?
	I have some of that at the house here.
	Yeah.
	I bought some just to use.
	You can't use it as you're talking about using it.
	You can't use Borax in the United Kingdom.
	You can't get it in Australia either.
	There's a certain place you can't get it.
	What happens is Borax is mined in two places.
	It's mined in Death Valley and it's mined in Turkey.
	Those are the only two big Borax deposits, but they're huge.
	Borax is 98% to 99% pure Borax.
	It has a little bit of sodium and a little bit of oxygen in it as well.
	But I've been using that for years for osteopenia and osteoporosis.
	It builds really strong bone.
	I give them boron complex and take orally, and it works great for that.
	But if you sprinkle it in DMSO and you apply it to painful joints, it's amazing.
	DMSO is so strong, it crushes your skin.
	if you use it, the straight stuff tastes like garlic.
	If you apply it to your skin, the pure stuff Even when you apply it to your skin as a cream with the aloe, you can watch in the mirror.
	Apply it.
	It's white when you put it on.
	In 60 seconds, it's gone.
	It's soaked right in.
	It's amazing.
	And it works great for joint pain.
	But boron is interesting.
	Like I said, I use it for the osteopenia and osteoporosis because areas with a lot of boron in the soil, the orthopedic surgeons have a hard time sawing through the bones.
	That's a rock hard they get.
	But also, I use boron to raise sex hormones, to raise estrogen and testosterone levels.
	And the trick, the hack for that is that all sex hormones travel in the blood in two forms.
	They travel bound and free.
	They're bound to another protein.
	That's kind of like a circulating reserve of it's not active.
	And the free is the active part.
	And the protein that they all bind to is called sex hormone binding globulin.
	Makes sense?
	And all the sex hormones bind to that.
	And so if I have males with low testosterone, I give them zinc because it helps produce testosterone, but I also give them boron.
	Because boron lowers the amount of bound testosterone, therefore raising the amount of free testosterone, which is the active one.
	And so you can get a lot of mileage out of that.
	And there's also DHEA and other things you can add on board.
	I do a lot of testosterone injections of Depo testosterone every two weeks.
	I give them that.
	It's very cheap and it works great.
	But it's a good little hack to use boron because it comes in handy for a lot of stuff, like I said, for bone health and for sexual health as well.
	And really no one knows that for the most part.
	You never hear that anywhere.
	Interesting.
	I know that the cancer patients I was talking about that use fenbendazole, some of them, the people with brain cancer use a DMSO to help move it through the blood-brain barrier.
	But they all complain about smelling like garlic.
	Yeah.
	Well, so you go to 70% that doesn't smell, or you can dilute it with, um, And you can dilute it down to whatever strength you want.
	People are like, you know, someone like Jason might get a rash from it.
	You might as well, Karen.
	I don't think you, Ashley, you're a little darker.
	But you guys are pretty fair.
	Sometimes in red-haired, fair-skinned people, you get a rash from it at the full strength.
	Right.
	At 70%, you don't get it.
	And it doesn't make it worse over time.
	But I have a patient, actually a friend, I run a nursing home.
	And one of the secretaries here, her daughter has cancer.
	And bad, you know, kind of end-stage breast cancer that metastasized and stuff.
	But I've been keeping her alive with a whole bunch of different things.
	But she was getting severe headaches and nothing worked for her.
	I used straight DMSO on her scalp and gone.
	Wow.
	That's fantastic.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to try this for my arthritis.
	I've got it in both, well, it's both knees.
	Yeah.
	One elbow pretty bad, one shoulder pretty bad, and my hands are starting to get there.
	And I know Travis Knight, who is the son of David Knight, this is the show we're doing, he has the arthritis as well, so hopefully he'll watch this episode and maybe give that a try.
	How old is he?
	Oh, I have no idea.
	He's probably close to their mid-20s, maybe almost 30. Young to have arthritis.
	I think he has rheumatoid arthritis.
	Yeah.
	You know, that, you know, we alluded to this earlier, and I didn't really quite get to it, about gut health.
	Somehow we got off the subject.
	I think you mentioned it, actually.
	But what I do for gut, it only reminded me of that with rheumatoid arthritis.
	I find that patients who come in, especially adult patients who come in with new onset of allergies, autoimmune diseases that they never had before, it's all gut.
	It's all leaky gut.
	What happens is the enterocytes, the cells that line the intestines, the large and small intestine, are one cell thick.
	And they have these things called tight junctions where they fit together.
	On top of that, it looks like a shag rug.
	For us older folks who know what a shag rug is.
	My Scooby-Doo van.
	That's right.
	And what does that?
	That increases their microvilli and it increases the surface area for absorption.
	On top of that is a layer of probiotic bacteria.
	So what happens is, in a healthy gut, is the probiotic bacteria predigests the food.
	And it digests it and breaks it down.
	And so it breaks the fat into fatty acids that you absorb.
	it breaks down a protein into amino acids that you can absorb.
	What happens is what leaky gut is due to damage to the gut lining.
	And I'd say probably the most common thing is gluten.
	damage to it.
	You know, what happens is gluten is artificially engineered.
	Gluten is unfortunately 20 to 40 times more gluten than we ever had in our diets before, because it makes dough more pliable.
	And so you can make things like flaky, you know, crust things where they're really high in gluten.
	You know, I find that many people, even if they don't have, Celiac disease, they have gluten sensitivity and they're sensitive to it.
	Wheat belly, where you alluded to earlier, Karen.
	Right.
	Perfect.
	And so what happens is that gluten is damaging that lining, that one cell lining.
	And so those tight junctions spread because the inflammation on that one cell and large pieces of protein go in right into the bloodstream or digest it.
	And what happens is if...
	You'll get rheumatoid arthritis and arthritis problems.
	If it's attacking the thyroid, you'll get Hashimoto's.
	There's always different skin.
	You'll get lupus.
	All these different illnesses I see.
	And most patients present initially as having allergies that they never had before because their body is being ravaged by these large proteins that are going through their body.
	So I've cured.
	Tons of people by giving them a regimen of four or five things that I use for gut health.
	Now, that being said, it takes a while.
	It's not immediate.
	It takes about six months before you even notice anything.
	But the first thing I give them is a strong probiotic.
	I use VSL number three.
	It's the strongest one on the market.
	And I give them that.
	that way you provide the probiotic level.
	The second thing is, interestingly, The lining of the small intestine requires L-glutamine.
	The lining of the large intestine requires medium-chain and short-chain triglycerides.
	And so what happens is glutamine is in the diet, a lot of it.
	And so it goes and nurtures the cells there.
	So it should be a lot of it in the diet.
	There's not a lot in some people.
	And so I give them L-glutamine powder.
	And for the large intestine, I give them either coconut oil or medium-chain triglyceride capsules because in the large intestine, the digestion occurs by fermentation.
	And so resistant starches that you eat, most starches break down to small intestine.
	The resistant ones go on to the large intestine where they're fermented.
	So your body doesn't waste anything.
	It's so beautiful.
	It has a backup system to get the rest of the proteins out of there because your body wants to save all those proteins and different things and fats.
	And so in the large intestine, those cells, that fermentation produces short-chain fatty acids and butyrate.
	For example.
	And that feeds those cells.
	And that's really essential for your health.
	I wrote a substack on that, too, about a month ago.
	And so I give them medium-chain triglycerides.
	I give them L-glutamine.
	I give them the probiotic.
	And I also give them colostrum.
	You know, colostrum is superfood.
	Colostrum is the first milk of a mammal.
	It produces that.
	And what it does, for example, in a cow, a cow will produce colostrum because most of the calves die of GI problems.
	That's what kills most calves.
	And so the colostrum, besides being super rich in nutrients, minerals, trace elements, fatty acids, everything it needs, it's full of antibodies that protect the gut.
	And colostrum is great for you.
	It's a superfood.
	It has no downside to it at all.
	And so I give them those things.
	And collagen, also, and vitamin C. The collagen you always need to produce a strong cell wall.
	And that combination works fabulous.
	And what do you get?
	After about six months, their allergies disappear, their arthritis goes away, so does their Hashimoto's.
	And you can actually see their antibody levels come down.
	And so it does work.
	But in addition to what you have to try to avoid processed foods, seed oils are very damaging to the gut lining.
	Things like that, and all the chemicals in those foods, besides the gluten and other things, all of those.
	So you can really kind of try to limit, like Jason alluded to earlier, we're in this cesspool of toxins.
	Radiation of different types that our bodies are being bombarded with.
	And so it's not a silver bullet, one thing causes one thing, one thing fixes one thing.
	You need a holistic approach to it.
	And that's why I like the functional medicine approach because it gets back to basics.
	If you get back, and I say it over and over again, you get back, you provide the body what it needs.
	It's an unbelievable machine.
	I mean, it's just self-repairing.
	It does everything.
	You couldn't dream up a machine like this.
	And it's the hand of God.
	There's no way around it.
	Nothing would make something so intricate.
	But you have to keep it in balance.
	And if you re-provide that balance and you provide the nutrients you need, you cure a lot of disease.
	I had a preacher once.
	He was in the medicine.
	And he said, looking at the body, how amazing it is.
	It was designed to go forever, to not die.
	It's the toxins and the things around us that slowly poison us over time that shorten our lives.
	And if you look, I mean, if you're into the Bible and you look, you can see, you know, thousands of years ago, people lived 400, 500, 600 years.
	You know, I subscribe to the Bible that it's true, right?
	There's a true historical record.
	Me too.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, that's just, and we see, you know, As medicine got better, our life expectancy went up and up and up.
	And that's mostly because of sanitation, in my opinion.
	Clean water.
	Definitely.
	But now it's starting to go down again.
	And I think it's because of all the stuff that we have.
	Anyway, that's all I had.
	The more that I look into these different areas and different doctors'opinions, different experts, Vitamin C, magnesium, zinc, iodine is the basic.
	Right.
	You talked earlier about Levy.
	Right.
	What a genius.
	I mean, the guy, you know, he's been crucified.
	By the medical establishment, like they always do.
	If you don't toe the party line, they want to crush you.
	They whack them all with you.
	They don't want any of these.
	It always amazes me because if a patient comes to me, for example, if I was an oncologist, and I heard from a patient that they were taking ivermectin and femendazole or memendazole and were curing their cancer, I would be all over that.
	I would want to know every single thing about that, but yet they do the exact opposite.
	And it breaks my heart because he's a well-intentioned guy.
	These guys are geniuses.
	They're well-intentioned.
	They're hardworking.
	But they've got the blinders on.
	And they're not open to this stuff.
	And it's to their detriment.
	instead of patients'detriment.
	Imagine if every doctor was into this stuff and we're treating you...
	In addition, I prescribe meds all day.
	You know, you got to use both.
	But long term, this is the stuff that works without side effects.
	Let me ask you, I was listening to a lecture and I think it was Dr. Levy that said that there was a group of doctors raised the $3 million to do a clinical trial using vitamin C and lysine and a couple other nutrients to show that it helped with different
	diseases and something happened and a couple of the doctors pulled out and he figured he thought that probably they were threatened in some way if you could see some clinical trials on things or run some trials yourself and and we know that's expensive and science is bought out it's it's You've got the editors of the major medical magazines saying themselves that we're not objective.
	So what would you want to see?
	What kind of trials would you want to see?
	What would you want to see investigated?
	Well, you know, that's a great hope with Bobby Kennedy.
	The great hope is that he's going to unleash this stuff, and I really believe he will.
	He's well-intentioned.
	Some of the stuff he likes is crazy.
	Outside the medical stuff, I like his medical approach to stuff and his approach to the soils and keeping things safe.
	I've always said health begins in the soil.
	We've got to start with the farming.
	We've got to change it around.
	We've got to get rid of this industrial farming.
	We have to get back to organic farming.
	Healthy soils.
	You can't produce a healthy plant with sick soils.
	And we're only repleting MPK.
	We're giving nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium back to the soil, and these soils are progressively depleted.
	No one is studying the essential, I mean, trace elements.
	And the minerals and trace elements, no one's studying it.
	And that's where a lot of the problems lie.
	We don't know what a lot of the trace elements do, but they're in our blood.
	They're there for a reason.
	They're not there randomly.
	Stephanie Seneff is a huge, she studied glyphosate.
	Quite a lot.
	And she feels like the glyphosate in the soil, it destroys the shikimate pathway, which is what rebuilds the trace minerals and nutrients in the soil.
	So she feels that glyphosate and the pesticides, herbicides are a huge problem.
	And that feeds also with our gut problems, too.
	Yeah, well, we also, you know, with this climate engineering, geoengineering that they're doing and this stuff they're spraying, which is not a it's not a conspiracy theory anymore.
	There is an executive order or something out there that they they say it's not.
	We can see it happening.
	Those things fall to the ground eventually.
	And who knows how those chemicals, metals, trace elements that they're dropping are reacting with the elements in the soil.
	You know, like if I throw a piece of iron out, it's going to react with the oxygen and consume the oxygen.
	So who knows what this is doing to our soils as far as some of those elements we need, the plants need to uptake.
	So it's nobody knows.
	I mean, you were recommending some kind of water or plasma from weren't you from some Right.
	Quinton's marine plasma is fascinating stuff.
	It was invented by a French scientist who was a physician and he was a marine biologist, oddly enough.
	And there is these areas, these pools in the ocean, these vortexes, that produce upwellings from the ocean bottom.
	And they're scattered around, but in them...
	They're full of essential amino acids, minerals, trace elements, and everything.
	So as Dr. Quinton in the 1800s started cold processing this stuff, he was that far ahead of his time that he didn't want to damage it with heat.
	And he cold processed it and bottled it right on ships and brought it in.
	And he said he was an altruistic kind of guy.
	He set up clinics, free clinics all over Europe.
	And he was curing people by giving them large, not even large, small amounts of these Quinton's marine plasma every day.
	Then he went before the French Academy of Sciences, and he said that the body could live on this.
	And they said, oh, it couldn't, it couldn't.
	And he took a dog, and he drained his blood, and he replaced it with Quintone's marine plasma, and it lived.
	So interestingly enough, there were some doctors on Okinawa and Guadalcanal during World War II, some Navy doctors, who knew about the benefits of seawater.
	And they were desperate.
	They ran out of blood to transfuse.
	And they started sterilizing seawater and using it and mixing it and using that.
	And that saved a ton of Marines who would have died otherwise.
	Guys who just thought, what the hell do I have to lose?
	These guys are going to die unless I get something into them.
	You know what I mean?
	And so this stuff, they bottle it to this day.
	It's great stuff.
	I drink it every day.
	It's good if you provide the essential amino acids.
	But getting back to the soil problem, the problem with glyphosate and all the toxins and pesticides and fungicides and herbicides that we put in the soil, it's killing the microbial life.
	And that microbial life is the most important thing on the planet.
	We're killing these soils that take millions of years to develop.
	We're making them into dead clay that can't support anything.
	Because the two things that soils produce besides Vitamins, minerals, and stuff that they make accessible to the plant is fulvic and humic acids.
	Right.
	And those fulvic and numic acids are great for you.
	What they does is fulvic acid winds up causing...
	So it's key for our health.
	Our diets used to be heavily laden with these things because they were in the soil.
	Consequently, they were in the plants.
	Now the plants are dead.
	And you can see that in the nutritional surveys of the plants.
	You have to eat 20 apples now in 2025 to get the same nutrients you would get for one apple in 1990.
	I mean, it's crazy.
	And this is across the board in all fruits.
	And we have these good-looking vegetables and fruit, but they're hollow.
	And consequently, you eat a meal and you're hungry afterwards because your body knows it's not getting what it needs.
	That leads to obesity and a lot of other problems because, in addition to which, as we talked about during the show, all of the spectrum of mental and physical illnesses starts in the soil.
	You've got to fix that first.
	And then make sure people eat nutrient-rich, nutrient-dense foods.
	We alluded to it earlier.
	Liver is one of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet.
	It's fabulous for you.
	It's full of vitamins.
	It's full of minerals.
	It's great for you.
	People got away from eating that.
	I used to have to eat liver once a week when I was a kid.
	My mother made me.
	I hated it, but I ate it.
	Yeah, liver and onions.
	Once every week's thing.
	Right.
	But, I mean, those things were great for you.
	And we got away from all that.
	You know, mothers now are just, you know, drive through, give them a happy meal.
	Let's go.
	We got to go.
	We got to get baseball practice, you know.
	And I know lifestyle is a crowd.
	We're hurried and stuff, but you can't short your kids like that.
	Right.
	Well, shall we take one more break and then come back and do one more segment, maybe talk about.
	Yeah.
	I know Ashley's interested in that topic.
	Yeah, I actually had that one jotted down too.
	But before we go to break, I did see you had a recent article on lion's mane.
	And you just mentioned antifungals.
	Fungus is extremely important.
	It's kind of like the, what is it, the recycler or the, you know, of the earth.
	I mean, you see a downed tree.
	And I know Angry Tiger, which will be on with us when we do this live.
	We're going to play this as a live replay.
	He's really big into mushroom hunting.
	We used to be into mushroom hunting when I grew up in southern Illinois.
	Mushrooms are so good for you.
	We've talked about it before.
	So tell us a little bit about, you know, the antifungals are kind of killing it off.
	What is that doing to the soil?
	I'd say mushrooms are good at you.
	What did you say?
	I didn't hear what you said.
	I said I take a mushroom blend every day.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know, a lot of people wisely are using mushroom coffee now in the morning.
	They make coffee and have a blend of mushrooms.
	Much healthier for you.
	Although coffee's not bad for you.
	I'm pro-caffeine.
	But it's, yeah, lion's mane's are a strong nootropic.
	I wrote an article on nootropics as well, but specifically on lion's mane.
	But all of those are really good.
	They boost your immune system.
	They contain nutrients that you can't get your diet.
	As you alluded to, the soils without Fungi, the plants would never rot.
	We would be overcome with debris from plants.
	It would just pile up and not break down.
	They're essential for breaking things down.
	That's the first step.
	And then, you know, in the soil, you'll see there are microfilaments as they go through it.
	They break it down.
	They eat it.
	And they digest it.
	And that becomes...
	It's a symbiotic relationship between the plants and the soil.
	We've broken that relationship to our detriment.
	And that was a supreme error.
	And that came about after World War II primarily because the munitions industry needed something else to make.
	And they weren't making bombs anymore.
	So they started making chemical fertilizers with the nitrates that they had.
	Gunpowder before that.
	And so consequently, you know, we got away from that.
	And then we got to mass farming and this industrial farming, the Roundup, the glyphosate that's in everything.
	Glyphosate's particularly insidious because it's water-soluble.
	So it evaporates and it comes down to rain.
	And so the whole planet's being doused with this stuff.
	You know, we talked about earlier about the SSRIs and stuff, but that's in the water supply now.
	Unless you have a well and you're isolated, there's so many people urinating out metabolites from SSRIs and Prozac and different things that are in the water table now.
	They've tested water in suburban areas.
	You're getting like 70 pharmaceuticals mixed in there with the water.
	That water is toxic.
	Once again, we've got to get back to getting away from these things, not to mention putting fluoride in there, another disaster.
	You know, fluoride, I wrote a few on dental health.
	There's really good stuff you can use for your kids that not fluoride.
	Fluoride's horrible.
	It lowers their IQ.
	But if you put, I use xylitol toothpaste with hydroxyapatite in it.
	Hydroxyapatite is the protein that builds teeth.
	Xylitol is a sugar, but it's not fermented in the mouth.
	The pathogenic bacteria in the mouth that leads to cavities, Xylitol kills them, and they can't process the sugar.
	And so I use toothpaste with hydroxyapatite because now you're killing off the bad bacteria in there, and you're not providing anything to ferment to make the acids that dissolve your teeth.
	And if you leave it on for a while, it'll actually soak into the tooth some hydroxyapatite.
	So if you do that and vitamin K2, along with calcium and different things, you can rebuild teeth.
	Or at least help your teeth and protect them.
	But you don't want your kids exposed to the fluoride.
	It's a disaster for them.
	The only caveat with xylitol, it's deadly for dogs and cats.
	You've got to make sure they don't get a hold of it.
	There's a brand of gum I like that my dentist even recommended that has xylitol.
	But it's so hard.
	I just really have the dilemma of whether I want to even have it in the house with the dog.
	Yeah, I've got three dogs, but, you know, I just keep it on my bathroom cabinet.
	And there's xylitol in quite a few brands of peanut butter now, and people give their dogs peanut butter for a treat, but some peanut butter has xylitol.
	I was shocked because when I first bought xylitol toothpaste, it came with fluoride.
	I was like, what the hell is this?
	They're advertising, I'm like, no, no!
	Yeah, I mean, why aren't pediatric dentists pushing this?
	Instead, they push the fluoride thing.
	The ADA pushes, you know, the fluoride.
	Right.
	Thank God Kennedy's on that, too.
	I mean, it's all back to what we talked about before, Karen.
	Medical industrial complex.
	In the grand scheme of things, I know we have people like Dr. LaGuardia here that wants to help people.
	But the industry, and I'm not talking about the doctors, I'm talking about the level higher.
	Into continual treatment and repeat business.
	that's the problem and so if people follow the protocol you're going to They're killing customers.
	And we've created an industry of insurance which can be hyperinflated to get more money for this.
	So it's really an insurance scam.
	Bagging on doctors at all.
	Doctors are doing what they were taught to do.
	But the whole system is meant to bleed as much money as possible and have repeat business, repeat business, repeat business.
	So hats off to Dr. LaGuardia.
	You're trying to cure people, and there's not enough of that going on out there.
	True, it's not enough.
	But, you know, even the military, you know this, Jason.
	They can't get recruits.
	Eighty percent of them are rejected for either psych problems or physical problems.
	Eighty percent.
	Or overweight.
	I mean, overweight, obese.
	Right, right.
	What are we going to do?
	I mean, as a country, look at what's happening.
	This is the sickest generation coming up ever.
	Their life expectancy, I'm a baby boomer.
	I'll be 71 soon.
	I mean, I can do 100 push-ups in 105 seconds every morning.
	So I'm in good shape for an old bastard.
	But these kids are not in good shape.
	They're in terrible shape.
	They're sick.
	They're tired.
	They're mentally ill.
	I mean, think about it.
	What's the next generation going to be like?
	I mean, no one, you know, look at the next step.
	These are the kids that are giving birth.
	These mothers are, they've had the COVID vaccine.
	They've got all kinds of problems.
	They're missing.
	Nutritionally, they're a wasteland.
	They're in a toxic soup.
	And what do you see?
	You see childhood cancer skyrocketing.
	You see all this mental illness, all these birth defects.
	It's just the tip of the iceberg.
	Mm-hmm.
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	Ashley, would you like to go ahead and frame a question for us about frequency and healing, the healing powers of light?
	Absolutely.
	Thank you, Karen.
	Well, basically, and maybe not so much as a question, but just what can you tell people about red light therapy, the benefits from that?
	And, you know, I'm looking at your Substack article.
	You've got a lot of good information on how they can get exposure to red light therapy for free.
	But there's definitely a lot of different.
	And I have to say that personally, I use my red light therapy every single day.
	I use it on my face.
	I use it on my thyroid specifically.
	And, you know, like if my neck is feeling tight, I use my red light therapy on that.
	So this is just a personal.
	What kind of device do you have?
	So I have three different devices.
	I have one that is a cube about this.
	This size and it has I don't remember the exact rays but it's just red light on the spectrum of like 600 something to 800 something and then I have a handheld that has it's not as powerful but that it looks like a big light bulb and that's what I use on my thyroid and that has the 600 to 800 so it has like four different healing Light waves.
	And then I have a face mask that uses, like, I have red light therapy, yellow light, and green light.
	And I think that's staying also within the 600 range.
	Do you have Hashimoto's?
	I mean, what's your thyroid problem?
	I do, yes.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, just to get away from the light thing for a second, so you have to do what we talked about earlier, healing the leaky gut.
	Yep.
	In addition to which, you have to give yourself iodine and selenium to support your thyroid.
	Because the selenium is important because there's enzymes, diodinase enzymes are called, which means they remove an iodine, that are responsible for...
	And so, like, when I measure, when I get thyroid, in fact, I screen every patient with this when they first come in.
	You wouldn't believe how many patients I pick up thyroid problems are.
	I check a T4 free in total, T3 free in total, TSH, antithyroid antibodies, and I test, and reverse T3.
	I check for those because T3 is the active one.
	10% of the population can't convert T4 to T3, so you need to provide that for them.
	But in addition to which, once again, people are depleted in iodine and selenium, and they're in a world of bromine, so you have to supplement the iodine, either with kelp or iodorol.
	There's a whole different ways you can take it, all of which are good for you.
	And selenium.
	Selenium you can find at any pharmacy.
	Micrograms once a day.
	You know, take that.
	You know, all minerals are best taken with food to absorb them better.
	But take selenium every day and that helps support the thyroid.
	That and I fix the leaky gut.
	So that's the way I approach it.
	But unfortunately, most doctors just check TSH.
	It's the most bizarre thing.
	Yes.
	I'm so glad that you brought up the thorough because this is something I have gone on and on and on about because this is a personal thing that I have personally experienced.
	but the the testing i want people to pay go back and re-watch that what you said you test because in a traditional setting And then even if they do, they don't discuss with you what would be an optimal range for your optimal health.
	They don't seem to understand that so many people are operating with an underactive thyroid for all the reasons that you just said.
	It's like your gut health.
	It's so many things that are happening in your body that are affecting that, which affects everything.
	And it can be a huge contributor to feeling horrible.
	The greatest cause of fatigue that there is?
	Yes.
	Fatigue, managing your weight.
	Cold intolerance if you're cold all the time?
	Yes.
	Yes, and then never mind the physical fallout that you can have because when Jason was talking about it can age you faster.
	It can make you look...
	It can cause thinning of the eyebrows.
	It can cause thinning of the hair.
	Like so many issues associated with...
	Yeah.
	Yes, and this is one thing that I get really frustrated when people are often go, And that's why you're dealing with your weight issues.
	And I'm like, no, it's because people's metabolism has been poisoned and their thyroid is not functioning correctly.
	And I have seen people barely eat.
	And obviously I know that like fasting can actually be.
	Detrimental to thyroid health.
	But I'm just saying it is not an issue of too many calories or too much junk food or anything like that.
	Like it's all this other stuff.
	But anyway, thank you so much for mentioning the very thorough testing that you do for the thyroid.
	Because if people go in their normal diet, And even if you try to advocate for yourself, can you do another test besides just the T3 and the T4?
	They will give you pushback.
	They really will.
	And then one quick question on the selenium.
	So in my personal blood work that I've had done, my levels of selenium were fine.
	But do you still recommend supplementing even on top of that?
	Okay.
	Yes, because selenium, there's 200 enzymes in the body that require selenium to work.
	It's interesting.
	I tell patients to do a few things.
	I like to give them zinc, magnesium, selenium, those three minerals, at the very least, along with iodine, because magnesium, 300 enzymes.
	Zinc, 200 enzymes.
	Selenium, 200 enzymes.
	So right there, you've got 700 enzymes that now are optimally functioning in your body.
	And each one of those enzymes catalyzes a reaction, speeds it up.
	And downstream from that is producing things that your body needs or allowing metabolic things that your body needs to function properly.
	You cannot function.
	It's like running a car without oil in it.
	You know, something essential for it.
	You've got to have all the essential things for it to run smoothly.
	And so, if you give those three or four, right away, things start improving because you've, you know, de facto downstream have created a cascade of now things becoming functional that previously were non-functional.
	Or partially functioning.
	And so you get a lot of bang out of your buck for those kind of things going downhill.
	But you have to be disciplined about taking the stuff.
	The other thing I do, I never use, or I shouldn't say never, I use it.
	A lot, but I try not to.
	Pharmaceutical companies force me into it.
	Using Synthroid or Synthetic Thyroid Hormones, I use NP and Armour Thyroid.
	Now, doctors hate them because they're, and they are a pain cast to use, because they combine T4 and T3, and it takes a lot more expertise and a lot more patience with it.
	You have to, and it comes in grains, which is, you know, so it's one and a half grains of this, two grains of that, but, you know, you get used to it.
	It's not that hard.
	But amazingly, endocrinologists don't do it.
	They just stick with Synthroid, which is synthetic thyroid.
	I tell them, why not use the natural stuff?
	And it only works, isn't Synthroid the one that only works on your T4 instead of treating both T3?
	Right, it's only T4.
	Well, that's all they ever give is T4.
	They ignore T3 completely, and they ignore reverse T3, which is interesting.
	Reverse T3 is a T3 that doesn't work.
	It bi-produces it.
	So you have to, I give them Cytomel, which is pure T3.
	To overcome that.
	And then I measure free and total levels again, and I keep an eye on this as I go.
	But you'll see that, you know, their body temperature go up because it controls metabolism.
	That's it.
	That's it.
	Yeah.
	You want to be 98.6 degrees right when you wake up.
	That is the goal.
	Exactly.
	That's the sweet spot where your body functions the best and all those enzymes function better because they need to be in that environment.
	They need the right temperature.
	They need the right pH for them to all function properly.
	But, you know, that's the sweet spot.
	Years ago, before we had labs, doctors treated hypothyroidism simply by their body temperature.
	They check your body temperature.
	You know, I've always patients come in at 97.2 and I'm like, what's up with you?
	You know, they're tired, they're cold all the time, they're constipated, their hair is falling out.
	You know, and so a lot of times now in patients, we even have normal labs.
	The last couple of years, I've been treating them anyway.
	If they have the symptoms of thyroid problems, I treat them until I get their body temperature up to the normal range.
	You got to be a little careful.
	Sometimes it causes a tachycardia, a fast heart rate, but most of the time it doesn't.
	And I'll give them thyroid hormone, you know, just in natural stuff, NP or armor.
	And first of all, they go, my brain fog is gone.
	I'm thinking clearly.
	I've got energy all day.
	I'm sleeping better.
	My hair is growing better.
	My skin looks better.
	I'm losing weight.
	You know, I'm warm, I'm freaking freezing all the time.
	Especially middle-aged women, they come in, they're cold all year round.
	Middle of the summer, they've got sweaters on.
	No comment on that one.
	But, you know, so that's the best way to do that.
	And thyroid's an epidemic that's underdiagnosed.
	And once again, the bromine problem is huge because even when the labs are normal, if you don't supplement iodine with them, you're winding up with empty.
	Thyroid hormone, that's not functional.
	But getting to the light therapy, the best two are red light therapy and near-infrared.
	Those are the two that are the most beneficial for you.
	Now, all of those are in sunlight.
	So it's in the spectrum of natural sunlight.
	You know, even if you're fair-skinned, like Jason or someone, early morning, late-day sun you want.
	You know, that's the healthiest sun for you.
	And you do it enough till you get a little rosy and stop.
	No sunblock on.
	You stay out there.
	Your skin will acclimate to it.
	Your skin will improve.
	Your health will improve.
	People, you know, vitamin D deficiency is an epidemic.
	Among all my patients of color have it, for obvious reasons, they're melanin.
	They would be okay if they were in Africa or in a tropical environment where they were designed to be.
	But you bring them in a temperate environment like the United States, and it's an epidemic of them having low vitamin D levels.
	And no one spends time in the sun anymore anyway.
	And so the irony is my very fair-skinned white patients have the same vitamin D problems that my black-skinned patients have because they were in sunblock all the time.
	They're terrified of the sun.
	They're slathering on it.
	Can I jump in on that, Doc?
	Yeah.
	Because I've actually experienced this being, like you talk about, I can't go out.
	Even when it's cloudy, it seems like the clouds don't matter.
	I still get sunburned.
	I actually get sunburned worse on overcast days.
	And there was a few years that I actually had to work outside, you know, as part of my job.
	I had to work outside all day long.
	And I slowly exposed myself to get a little rosy pink, not quite burned, you know, not quite to second degree burns.
	From the sun.
	And over time, my body did respond, and I actually got tanned.
	Now, that goes away.
	When you're ginger like me, it goes away.
	It peels away.
	But it comes to a point where you can build the resistance, where you can be outside all day in the sun.
	And I can tell you right now, for those couple years that I was working outside and did that, I kept myself somewhat tanned.
	I was very healthy.
	I didn't get sick.
	And I felt good.
	I had a lot of energy, too.
	That was the thing.
	I had a lot, a lot of energy.
	And I was not a big guy.
	I probably weighed 135, 140 pounds.
	How tall were you?
	5 '9", 5 '8", now, after the Army.
	But, yeah.
	Yeah, well, you know, the interesting thing with skin, what I do now with people with skin tones like you is DMSO.
	You put the DMSO on before you go out, and DMSO protects your skin from radiation damage.
	So it won't block the sun.
	It'll still allow the ultraviolet to get through that you need.
	You need ultraviolet B to make vitamin D. Ultraviolet A penetrates deeper in your skin than vitamin D, and that causes a lot of skin damage.
	Okay, what concentration do you use for someone like him or me?
	70. 70-30.
	70%.
	Yeah, with the 30% alivary.
	You put it on beforehand.
	Do it again when you come in if you want.
	But it'll protect you.
	It actually mitigates damage there.
	There you go.
	That's right.
	It's great stuff, I'm telling you.
	I always take notes, Doc.
	When we do a show together, I always take notes.
	That's good.
	Getting back to the sunshine, people need vitamin D. I try to explain to patients all the time because they always poo-poo it.
	Oh, Doc, vitamin D. Listen to me.
	I put them on 50,000 units of D3 weekly.
	Once again, doctors give it and never tell them you got to take it with fat or it goes right through you.
	You will not absorb it.
	You've got to take it with fat.
	You've got to take the magnesium and K2 with it.
	And that's all beneficial stuff.
	None of those will have side effects.
	It'll be great for you.
	But sunlight is key.
	You've got to get kids outside.
	You've got to get them in the sun.
	Interesting thing, you put babies in the sun, they'll be taller.
	It increases the height of children if you get them out in the sun.
	Infants, you put them out in the sun without sunblock, without getting burnt.
	They should be out in the sun a little bit.
	You know, mothers carry them with them all the time.
	They weren't in the shade.
	You know, it doesn't hurt them.
	Even ginger ones, really fair ones.
	A little sun is great for them.
	So I wanted to ask a quick question.
	Do you have a recommendation to your patients as far as wearing sunglasses?
	Because in what I have been reading, and then I basically am at the point now where I am sun-seeking every single day, natural light, and I never wear sunglasses, ever.
	Yes.
	And I never wear sunscreen.
	Yeah, I don't either.
	Yeah, sunglasses are terrible for you because of melatonin.
	Melatonin is key for your health.
	Um, I take sometimes 40 or 60 milligrams of melatonin at night.
	It's great for you.
	It's a strong antioxidant.
	It's anti-cancer.
	It's anti-aging.
	It has no, no bad side effects at all.
	You dream like, ooh, baby.
	It's like, you know, it's like 30 milligrams at night.
	Yeah, it's great stuff for you.
	But, you know, interestingly enough, um, there is a huge connection.
	I got a sub stack.
	It's in my list of things to write about between electricity and cancer.
	For example, nurses that work night shift have astronomical rates of breast cancer and stuff because blue light, you need blue light during the day.
	Blue light suppresses melatonin production.
	Once again, we're made to be out in the sun.
	That bright sunlight all day shuts down your daytime melatonin, which is good for you.
	And then at night, when that blue light, that part of the visual spectrum is removed at night when it's dark, Your melatonin production peaks the way it should.
	You want that diurnal variation.
	That's the way your body is designed for it.
	Computers emit a lot of blue light and a lot of artificial lights and stuff.
	In fact, they've even done studies in schools.
	Fluorescent lighting causes more behavior problems than natural lighting.
	Can I jump in?
	I want to say, and I've brought this up on a few episodes, there's actually scientific research behind it, and every phone, Every single phone that you buy has to have the blue light filter thing on it to take the blue light away because they know that the blue light causes a disruption in the production of melatonin, natural melatonin.
	And if you take a look at all these social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, all this, they use a lot of blue colors.
	They're all blue colors.
	The reason they do that is to keep the mind engaged.
	To keep you from going to sleep, to keep you on there longer.
	Because that's their bread and butter.
	That's their money, baby.
	They can keep you on until midnight, 1 o 'clock, 2 o 'clock in the morning because they can't sleep.
	Well, their little caveat is, well, we have a blue light filter, and then you can put it in nighttime mode.
	And every phone has a nighttime mode, at least if it's sold in America.
	Maybe if you order one from overseas, maybe not.
	But it has to have the nighttime mode on it.
	And I think they say the suggestion is two hours before you're supposed to go to sleep.
	You need to turn that, either turn your phone off or put that nighttime mode on because what it does, it cuts all the blue light out.
	So you can still use your phone, but you're not receiving that blue light and your body can start creating that melatonin to help you get to sleep.
	There are glasses you can wear to block it as well.
	But getting back to what Ashley was saying about sunglasses, that throws off everything.
	Now your body sees that.
	As nighttime.
	You know, it's not allowing the sunlight into your pineal gland, through your eye, to your brain.
	That's how it absorbs it.
	And the pineal gland is what produces melatonin.
	And that's not shut down during the day.
	So you don't get the surge at night.
	And it throws things off.
	So it's our circadian rhythm.
	Yeah, it throws your circadian rhythm.
	It fools your body into thinking it's nighttime.
	Which is not good, for obvious reasons.
	But once again, get out in the sun.
	Get out in the sunshine.
	Get out, play ball out there.
	Drink some water out of the hose.
	You'll be okay.
	You know, it didn't kill us.
	I hear that RJ Jr. is talking about Allowing incandescent light bulbs to be manufactured again.
	That would be fantastic.
	Yes, right.
	Once again, we keep evolving in the wrong direction with this stuff.
	No one does long-term studies.
	All of the stuff that they've been putting in these generally regarded as safe, a lot of them were not.
	A lot of these toxic chemicals that we put, but Europe has 3,300 chemicals we allow that they don't allow in their foods and stuff that we allow here.
	Why?
	Why do we allow it?
	And they don't, you know?
	Yeah, I think he's also talking about ways to discontinue the generally considered a safe guideline where the food manufacturers say for themselves whether or not the ingredients are safe or not and allow themselves to do the testing.
	So he's talking about removing that grass.
	So that would be a really big step forward.
	I also saw that the warnings about chlorine dioxide have been removed from the FDA website.
	Well, I saw a post that said that we'll have to check it out.
	I haven't verified it, but I saw someone say very quietly that the warnings about chlorine dioxide have been removed.
	So that would be great.
	Yeah, that's some effective stuff.
	I just can't get past the taste.
	Well, I think there are some versions that have a better voice.
	A little bleach-like.
	Either way, it's like, oh, man.
	Yeah, we call it stinky water at my house.
	Interestingly enough, I was hoping that candy would also introduce mandatory testing of supplements.
	There is a ton of supplements that either don't contain anything that they say they're supposed to contain or have smaller amounts of it or other stuff in it.
	You know, I mean, make the supplement companies pay for their own testing.
	So I got a caveat on that, Doc, and we had a lot of problems in the Army with this.
	I mean, they have GNC stores in the Shop-Ed area, you know, the PX area.
	There is no testing.
	They try to put it in the formulation that's put on the label, but you don't know.
	It could be so far off either way, and there could be other stuff in there.
	We've had people that popped hot for drug tests continually, especially the people who are really into fitness and bodybuilding.
	They will pop hot for blood tests, or urine tests, sorry, and they would blame it on the supplements, and there was just no way to prove or disprove it.
	You know, because I can go buy the same thing that you say you took and test it and it may be different.
	So, yeah, I would like to see supplements be held to the same standards as, you know, our cereal, our breakfast cereal.
	I worked in a cereal factory and we had scientists that would test every batch of cereal.
	And if it did not meet the exact within, you know, one or two percent of what the label said it had ingredient wise.
	It had to get thrown out.
	It was turned into dog food or cat food, like the dry food.
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, I would like to see that as well.
	Yeah, that would be a great step forward because people are...
	That's why I try to stick to brands like Life Extension Foundation and things that I know are really rock solid.
	Well, some have...
	I don't know how you verify that either, but...
	There are brands I use online that say that, right?
	And I hope they're larger brands.
	I say, okay, it's better.
	I'll try to stick with this.
	You know, but, you know, you get what you pay for in the end.
	But, you know, I always find myself ordering stuff from Amazon.
	I hate Jeff Bezos.
	I hate Amazon.
	But I do it and I think, oh, God.
	Well, I'll have it tomorrow morning.
	Would you like to throw in any quick thoughts about CBD or hemp or?
	I'm an old hippie.
	I went to college in the 70s.
	I'm all for it.
	I think CBD has amazing potential, especially for childhood epilepsy and things like that.
	At least allow them to have it.
	Why keep this from people?
	The THC isn't in it.
	It's not psychoactive.
	You don't have to worry about it.
	There's very scant amounts.
	I happen to be the medical marijuana doctor for my county.
	I'm the guy who gives out all the cards.
	Yeah, but it's, yeah, I mean, marijuana's got some great effects.
	I mean, I'd rather have patients smoke a little weed than drink heavily in alcohol.
	You know, no one smokes a joint, goes home, beats their wife, and wrecks their car.
	You know, it's, you know, once again, it's moderation, as with all things.
	I have so many people with this hyperemesis from smoking such potent pot.
	Now, you know, the THC content is way higher than it used to be, and they're just smoking it all day, you know, and they wind up, they can't stop vomiting.
	They wind up with these, that's a common scenario now in the emergency rooms and stuff.
	CBD has great benefits overall.
	A lot of people are using it in different forms and stuff.
	One of the other things that the problems I have with patients is this nonsense of vaping.
	They think that vaping is safe somehow.
	I said, no, it's not safe.
	It's worse almost in many ways.
	It penetrates much deeper into the lung and stuff.
	It carries things with it.
	Especially kids are heavily into vaping.
	They have flavored vaping and stuff for them.
	That should all be outlawed.
	I did write an interesting substack on the benefits of nicotine a few weeks ago because there are some benefits.
	Cognitive benefits and stuff.
	That was the most well-received one I ever wrote.
	I couldn't believe it.
	People are talking about using nicotine also for a long COVID, possibly.
	Yeah, I'm not convinced that it works so great for long COVID.
	Like I said, I like the augmented NAC along with the lumbrokinase and some of the other things I use for that.
	But yeah, I'm open to it.
	know, let them, you know, experiment.
	That's the beauty of, of, of, you know, grassroots, People like you folks and different things that help bring that to the public.
	Thank God it's people like you doing it.
	You know, because it helps.
	because otherwise, the main challenge, you're not getting it.
	But now, this great thing, That's not censored.
	That's what's great about Substack.
	It's not censored.
	There's great political stuff on here.
	There's great science stuff on here.
	There's great medical stuff.
	No one's ever saying, take that down!
	YouTube hates me.
	They don't want me anywhere on there.
	I was talking about the vaccine at first, and they just took down everything.
	Censored me.
	Who the hell are they?
	We're Americans.
	We're free.
	Same thing happened to us.
	We were banned for life.
	We literally put up Pfizer's own documents.
	Remember the document dump?
	We put it up and quoted it.
	Read it verbatim and gone.
	Banned for life.
	It's madness.
	Some things have improved.
	Twitter has turned out to be good.
	You know, Musk has done some amazing things.
	I wish he would stop fighting with Trump and get back, settle that and get it over with.
	But overall, things are moving forward.
	We've got some good things going on and the Maha movement's great.
	There's a lot of good health movements going on that, you know, I mean, I think that doctors are foolish in many ways because, you know, they're overworked and they don't have the time to explore this stuff on their own.
	It takes a lot of work.
	I mean, I spend eight or ten hours a week Prepping for an article, I research every fact to make sure.
	Because every once in a while, you have something in your mind that you think is right.
	So let me check this.
	99.9% of the time, I'm right.
	But every once in a while, something comes up.
	You pointed out something earlier in this interview, Doc, about lawsuits and stuff.
	And I think that's why medicine is kind of stagnant in the mainstream.
	It's because people don't want to get outside that superhighway of what's authorized.
	Right.
	Because if you try something different and maybe there's a bad outcome, it may not even be your fault.
	Maybe it was just, you know, like you were talking about the breast cancer and stuff.
	Then now you're liable.
	So it's just easier to go with the superhighway of this is where everything goes and collect the insurance money.
	And hey, we can do a couple extra tests you don't need and collect some more money.
	Well, I mean, I don't think they're looking at it that way.
	I think 99% of the guys are altruistic.
	They're looking at it like, I want to do the best thing, but they just don't know.
	They're getting their information from drug reps, which I get a lot of information from drug reps.
	It's great because I want to know the newest drugs that are coming in.
	Primary care.
	I don't have time for this, you know.
	And they bring me a new drug, so I know about it and stuff, but I'm not blindly accepting things.
	You know, I kind of do my own research into a lot of stuff, and I look for my own ways to cure things, but it takes a lot of work.
	Yeah, I feel like it used to be that doctors were problem solvers, investigators, problem solvers, critical thinkers.
	Right.
	And that element has kind of been removed.
	So many people now.
	So that's what I really appreciate about you is that you're still thinking, you're still problem solving, looking for new ideas, keeping an open mind.
	Yeah, it's exciting because there's great stuff out there.
	And, you know, Substack really has changed everything because guys, I mean, I read articles on there every night that just blow my mind.
	There's great stuff on there that you couldn't get anywhere else.
	I mean, I was writing an article on the side effects from the COVID vaccine.
	There's nothing out there.
	It's still all censored.
	If you Google that, all it says is, oh, this is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
	You know, it just praises it left and right.
	I'm thinking, God, there's nothing out there.
	It's amazing.
	You know, I have patients that come in.
	I call them true believers.
	I openly mock them.
	They'll come in and say, I just got my vaccine.
	I go, why do you keep doing that?
	If I go, first of all, you've had six vaccines.
	You've had COVID four times in the last year.
	When are you going to realize these vaccines don't work?
	You have worse outcomes.
	That you're vaccinated.
	And they always fall back.
	It saved a million people.
	They say it saved a million people.
	It killed more than it saved.
	That was just nonsense from the beginning.
	There's absolutely no science backing that up.
	Just like there's no science backing up the masks.
	There's no 20 feet or 6 feet separation.
	Well, nothing's quantifiable.
	If I say safe and effective, what does safe mean?
	Does it mean it's 1% safe, 99% safe?
	There's no quantifiable number.
	They just spit the number safe, effective.
	They did have some efficacy numbers, which turned out to be untrue.
	They were talking about 97.5%.
	It was a moving target.
	But now they just use the blanket word effective.
	But that's not quantifiable.
	And when we talk about rare, that's what really upsets me.
	If you look at the numbers, what is rare?
	Is rare 1 in 10, 1 in 5, 1 in 3?
	It's not quantifiable.
	And that's one thing we learned in the military.
	When you spit out something, you better have it quantifiable.
	You better have a percentage.
	You better have something.
	And they don't do that in the mainstream medical as far as advertising the stuff.
	Right.
	Right.
	Yeah, well, like you alluded to earlier, it's pharmaceutical-driven, a lot of it.
	And what's in the interest of pharmaceutical companies is not necessarily in the interest of the patients.
	You know, and so the two are going, in fact, most of the time they go in opposite directions.
	You know, very rarely is there a drug that is a game-changer across the board, a silver bullet that by itself would be screwed without.
	There's very few of those.
	There are, they're out there, but there's very few of them.
	And so for the most part, pharmaceuticals are just a band-aid to put on things, but we use them chronically and no one looks at the interaction of the meds themselves with each other.
	Well, we've gone down a good two and a half hours here, and I think we've covered some great topics, so many interesting topics and information from you, little tidbits and stories from everybody.
	Shall we wrap it up?
	Shall we let Ashley make her final thoughts?
	That's what I was going to say.
	One last shot at me, Ashley.
	Come on, give me your best.
	Well, really, we covered so much in today's episode, but we were definitely covering the things that I wanted to talk about.
	I'm very concerned about the use of SSRIs and the difficulty of people being able to come off of them.
	But I think that you definitely addressed the The biggest issue for getting on or getting off is really going to be your lifestyle and looking at some of those foundational building blocks to help you feel better outside of everything else and just looking at your lifestyle.
	And then, of course, I'm so glad that we talked about the hypothyroid epidemic because it's very under-talked about.
	And as you had said, there's a very simple check.
	Your temperature, the first thing in the morning when you wake up, and if it is below 97.5 or 97.8, whatever that guideline is from Dr. Broda Barnes, then that is a symptom of hypothyroidism.
	And then some ways to correct that.
	And then, of course, talking about red light therapy.
	So these are all things that I'm super interested in, and we've covered that.
	Yeah, Dr. Barnes did great stuff on it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I really hope that some people will really pay attention to, of course, the entire episode, but specifically what you talked about with the testing.
	The test that you do on patients'thyroids, because it's really difficult to get that amount of testing done from...
	And I know some people, some doctors probably will work with you and try to facilitate that if you advocate for yourself.
	but sometimes there are insurance limitations.
	If they don't have an indication of hypothyroidism or if they don't have an indication from one of the tests, It goes through the thyroid testing fatigue.
	Yeah, good.
	You can add cold intolerance if you want and that usually pushes them over the edge.
	Great.
	Yeah.
	So I hope that people will pay attention to what you said and to really advocate for themselves if this is something that they suffer from to get the testing done and make sure that you're tracking your morning waking temperature.
	That's a really good indicator as well.
	So tons of good information and thank you very much for everything that you have shared with us.
	It's been really, really good.
	My pleasure.
	Thank you.
	Jason.
	Yeah, Doc, thanks a lot.
	I think we covered everything I had on my plate as far as what I wanted to know.
	The DHEA was kind of an interesting article.
	I highly suggest everybody go subscribe to your Substack and read that.
	It's one of your latest articles.
	Yeah, my Substack is actually a course in functional integrative medicine, alternative medicine, because eventually I'll hit on almost everything.
	Probably 120 articles on there right now.
	If people like it, they should go buy this book.
	I'm telling you right now, and I didn't do this willy-nilly, right?
	So again, not medical advice or anything.
	I didn't buy Dr. LaGuardia's book and stop taking my blood pressure medications.
	What I saw was that they almost killed me.
	With blood pressure medication.
	Literally, I went and looked up what side effects I had once they upped my dose, and I literally should have been on a crash cart waiting to be revived because I was that close to death.
	And so I went to my doctor after I recovered from that.
	They put me on a different medication.
	I said, this isn't working either.
	So it was a combination between my doctor and the advice in the book.
	As far as dietary changes and supplements and things like that.
	And we slowly work myself off of them.
	So now I haven't taken medication in two years.
	Excellent.
	Yeah, no medications whatsoever other than the supplements I take for like fish oil and Supplements, I don't count as medication.
	Right, right.
	No, the fertility decrease is a real big concern of mine across the globe.
	We did talk on that.
	And I was really interested.
	I wish we could have got into it a little bit more, but people can go read your subject, a sub stack on the decline in religion, meditation, prayer, because I think a lot of this, That is an excellent article, doctor.
	I think everybody who owns a phone or a computer should go read that so they can be cautioned.
	I just want to add one thing.
	By the way, don't ever charge your phone next to your bed.
	Put your phone in the other room.
	Don't keep one of those boosters for your internet, for the connection in your house.
	Don't do any of that in your bedroom.
	Keep your bedroom dark.
	No electronic thing.
	My alarm clock has a battery in it.
	There's no electronic devices allowed in our bedroom.
	Everything's over in the bathroom charging.
	I will say this.
	My phone goes into airplane mode every single night, if I can remember, and I unplug my Wi-Fi router, and it makes a world of difference of how you feel in the morning.
	Even if you only get five or six hours sleep, you will feel the difference.
	A lot of people turn off the breaker for their bedroom at night.
	And then the people who can afford it or who really want to invest some time and money into it hardwire their internet in their house and even have outlets with wires to plug cell phones in in several rooms.
	And then they call it a quiet room in their house that's shielded.
	I know RFK Jr. talked about having a building biologist come and build a quiet room, a safe room in his home.
	That was shielded.
	So it's important to have that break for your body when you sleep.
	Steel roofs on your house.
	Well, I got my workshop, and Karen, I think, has seen pictures of it.
	I spend most of my days out there now watching little JJ, and it's an all-metal building, barely gets any signal.
	For me to have internet down there, I literally have a Wi-Fi repeater that's probably about six feet from the router right here.
	On my desk, and it barely gets signal.
	So it's almost a Faraday cage.
	Since I've been hanging out there every day, I feel so much better.
	You know, I'll roll the garage door up so I'm getting the sunlight every day.
	Yeah, yep, yep.
	Right?
	And I'm, you know, yeah, I'm still in the Wi-Fi, but it's kind of attenuated.
	My phone gets like one bar, so it's attenuated somewhat.
	And I could tell the difference big time.
	Was JJ really fair like you?
	No, no.
	He's mixed.
	His dad is black and his mom is an Irish mix.
	He's kind of in the middle of the road.
	Right, right.
	Cool.
	So, I really enjoyed speaking with you.
	I enjoy your Substack tremendously.
	It's a Dr. LaGuardia subject.
	He has a huge range of topics.
	You name the topic, he's got it.
	It's cutting edge.
	He's staying right with the breaking news and on the edge of the front line of health.
	but also a lot of traditional topics, a lot of basic building blocks that we can use to increase our well-being.
	And I feel like one of the main We need to question things.
	And we're not calling so much into question the judgment or the knowledge of the doctor.
	But we also have to question things for ourselves and verify that they're right for us.
	And there are a lot of systems now and people that are more outside the health system, especially with so many doctors leaving the system during the COVID and nurses, nurse practitioners.
	who are setting up their own practices with different modalities and they'll help you do lab tests you can order lab tests for quite a few for yourself you know so then and then there's a lot of cash pay services now that don't use insurance so you actually pay less for services with cash pay and you have a little bit more freedom and so We have all these options opening up to us.
	So it's really nice that there are people like Dr. LaGuardia that will help us with those and guide us and be there as a resource for us.
	So I thank you so much for joining us today.
	Thank you all for having me.
	I really appreciate it.
	And I still have probably 10 questions, so we'll have to do it again soon.
	Okay, that sounds great.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Take care.
	Have a great night, guys.
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	And just I want to say that.
	and we're all learning together.
	Whatever information is offered to you or words used that you may not agree with the use of the word, for example, long COVID.
	Some of us would call that vax injury.
	Others would say we don't know what long COVID is.
	Personally, I think EMF and toxins.
	Account for a lot of symptoms that we have.
	So we just wanted to share Dr. LaGuardia's information and knowledge and questioning, learning.
	He's got an open mind and he continues to learn.
	And I really appreciate that quality about him.
	And as with anybody, we take what is valuable to us and we leave the rest of the information.
	So Angry Tiger, would you like to fill us in on a financial report or whatever you'd like to discuss for a little while?
	Absolutely.
	First of all, what an excellent interview.
	And Dr. LaGuardia, it's always a pleasure listening to him.
	It's extremely refreshing.
	And I think you made a very good point.
	I think a lot of us become fundamentalists and word Nazis, and we get into this pigeonhole area of life where if it's not 100% pure to our viewpoint, then we discount it.
	And I think that that's a big mistake because then you're taking information that you could use from a source that you might not like.
	Or they're using wording that might not be particularly the way that you agree with it, the wording.
	And then you're discounting the information.
	Well, you can learn things from people like that.
	So it's very important that we keep an open mind.
	We talk to people we disagree with.
	And there might be some things that they say that we can learn from, and they might learn from us.
	So that's very important.
	Economy-wise, wow, there is a lot going on.
	If you watch my reports, you know.
	The American economy is in decline.
	It has been in decline for quite some time.
	I like to look at the leading economic indicators, you know, manufacturing indexes and stuff like that, wholesale good orders, durable good orders.
	And we have been in contraction in manufacturing and all leading economic indicators for over two years, and now it's worse.
	And all of a sudden, look, we have a war.
	And health of the state is war.
	It gives the opportunity of the central bank to pull more money from the future into now.
	And what we see going on is a controlled demolition of the economy, of the United States economy, a controlled demolition of the dollar.
	Their de-dollarization is all over the place, as Tony Arterburn always talks about.
	And that's not a myth.
	That's something that's real.
	With the current situation, With the war between Israel, Iran, and the United States now being involved, there's a lot going on and it's all happening for a reason.
	This is part of this demolition.
	This is part of the consolidation and the reset of the monetary system into a digital currency age.
	And we're going to see a lot of things happen and I want to break some of that down with you.
	Number one, globally, geopolitically, you have Russia.
	This affects the whole world.
	Russia's quietly moving pieces around.
	We, of course, are supporting Israel.
	I mean, we pretty much came out and said that yesterday.
	You have Saudi Arabia, UAE, you know, all those people.
	They're on a tightrope.
	Turkey, they're kind of seeing which way the wind is going to blow, I think.
	And then you have China, who is the smartest of this whole group.
	They're sitting back and waiting, right?
	They're like, ah, look at everybody fighting each other.
	We'll pick up the scraps globally, economically.
	They are in a good position to pick up.
	What the United States is going to leave behind.
	And they already have when it comes to our manufacturing and being the global dominant force when it comes to manufacturing and providing goods to the rest of the world.
	So we have lost that position.
	And that puts us in a very, very poor position here at home for the value of our dollar.
	I've been tracking the dollar.
	The dollar has been below support level for over two months now.
	It's not getting any better.
	And that's one of the reasons I think this war is, it's not a coincidence it's happening now.
	Because what's going to happen as this starts to get bigger and bigger is capital is going to go to places where they, like I said in my podcast, it's a safe cave, right?
	A safe place.
	Capital is going to go into what they consider lower risk assets.
	So you're going to see.
	The dollar jump up a little bit.
	It might get back to support level.
	I would be really surprised if it doesn't as this conflict continues.
	You're going to see the bond market.
	You're going to see the 10-year yield and T-bills and the bond market yields drop a little bit because they're extremely unstable.
	You have the Fed going in and buying the debt to keep the bond market stable.
	This is going to ease that mechanism a little bit because people are going to look for a safe haven for their capital.
	While all this is going on, the bigs.
	They're taking all this fresh money that's being printed for this war.
	It's going to the military-industrial complex.
	The stock market, it's going to get volatile.
	It's going to go up and down.
	Insider trading left and right.
	All the bigs are going to start moving their dollars into commodities, which they have been doing.
	Hard commodities.
	Any kind of commodity they can, because they don't keep their money in U.S. dollars.
	Okay, so a lot's going to go on.
	Another thing that I'm really worried about is the oil booby trap.
	It's already been triggered.
	Oil's already up.
	But the problem is the Strait of Hormuz there, if they close that, you're going to see that's 20% of the world's oil supply coming out of there.
	That's going to affect the market.
	That's going to affect the price of oil.
	Our gas prices are going to go up.
	It's a domino reaction.
	All these things are going to happen.
	And we could see $120 a barrel of oil, no problem, even more, if it gets bad enough.
	So this whole war has basically a reason and another mechanism for the bankers to pull money from the future into the now, to devalue the dollar, to move ahead with this system of CBDC.
	Things will be so bad.
	By the end of all this, that the general public will be begging for a solution.
	And they're going to say, hey, look at this CBDC tether coin.
	We can control the amount of money that's in the system in real time.
	And we'll be able to control inflation that way.
	And what it really is going to control is you.
	And that's the big problem with all of this.
	It's definitely happening.
	And this war is going to accelerate it.
	The S&P 500 last month, the number one driver of the S&P 500 last month was stock buybacks.
	That is a freeze frame of where our economy is at right now.
	We are in the midst of cannibalizing ourselves right now in the markets.
	I'm watching that in the markets, the cannibalization of the markets.
	And like I said, 90% of the stock market is held by 1% of the population, maybe 2%.
	So all the bigs, they're killing it.
	They're making money hand over fist.
	They're not worried about this.
	But expect a lot of market volatility.
	Expect oil prices to go up.
	And you can expect the bond market and the dollar to get stronger short-term, mid-term, and then long-term major crashes happening.
	Faster than in 2008.
	So everybody prepare yourselves for that.
	And what I would say is the best thing you can do is get into a safe haven asset for the common man.
	That would be gold and silver.
	And I would, you know, I know everyone here knows about this, but the best way to get into the gold and silver game is to go through Wise Wolf, get that subscription plan.
	I mean, $35 and you can have it, you know, I think it's the Cub plan and you can have some gold and silver being sent to your house.
	This is something that is so important to protect yourself, to protect the value of your money by investing it in hard commodities like gold and silver, precious metals that you have, that you hold.
	With that being said, everybody, if you're in the Wolfpack already and you're finding it a little bit difficult to keep up with that monthly subscription, go down a couple notches.
	There's nothing wrong with that.
	If you can't afford the monthly subscription, I suggest maybe you take a change jar, something, your bottle money.
	If you take back bottles in your state, you can do that.
	Whatever it is, whatever little extra money you have, save that.
	And get some gold and silver, some precious metals, or even some commodities that you can barter with because we don't know how horrible this is going to be.
	But with that being said, definitely protect your money by getting into the gold and silver.
	Tony and Wise Wolf over there, the whole staff, and the reason Tony does this is not so much profit-driven.
	This is more because he believes in this.
	This is a true way to protect yourself.
	From what we have coming.
	We all see the writing on the wall.
	So we really need to make sure that we're prepared for this.
	And that is the best way.
	You go to the Wolfpack website.
	Go to wisewolf.com.
	Get to the Wolfpack website.
	Use that promo code David Knight.
	And it helps David out.
	Helps you out.
	It's a win-win situation all the way around.
	So that's basically my financial wrap-up here.
	We're in a lot of trouble, and this war is just another symptom and another signal of how fast we are in decline.
	Okay, great information.
	Jason, did you want to unveil your Wolfpack package right now?
	We have about five minutes, four minutes.
	Yeah, thank you, Karen.
	If we go over a couple minutes over, that's okay.
	But yeah, I'm glad you brought up the Wolfpack.
	And actually, let me throw this on screen real quick.
	Let me see if we can find it.
	Here it is.
	I actually did this.
	So if you're looking on the screen right now, if you're not listening on audio, if you're watching on video, I have davidknight.news up top, davidknight.gold.
	That will get you to Tony's Wolfpack.
	And by the way, if you just have to do a purchase, like a one-time purchase, you can do it through Wolfpack as a one-time, and you're going to get the buying power of a group.
	So you're going to get a little bit more for your buck.
	What I have here is I actually got my wolf pack.
	I have a monthly thing as well.
	And I'm not saying that gold and silver.
	I know a lot of people are turned off by the gold and silver thing.
	But I do a little bit of everything.
	I've got property.
	I've got ammunition.
	I've got guns.
	I've got storable food.
	Gold and silver is just one of the ways to diversify.
	So I opened my wolf pack.
	I haven't opened it open yet.
	I just cut it open.
	but this came inside this.
	You're going to get a, And let's see what I got this month.
	All right, so I've got, oh, I got Beans the Brave stickers.
	That's cool.
	Oh, awesome.
	Yeah, I got some gold backs.
	I'm not sure how many is in here, probably two or three.
	That's the cool thing is that Tony will make sure that he rounds it up, I guess you can say.
	Rounds it up to make sure you get something fractional to make.
	To make sure that you get your full thing.
	It looks like I got two silver rounds.
	Oh, these are new.
	I don't have these yet.
	This is something new.
	It's Asahi.
	Is that Japanese?
	I don't know.
	You get a lot of really cool numismatic coins from Wise Wolf.
	That's one of the really cool things about it.
	And then I got some- I got some 90% silver to top it off.
	It looks like a couple half dollars and a couple of mercury dimes.
	So, and, you know, that's just how I do the unboxing there.
	And while we're plugging, let me go ahead and plug everybody because this was a great show.
	Karen, you did a fantastic job with the interview.
	Thank you so much.
	I really enjoy the health issues tremendously and it's an honor and I just really enjoy.
	Talking with Dr. LaGuardia or anybody whose brain I can pick about health.
	All right.
	Let me plug everybody out here.
	So make sure you go to David's show.
	And the reason we're bringing this up, you know, because David is supported.
	He's listener supported.
	So if you enjoy the show, and I know he's out of commission right now.
	He's healing.
	Travis is holding it down.
	We're trying to help out where we can.
	But, you know, go help out if you like the show.
	It's a value for value type thing.
	I know when David started, when Alex fired him, I canceled my Netflix.
	And I said, let me just put this money towards Subscribestar.
	So it's a monthly recurring.
	I ain't got to worry about it.
	I watch David more hours of the week than I was watching Netflix.
	So it just makes sense, right?
	But yeah, go to David Knight.
	I think it's davidknight.news now.
	You can go get there.
	It's a little bit easier to type.
	You can donate to him by sending a check here to this PO Box.
	You can cash app Zelle, which is also on the screen right now if you look at the bottom.
	I didn't put that up the whole time because I don't want to be a digital panhandler, but yet he's going to need it now with the medical costs that are coming up, by the way.
	All the places you can find him and then some merch you can get.
	This coin here, there's a new version.
	It's like a copper.
	Like a brass-looking one.
	I actually got one.
	It's pretty phenomenal.
	I like it better than the first coin.
	Of course, these are sold out, I think, for the love of the road.
	Is it for the love of the road?
	I believe.
	Yeah.
	He's talking about doing another round of these, so they may be available again soon.
	We'll see about that, if that happens or not.
	And then, of course, all the wearables.
	I'm wearing the MacGuffin shirt right now.
	So I love the MacGuffin shirt.
	It's a great conversation piece.
	And it has the website on the back.
	So people might come ask, you know, hey, what's that about?
	And while I'm plugging, let me plug the folks that are here with us.
	Well, we got Doc's.
	We plugged Doc in the interview.
	But you can really find everybody at thenightsofthestorm.com.
	Go there.
	You can see, go to the Friends tab.
	Now, there are some updating.
	I keep saying I'm going to update this, and I haven't.
	Basically, I've got to remove all of the Rockfin links, right?
	Because everyone got booted off Rockfin.
	But I've got to fix that and then change a couple times.
	But it's pretty much, for the most part, updated.
	They've got the schedule here.
	You can see where to find different people, including Guard Goldsmith, which Guard Goldsmith will be hosting tomorrow and Friday.
	To carry out the rest of the week.
	So make sure you check him out on Liberty Conspiracy.
	He's on 6 p.m.
	Monday through Friday, 6 p.m. Eastern over on Rumble.
	He's not a Rockfin no more, but he's on Rumble.
	Is he on kick yet, Tiger?
	I don't think he is.
	I don't think he set that up.
	But he's on Twitter, Twix, whatever, and Rumble.
	And then we got Tiger's Den.
	Thank you for the report today, Tiger.
	Go check out the Tiger's Den over on Rumble.
	Twitter, and he is on Kik.
	You're on Kik, right?
	Yes, sir.
	So, the Angry Tiger's Den.
	It might be Angry Tiger's Den, or it might be The Angry Tiger's Den.
	Just check it out.
	It's pretty easy to find.
	Again, go back to the Night to the Storm website.
	I have it linked there.
	So it's easy for everybody.
	And then last but not least, Ashley, tell us about your...
	I was catching up with an episode.
	Tell us about your other show that you do.
	Yeah, thank you so much.
	I am part of Union of the Unknowns and that is, it was a spinoff of, or just a takeoff on the name of the Union of the Unwanted, but we're unknowns.
	And it started after our love of the Propaganda Report podcast with Monica Perez and Brad Binkley many years ago.
	And so we just have a show.
	Sometimes we do a roundup, sometimes we have a guest.
	We try to cover news stories that are maybe not quite as serious or as As well known or as well discussed in some other alternative media.
	And yeah, so that's what we do.
	It's fun.
	And we would love to have you come check us out and, you know, just join us in the chat.
	Yeah, give a follow, folks.
	It's tough out here.
	It's tough out here.
	They suppress us.
	But that's all I have.
	They hate us.
	They got us buried under the jail.
	Right, right.
	I'd like to say that I appreciate everybody in chat so much for your kindness, your support of one another and of us, and your faith and your kindness and just being here with us and for David and for Guard and Union of the Unknowns and all of us week after week.
	We appreciate you so much.
	I've made some really...
	So we're praying for David and family that Travis has a safe trip and enjoys his visit with the in-laws and that Whistler continues to recover from his tangle with Big Pharma.
	And I'm also praying for Bouncer the Dude Dog who had a tangle with a critter yesterday and hoping that he's doing okay.
	And I want to see some Bouncer the Dude Dog stickers, Angry Tiger.
	So I guess that's it for today and it was just so great to have everybody and thank you so much and continued prayers for all of us.
	Take care and God bless everybody.
	God bless one and all.
	God bless one and all.
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