James catches up with Michelle Davies, a former osteopath. She still practises and is much in demand for the miracles she works with her patients. But she can no longer use the term 'osteopath' because of a long-running spat with the General Osteopathic Council, which she believes is yet another regulatory body hijacked by Big Pharma.
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Welcome to The Delingpod with me, James Delingpole.
And I know I always say I'm excited about this week's special guest, but I really am.
Back for a second appearance is our old friend, Michelle Davis.
And the reason this set-up is weird is I've come for treatment at Michelle's gaff.
In Worcester, as of a few listeners.
And I hear that it's been going really well for some of you.
I mean, are you allowed to talk about people's treatments?
Because one doesn't want to be client confidentiality and all that.
If I don't mention names?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think so.
If I don't identify someone, I think that's all right.
Well, I just like happy stories about people getting better.
It's not like the Michelle Davis promo podcast.
I don't want to become that.
But at the same time, I think if people have been in really bad situations and you've helped get them out of them, it's quite good to hear Yeah, definitely, for sure.
So go on, just tell me what's happened.
You've had quite a lot of trade since that last podcast.
Michelle's, if you haven't seen the first one, Michelle is an osteo, not an osteopath.
She can't, she's not allowed to call herself an osteopath because of trouble we'll talk about in a moment with the, what is it, the National?
General Osteopathic Council.
General Osteopathic Council.
And some of you have been following Her adventures, some of you actually listened to the hearing, which is very impressive.
I couldn't get my head together to go through the written role of passing there, you know, to get through the gatekeepers.
But yeah, some of you did.
Anyway, sorry, I was dribbling.
Tell me about some of the happy stories that have happened.
So actually, first of all, thank you for those that did attend the hearing.
I know there were lots of people that couldn't attend.
And that was because the regulator wasn't answering the phone and not returning calls.
Funny that.
So, they didn't have an answer phone or that the answer phone was full.
So, yeah.
Better luck next time because there is a next time.
There is another hearing on the 3rd and 4th of June.
Yeah.
So I have been contacted from people around the world, James, so your podcast actually reaches California, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Portugal.
I was going to say it's global, except global isn't a word I use anymore because I'm a bit suspicious about this spherical thing that we're supposed to live on.
Yes, or whether it's like that.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
We won't go there.
No, let's not go there.
So really, what, from New Zealand as well?
That far?
Yes.
Yeah, but they obviously couldn't fly over for treatment.
But you've had people travel a long way, haven't you?
Yes.
A lot of people, if they can't travel, are asking me if I can make any recommendations.
So I've tried to do my best I can.
I'm in a group on Telegram.
And so I post in the group and I try and find other osteos that potentially would be able to make a difference to them wherever they're living.
Yeah.
Oh, that's good.
Because I mean, it would be kind of sad, wouldn't it, if you were the only person in the whole of the country with your skills and that everyone else is rubbish.
I mean, that would be a bit depressing.
But it's not the case, is it?
It's just finding these people.
How do you find them?
I think that is really difficult.
It is really difficult because you want to go to someone who is like-minded.
You want to probably ask them questions and you don't feel like you can.
Like, have you been jabbed?
That's a tricky one, isn't it?
Or do you believe in God?
So these are questions that you can't ask of the practitioner that you're seeing.
So you hope that you pick up perhaps information from reading their website, maybe reading their testimonials and I suppose asking myself and then I can point you in the right direction.
I think it is hard.
I think potentially some of the best osteopaths can't use the title osteopath, so you're not going to find them necessarily on the osteopathic register because they've been forced out.
So it does make it very difficult.
I've just seen your diary thing there in front of me, it says Global Health and... Global!
You've used that word!
Global Health and Wellbeing Consultant.
I mean, that's the thing, you've got to use these sort of woo, woo terms to get, to bypass the gatekeepers.
And it's just... It's ridiculous, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, people have travelled long distances to come and see you.
Yeah, so from Ireland and France, Scotland.
Yeah, most counties in the UK.
And okay, tell me some of your, tell me some.
So one of them we can share because it's actually on my Google reviews.
Oh good.
And one of the lady, one of the mothers wrote the review this week so that's actually that I can speak about.
Got it.
Maybe I should even find it and read it.
It's probably better if you just tell the story.
I'll try and remember it correctly.
So it was a young boy, I think maybe about 11, very unhappy and really wanting to take his life.
So he was talking about suicide frequently.
And he would talk about ways that he could take his life and just very miserable and sad and feeling very isolated.
And obviously, his mum was distraught and not really sure what to do.
So, she listened to the Denning Pod and brought him to see me.
And the result of that was that I detected that it was from his birth.
So it was birth trauma that caused an injury to his head, to his brain.
That was like a concussion, which had actually remained from his birth.
And now he's 11, but still suffering the effects of that.
That was creating his energy to be very low, his mood to be very low and in a very dark place, but not through any fault of his own and not through how he was thinking or acting.
It was just something that's just part of him and he won't have known any different.
So, I began to release that trauma from his system and it was after the third treatment that he started to say to his mum that he was happy and it's the first time In years that he said he was happy.
His mum obviously was crying because to hear those words.
I hadn't heard that detail before.
That is so sweet.
And other people had noticed the difference in him as well.
So I then received an email from a family Who said that they'd been out for lunch, and they had seen such a transformation in this young boy, and the mother as well, that they wanted to book appointments as well.
Yeah, so even bystanders could see the difference in the boy.
Isn't that a bit worrying though, that something that happened in your past, like at the time of your birth, say, that can completely ruin you, well not completely ruin you, but effectively cause damage which lasts for your life and you could end up topping yourself or or being a terminally depressed or whatever yeah i had another case yesterday
um of a farmer um 42 year old farmer and um he came to me from a very very long way away several hours away um and And I detected the same in him.
He's had a lifetime of issues, but nobody has known his issues.
I was the first person, I think, that he's actually told, and that was just yesterday.
And I was able to discover as well that his lifetime of trauma that he's been experiencing was actually from his birth, and he's 42.
And it wasn't a particularly difficult birth, but it was just that he was delivered fast.
And I'm not sure then if anything would have happened to him when he was a toddler maybe, because we don't know maybe that he would have fallen on his head.
After the appointment, he was going to ask a number of questions then of his mum, see if she remembers anything.
CB But it explains his difficulties throughout all of these years.
But the concerning thing is that nobody has known about that level of suffering that he's been going through.
And he's been in a very dark place.
And he's very successful.
And he has a lovely, wonderful family and children.
And he's a successful farmer.
But nobody has known what he's been experiencing inside.
And I I really believe that there are a lot of people that have taken their life and it is because they've been suffering with concussion.
And I feel like I want to be able to do more and say more to people to bring comfort to those that haven't understood maybe why their child has taken their life.
Because potentially that has just come from an injury and they've had a concussion.
Yes.
And it's resulted in suicide.
Well, of course, the devil wants you to kill yourself, doesn't he?
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Certainly.
Is it a stretch to say that the devil actually causes childhood head injuries?
People talk about demons.
I've heard this in my treatment room and I try and understand that myself and explain what that is.
I don't think it is a demon.
I actually think that it's toxicity that the brain is sitting in because of the head injury.
So, if the head has been injured and it sets up inflammation around the brain, it sits in a sack of this toxic fluid, which is not draining because of the injury, which has affected the lymphatic system.
So, then the brain is creating these toxins, like every organ in the body creates toxins, but the lymphatic system is what takes the toxins away and cleans the system.
The brain has a lymphatic system, which does the same thing.
But if you've injured your head, that doesn't happen.
So, the brain sits in toxicity.
The toxins are being given out from the brain continuously, not clearing.
And that is like poison.
So it's like your head is sitting in poison.
And interestingly, patients have said that to me.
They've said my head feels like poison.
Or they've said that they feel like they're suffocating and they can't breathe.
And it makes so much sense because their vitality and their life force is so depleted because of the trauma.
So is this what's been wrong with me for the last few weeks, that my head's been sitting in poison, is that?
Yes.
Because I came to see Michelle because I've been feeling really wrecked.
Probably the reason I'm skittish now is that she's cleared it, for the moment anyway.
So you know I came off my horse, I got bucked off my horse and then it happened again and I got a concussion and I didn't treat it.
And then in Colombia, I was just by this waterfall and I just slipped and I think it triggered the response that fooled my body into thinking I was getting a concussion again.
That I didn't hit my head.
And I've been feeling absolutely rubbish.
I don't like this concussion thing.
No.
But I mean it's a real pain in the arse not having to come and see you.
There are ways though, there are other ways of preserving the Christ oil, the sacred secretion, the cerebrospinal fluid.
So when you've had treatment you can do a lot of self-help.
I talked about this last time about it being the Christ oil, the sacred secretion.
So it is honouring God.
Yeah.
So there are ways that you preserve it and nurture it.
Yeah.
Like not being lustful, not being greedy, praising God.
How greedy?
I mean, how not greedy?
We're talking moderation, aren't we?
But I can still enjoy my food and stuff.
Of course, yes.
I think the one you mentioned that I might be most prone to is anger.
Flashes of anger.
Because I just... I look at the, you know... Do I not hate them, O Lord, that hate Thee?
Love thy neighbour.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, my neighbour's fine, but if my neighbour is Bill Gates, I'm not sure that the love's going to be really forthcoming.
And there are lots of kind of mini Bill Gates's around, aren't there?
I mean, there's a lot of cause for wrath right now.
We can't leave it all to God.
No, but that is where we have to show love.
I know that's so difficult to do, but that is one of the ways that you will honour your Christ oil, because that's what Jesus would have said.
Yeah, I know, exactly.
Love everyone.
Yeah, exactly, but it was Jesus.
It is difficult, but yeah, so that's one thing you could work on, to raise your Christ oil.
Okay, fine.
And forgiveness.
Yeah, okay.
There's a list and it's on my website.
It's on my website.
Oh, well, fine, fine, fine.
Now, look, tell us, because I'm in Worcester and I've got to have lunch with Dick, or at least I don't want to miss lunch with Dick.
So if we don't get enough time to do this, we'll do the second half on the internet.
But people want to know about your hearing and how it went and whether you won a resounding victory against the General Osteopathic Council or whether Yeah, so there is another hearing.
It didn't end.
Three days just wasn't long enough for the regulator to decide what to do with me.
So the next hearing is the 3rd and the 4th of June, and please, as many of you as possible, come and support me.
It is a virtual hearing, but please support the hearing.
I think it is quite... What I've heard from people who watched it It is quite good theatre.
It's good sport because they really were kind of rooting for you.
You don't have to root for Michelle.
You can hate her.
You can even think of her as a bad person if you want.
But I think you'll probably find yourself rooting for Michelle and kind of being really unimpressed by the low greatness of the people they're putting forward to represent their case.
What is their case against you?
I would say it's just embarrassing.
What are they trying to pin on you?
What did you do wrong?
So I produced documents.
It was an affidavit of truth, a commercial lien.
And that was because the regulator restricted my advertising in 2016.
And they gave me, they provided me a list of symptoms that I could say I treat.
Back pain, sciatica, headache.
There was about a list of 12.
Not suicidal.
Definitely not depression, anxiety, any learning difficulties.
No, none of those things at all.
So I had to abide by the list.
And so I took action against them in 2021 and I used my own processes, which was a lawful action as opposed to legal action.
And they questioned those documents.
And discriminated against me because as part of the document, I referred a lot to the Bible and also to the founder of osteopathy from 1874, the philosophy of osteopathy.
And I even signed the documents witnessed by the Holy Trinity, as in my lawyer is the Holy Spirit.
So with all of this, they loved it.
Yeah, they did.
But they thought that I was mentally unfit as a result of the document.
So they then made the assumption that I couldn't communicate with my patients and that my patients were unsafe in my hands.
And then they've taken me through now.
It's three years.
It's coming up to three years.
I've been suspended of using the title since October 2021.
I already had three hearings between September 21 and December 21, and that still wasn't long enough for them to decide what to do with me.
So the suspension of using the title Ostropath has continued since October 21.
This is now the fourth hearing And then the next one in June is the fifth hearing because they still haven't decided what to do.
There is no evidence from any patient or public of me causing any harm or loss to anyone.
So there is no victim.
It's just the regulator.
So the regulator have taken the action against me.
They've presumed I'm mentally unfit.
They've presumed the patients are unsafe in my hands.
They are protecting the public by removing my title.
And they are going to deliver the verdict on the 3rd and the 4th of June.
Right.
What's the worst they could do to you?
Strike me off.
But haven't they already struck you off, effectively?
Effectively, they've removed my title anyway, so there is nothing else that they can do apart from actually striking me off the register.
And the likelihood is that that is what they will do, even though there is nobody I've harmed.
I think it's a racing certainty you're going to strike off, because what this is really about is institutional capture.
That osteopathy used to be a field which treated a wide range of problems.
and gradually it got narrowed down because I suppose vested interests like the pharmaceutical industry didn't want people like you treating people for a range of symptoms that they would rather have them on medication for or seeing the regular doctor so they so they move in they capture the regulatory body and the regulatory body says right you can't advertise about
All the amazing miracles you've worked, and you can't talk about anything but crunching bones and sorting out bad backs.
Nothing wrong with sorting out bad backs, by the way.
No, no, we do that as well.
Yeah, but it's nice, isn't it?
If you've got a suicidal child, you can maybe bring him along to you.
Yeah.
You think?
Yeah, it is to protect the interests of big pharma.
And that's what I believe is behind this agenda.
It's big pharmaceutical companies dictating to the regulator to restrict the scope of practice of osteopaths so that we are very limited to the numbers of people that we can help to heal.
Because that's what we do.
We actually do heal and help all conditions, all disease, All illness, because all symptoms are is a sign of dysfunction within the body.
Yeah.
Body mind spirit.
And so what do you like people to do if they want to come?
How do they come and see you in your hearing?
So I have asked the regulator now a few times.
For forthcoming information and they haven't provided it yet.
I'm assuming it will be the same as last time that there will be a telephone number that you ring the day before the trial, which actually this would be the Friday, I think, because the trial is on the Monday and Tuesday.
But they did say to call the number for the registration.
But this is what was the problem last time that people couldn't get through.
But I would hope this time that they've improved.
Maybe they've got more people to answer the phones, which will allow more people to witness the hearing.
Yeah.
So please come along.
I'll put the details below.
And also, OK, so people who have heard this podcast and they think, well, I want to see you or somebody like you, what do they do?
You're inundated, aren't you?
Yes.
The problem.
Yes.
Yeah.
I'll try my best to point you in the direction of other people also that can help.
Yes.
It's sad isn't it?
I never go and see my doctor these days.
Probably most people watching this are at the stage where I'm ill.
Don't go anywhere near a hospital or a doctor.
No, you want to stay away, don't you?
It's actually, that's because it's the sickness industry.
It's not the health industry.
That's the truth.
It's the sickness industry on the whole.
Yeah.
So it is best to stay away and it's best to use Mother Nature.
Yeah.
Yes, as natural as possible.
Exactly.
Yeah.
If we think about anything else, we'll add it, we'll do it on the online.
Because I mean, we've sort of done our chats, haven't we?
Yes.
Yeah.
What advice do you give to somebody who doesn't want to get concussion, but doesn't want to stop riding?
You've just got to stay on the horse.
You just can't come off.
And if you do come off, then seek treatment within a couple of weeks.
Yeah, but the waterfall was not a horse.
No, it wasn't.
And I didn't think it, I didn't, I didn't feel like it was.
No, it just it was a trigger.
I think after any injury, for you in particular, because of the injuries you've had before, I think for any injury that you have, then I should treat you afterwards, within a couple of weeks.
One treatment usually would be enough.
Well, thank you for listening to this very short bulletin of The Dying Pod with Michelle Davies.
I do hope you'll go and see her in her Online trial and cheer everyone.
Because as Michelle goes, so do many people who are trying to get out of the system and the beast system.
Yeah.
Anyway, I'm so happy for those of you who have sought Michelle's help and had Yeah, I'm just glad that I could point you in the right direction.
Everything I do is worthwhile when I hear stories like this.
No, no, it's not about me.
It really makes me happy.
An eleven-year-old boy, not suicidal, that's so nice.
