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Who to Trust with Your Health in an Untrustworthy World | Jillian Michaels
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jillian michaels
Health has become a political football.
unidentified
Who funds these networks?
jillian michaels
It's like 70 plus percent pharma.
CNN had crowdsourced studies and they said, Kennedy's lying.
We have a ton of placebo-controlled trials on vaccines.
He's lying.
Of those vaccines that are on the schedule, despite the fact that none were pre-licensing, how many of them were designed to look at long-term safety?
Very, very few.
So they manipulate this.
dave rubin
What do you make of how the mainstream media is still treating Bobby Kennedy now?
jillian michaels
I'm like, oh my God, hold on.
The people who get the worst healthcare are not just the poorest, but the richest.
And this is one of the reasons I actually love Brian Johnson because he's a scout.
He's like, I'm going to do all this crap to myself.
If it goes wrong, you'll know.
I could tell you three guys that injected them into their spine and almost died.
When you have that much access to newer therapies, it can go wrong.
You are the science, you crazy.
Like, are you the science?
unidentified
*music*
dave rubin
All right, Jillian Michaels, lady with abs and amazing, what shade of green would we call that?
Moss, perhaps.
jillian michaels
You might nail that one better than me.
dave rubin
I like spectacular plants.
jillian michaels
It distresses me.
Gabriella Hearst suit, though.
Then I found out they dressed Kamala, Kamala.
I still can't pronounce her name right.
unidentified
Thank you.
Don't worry.
jillian michaels
I actually cannot recall because we've been through so many iterations of don't color this or that that I forgot which one is PC and which one isn't.
And then I'm like, oh, no.
Should I be wearing that designer?
dave rubin
This is not the Kamala, is it?
jillian michaels
No, but they did dress her.
But I love the designer.
So I just outed myself.
dave rubin
Is that a pantsuit?
We call that a pantsuit.
It's a beautiful pantsuit.
You would have been better qualified to have been president than Kamala or Kamala.
jillian michaels
Can you imagine?
Anyway.
dave rubin
I can.
I actually can imagine.
Because you've got a decent head on your shoulders.
That's why you're back in studio with me right now.
It's good to see you, my friend.
We're just going to talk about a little bit of everything that's going on in the world.
But before we started, you asked me how I'm doing.
And we were just going through both of our kind of fitness routines, which is that's your thing.
jillian michaels
Mental fitness as well.
dave rubin
What are you on?
Yeah, because everyone sees you like, oh, my God, she looks amazing.
The energy's there.
She's happy and glowing all the time.
unidentified
Okay.
dave rubin
What are you doing?
I'll have what she's doing.
jillian michaels
Okay, I take a methylated B.
take pharmaceutical grade fish oil morning and night I take 5,000 milligrams of D3 and K2 I do occasionally take a multi there's a brand actually that is not my company but they have this is this is controversial it has uh I think lithium oritate in it but a very low dose and there's some data to suggest it can actually help with cognitive function and
be neuroprotective over time but it's it's obviously a controversial ingredient extremely low dose um let's see i take collagen peptides i take creatine uh and then i like i cycle tons of other peptides yeah so i was on the wolverine pack like bpc what's that oh you've got adamantium in your blood i've got that would be very impressive no adamantium yeah uh bpc 157 yeah what are you doing that for i was doing that for for my knee a little bit i was doing it for a shoulder
and an elbow but then also i find that it helps me recover more quickly um and you were injecting yourself yep all that stuff i was gonna do tb500 i haven't done it yet i think when i cycle bpc that's when i'll start the little pack of it i cycle cerebralizing for cognitive function that i have shipped in from austria so i do that quarterly i mean it's like a whole freaking thing nobody can like nobody can do this that's where you just kind of you know have
nicotine gum in try to keep up with you and every time is it in right now oh yeah it's in there right now and people think like oh i didn't know she was a smoker yeah and not a smoker it's great for um actually potentially
preventing the onset of parkinson's which one's in my family delaying uh the progression of alzheimer's which i have a gene for unfortunately it also helps with people who have edd because it facilitates recall and processing speed.
So I do two milligrams of that five times a week in particular.
dave rubin
In your mouth.
So that's what you're doing right now.
You have two milligrams.
jillian michaels
How's that?
dave rubin
So it's just wedged in there and that's okay for your teeth and all that.
I know everyone's on this now.
unidentified
Everyone's taking nothing else in it except nicotine.
jillian michaels
Two milligrams.
I have one with no preservatives.
Chew it 10 times, put it in the side of your mouth.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
And you do, I hate to tell you, I do notice a significant difference.
And now, when I have very long days, and you get to that interview at the end of the day, you're like, oh my God, you feel it.
Caffeine has always been my cognitive enhancer of choice.
dave rubin
Yeah, me too.
jillian michaels
So I utilize that and the creatine and the nicotine to try to do these days that just go for 12 hours.
dave rubin
Wait, am I allowed to ask you how old you are?
I think, I think 51.
You're 51.
unidentified
Okay.
dave rubin
So I just turned 49.
So we're basically the same age.
It's not a crack over there.
jillian michaels
Well, this is an occasional Botox shot.
unidentified
Let's go.
dave rubin
Oh, okay.
unidentified
It's not getting too crazy, Dave.
jillian michaels
See, but that's why I still differ and I still get like the chemical acid peels on my face and all of that stuff.
But I do.
dave rubin
But that's why people like you, because you'll admit that's the people pretend they've done nothing.
jillian michaels
I avoid some things though.
Like I hate filler.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
Hate it.
It kills your face, literally.
And I've had great dermatologists and plastic surgeons just say, like, do not touch it.
Don't you?
dave rubin
Oh, yeah.
You're not afraid of Botox, which is basically like deadening your nerves, right?
jillian michaels
It's a huge in small doses, but filler really is hideous.
And if you talk to a plastic surgeon, they'll tell you how they open up faces and it's just a disaster in there.
And I need to be able to open up my face at some point without it being a disaster.
dave rubin
When are you going to open up your face?
unidentified
Only 60?
jillian michaels
What are these?
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
Yeah, but you got to be so careful with that stuff, man.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
So I really try to do very little when it comes to like food.
dave rubin
I've never done Botox.
I have one wrinkle today that I've seen.
But I'm like, but it's also, I think for a man, it's easy.
unidentified
You hate it.
dave rubin
It's just easier to age.
jillian michaels
The only man who's done plastic surgery and looked incredible is Brad Pitt.
dave rubin
I was going to say it's Brad Pitt.
unidentified
That's it.
jillian michaels
Every other one, you're like, oh, no.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
No.
unidentified
Yeah.
jillian michaels
Don't do it.
Men look so much better with like the lines.
dave rubin
What do you make of the psychological condition related to all of that?
That we are always chasing the fountain of youth and that we'll never really attain what we've once lost.
And that even someone like Brad Pitt, yeah, he does look great and he's, I don't know, they can check out.
Can you guys check how old he is?
He's got to be about 60, I would guess at this point.
jillian michaels
Oh, yeah.
dave rubin
And he's really, and if you look at pictures of him from five years ago, he looks significantly better now.
He's 61.
But always chasing that thing.
Or what's her name, Jenner, the mother who just had a gospel?
unidentified
Yeah.
jillian michaels
Steve Levine did that job.
Isn't that wild?
I know.
I was like, who is that guy?
Because in 10 years, he better be alive.
I'm like, making an appointment.
dave rubin
But is it even in 16 years old?
As long as you feel good, it shouldn't matter that much whether you've got the wrinkles or a couple extra creases.
And yet, we all of us disagree with you.
jillian michaels
However, with everything, I always say it's, it's a U-shaped curve.
So it's like, you could do something, you could do something, you could work on it, you could, you could maintain.
Then there's that Goldilock zone of just the right amount of tweaking and supplementing where you're, you're really holding your own.
You're aging well, right?
We're looking at health span, not just lifespan.
How long can you feel good for?
Like the reality of living to 200 for you and I is not there.
But living to 90 and picking up your grandkids at 85, I mean, that's what I'm hoping for.
dave rubin
And when you know, I damn well better be able to get there because I started late with kids.
So I really feel the pressure on that, which is partly why I made my health a priority in the last two years.
jillian michaels
When it starts to go wrong, you can see it.
You know, when people deform their faces, and there is a saying that not just aesthetics, but also health, the people who get the worst healthcare are not just the poorest, but the richest.
And this is one of the reasons I actually love Brian Johnson because he's a scout.
He's like, I'm going to do all this crap to myself.
If it goes wrong, you'll know.
And if it goes right, you'll know because a lot of it is controversial.
Like as I'm playing around with these different peptides, and you and I were talking about stem cells before, it is playing ball, sister.
I mean, it's pretty incredible.
dave rubin
I'm playing ball.
It's absolutely amazing.
It's going to be a month and a half ago.
jillian michaels
And I could tell you three guys that injected them into their spine and almost died.
And they're affluent, intelligent leaders in the health space.
So when you have that much access to newer therapies, at least in this country, and people are leaving the country, they get the, you know, it can, it can go wrong.
So I would say find that Goldilock zone where you feel good, but you're not, you're not going so far that you're compromising your health in one way or another, or you're disfiguring your body.
dave rubin
How do you decide who to listen to when it comes to all this stuff?
Because you're on the shortlist of people I listen to.
When I've had a few things, or David had something he called you, like it's getting, I think, almost increasingly, like we went from this period where there was the expert class that was kind of lying about everything.
Now we have like the new online expert class where every time you own open Instagram, everyone's got a new theory on everything and everyone's pushing something and telling you the secret to this and that.
And I'm finding it in some sense, it seems more difficult now, even though we definitely have better information, or at least we have more information.
You got to figure out what you're doing.
jillian michaels
That's the issue is you almost have too much information and it's conflicted information.
So for me, I always go to a variety of MDs and PhDs, depending upon which discipline is more relevant in nutrition.
I speak to PhDs in nutrition science.
There are a handful of experts that I defer to.
And it's like, listen, I happen to love Lane Norton.
He's a controversial character in my line of work.
And he'll give you a pass on things like artificial sweetener.
This is, you know, he and I have been back and forth on the research.
But Lane, you know, come on, like common sense would dictate no to aspartame.
unidentified
Right.
jillian michaels
But I generally think his advice is good.
He looks at human randomized control trials.
And then I'll back it up and talk to a group of other people.
And if there's consensus and I trust the experts and they're not conflicted, I make my decisions.
And generally, at the end of the day, if it doesn't pass the gut check, like chemical sweeteners made in a lab, like my common sense on this one is a no.
So another one that I just, I sat out completely.
I sat out the whole metformin game as a longevity therapy.
And I, listen, I love Dr. Peter Attiya.
I think he's brilliant.
I've read his book.
I've interviewed him three times.
But Peter is one of those guys like Brian Johnson who'll try ratmycin, who'll try metformin.
And I'm like, y'all, I'm going to sit it out because I don't see why as a healthy person metabolically, I would need this pharmaceutical.
Like, I don't really get it.
And I let them go down the path.
And then later, Peter got off of both and he's like, eh, diminishing returns.
So I kind of like, oh, you know, I'll wait a little bit, like methylene blue.
It's a fish tank cleaner, Dave.
I mean, you know, I understand.
dave rubin
So I'm not supposed to gargle a little bit.
Is that what you're telling?
jillian michaels
Listen, if you had cancer or a very specific condition metabolically that they were utilizing this for, then I would say, okay, speak to the relevant MD about this.
Look at the data.
What is it doing?
But as a healthy person, I'm like, I am not putting, I just, no matter how many experts, it does not pass my sniff test at this time.
At the same time, if I had advanced stage three breast cancer and they said I needed chemo, I would do chemo.
Now, is chemo?
No, chemo kills everything in the body.
But when you're sick, it's a completely different cost-benefit analysis.
So I do go to the PhDs and the MDs.
I don't, I don't do the influencer thing.
And in fact, the only advice that I've ever given people, I can cite the PhD or the MD and then tell you why I listened to that person and how many of them that I utilize to come to a conclusion and form a decision.
But there's something to be said for traditional education.
Without question, a lot of that research is paid for by the big pharma companies.
So I'll give you another example.
When I injured my back, Andrew Hecht, who ran HSS in New York, he may still, The top orthopedic surgeon at HSS worked on the world's most incredible athletes.
And I was like, oh, I'll just put, I'll just put stem cells in my back.
And he's like, no, we will not be doing that.
He's like, I have never seen one good thing come out of that.
Quite the contrary.
Only for me to then interview Josh Axe.
I don't know if this other doctor is out there with regard to what happened to him, but there's a very prominent, well-respected P, I'm sorry, MD out there who made the same mistake and almost died.
dave rubin
And if hex, really, stem cells not from their own body, I'm guessing.
jillian michaels
They were not.
dave rubin
And it's like, I did adipose from my own fat.
unidentified
Okay.
jillian michaels
Which can potentially be less effective, right?
And then if you're using cord blood and mesenchymal stem cells, but there's greater risk.
So where are you going?
And they get just so many different factors.
And you inject this stuff into your spine, it can go really wrong.
So this is where I had thought I was going to do that and then consulted with one of the best orthopedic surgeons whose specialty is lumbar spine.
And I took his advice.
I waited it out and tried everything else first.
dave rubin
And what solved it?
jillian michaels
So it was a combination of rehab with a PhD named Dr. Stuart McGill, who's incredible.
He has a great book for anybody with back problems called The Back Mechanic.
And then I also did, oh my God, Joe.
See, this is where the ghost is serving.
unidentified
Come on, David.
jillian michaels
Come on.
Come on.
dave rubin
Name drop it left and right.
It's in there somewhere.
jillian michaels
I know it.
The, oh my God, epidural, the epidural, anti-inflammatory.
And that helped get me standing.
And then over time, working with McGill, I was able to rehab my spine.
And then I learned how to practice really good spine hygiene.
So people with back problems, they still bend over all the wrong ways and twist and turn and do it.
I die when I see it.
I'm like, no, no, no.
dave rubin
Look, you're sitting nice and upright.
I'm always fidgeting.
My back's fine, but I'm always sitting in different positions and this.
jillian michaels
And I'm telling you, 80% of people will experience a discogenic issue.
And I have never in my life felt pain quite like that.
I would reserve only third-degree burns.
I would rather get bit by a great white shark.
I'd rather be shot.
I think I'd rather be stabbed.
And it is relentless pain.
And you can very quickly understand why so many people became addicted to OxyContin.
And that's who they targeted right off the bat: back pain.
dave rubin
Right.
I mean, that's what happened to Brett Favre, basically, and many others.
So, how much of this, all the stuff?
So, your 51-year-old in great shape, obviously, take care of yourself, all of that stuff.
But if we were to go back, say, 70 years ago, a 51-year-old probably would not have been worried about their cognitive health, meaning it wouldn't have, it wouldn't have come up.
Is that, do you think that would have been just pure like naivete or that they didn't know enough, or that now in the modern world, we're so slammed with information and endless scrolling that it is somehow breaking our brains.
So, that cognitively, without doing some extra stuff, perhaps we not are not as sharp as we were way back when.
jillian michaels
So, if you look at the way we were living 70 years ago or maybe a little farther back, it was more ancestral.
So, it was more ozone diets.
unidentified
It was the polyunsaturated fats, things like olive oil, hence the hence the pre-saturated foods or pre-processed foods, basically.
jillian michaels
You didn't have chemically extracted canola oil.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
You had olive oil and you had wild-caught fish that wasn't farmed and loaded with dyes and heavy metals and antibiotics.
So, the food functioned as medicine.
I think people got farther along into life with better health.
They weren't obese.
They didn't have all of these environmental and lifestyle factors that were aging them in an accelerated pace.
And there just wasn't the understanding of what Alzheimer's was or Parkinson's was.
And dementia ultimately in old age would be a foregone conclusion.
The issue is what's going to determine if you get it at 60 or 70 or 80 or if you're 90 and sharp is attack.
There are definitely genetic factors that play into that as well.
And I happen to have a ton of them, which is so unfortunate.
I'm just a genetic disaster.
unidentified
Like, I think both of them, I'm two feet tall.
jillian michaels
I've spent tens of thousands in laser hair removal.
I had my nose fix, my teeth were growing out of my eyeball.
unidentified
Like, there's no reason that I genetically needed to reproduce.
dave rubin
You said it all together quite nicely.
unidentified
Thank you.
jillian michaels
But it's like no small sum, you know?
So I think that the more aware we are now of genetic predispositions and the ability to intervene, those of us who can arguably do.
And I also notice work-wise, I don't rely as much on my quads anymore, but I need to be much quicker mentally.
We're constantly now getting in these debates with people on varying ends of the spectrum politically.
Health has become a political football.
unidentified
Yeah.
jillian michaels
And when you can't remember, not just epidural, but you're trying to make a point and tomorrow, you're like, oh, damn it.
I could have smashed that guy if I just remembered that one study.
So I really try to preserve my cognitive function and be more protective in light of all those things.
dave rubin
Just as an interviewer, one thing I've definitely noticed over the years is that people do lose their train of thought more than they used to.
A lot of times people will say something like, oh, I've got two things to say about that.
And they'll tell me one and then they have no idea what the second one is.
And I'm not saying I'm immune to it either.
But I have noticed that having done interviews for so long, that that kind of thing and that may be just, so it's, I get it, the genetic portion of it and whatever, but I think there's a modernity portion of it that we still are not grappling with properly.
unidentified
Just preparing for a week of work.
jillian michaels
I'm like, oh my God, hold on.
Let me go back and review all of those studies that corrupted the food pyramid because I'm going to have to speak about that on CNN and they're not friendly.
So it's like you pack your brain all with all of that.
And then, oh, you know, we're going to want to talk about what Kennedy did here, here, and here.
And we're so mad that he wants to remove fluoride from the water.
So then I'm, okay, hold on.
Let me go back and pull up all the research on fluoridated water for better or for worse.
And how does that, it just, you're constantly filling your brain every day.
And there's, there is a certain element of fatigue.
Like your eyes start to cross in your head because you're trying to hold all this different information about so many things when you're giving interviews on it.
It's one thing to learn it, note it and say like, okay, you know what?
I don't need fluoridated water and keep it rolling.
But when you have to answer questions about that and 50 other things, and I think we are, we're packing our brains for the scroll is endless.
dave rubin
Right.
And also people have other things going on.
See, if you're an expert in this, you can put a lot in your brain, but people can only take in so much of it, which is why I try to do like this bite size.
And like, we don't need to go into like every little granular thing of everything.
Or when people ask me about what I'm doing, like for me, it's sort of what you said about the sniff test with aspartame.
Like, I'm just eating more whole foods now.
Like I'm eating, you know, more organic protein and veggies and I'm just staying off the other side.
And it's just, I'm not a doctor, but it's just kind of what's working for me.
And I think if more people start doing that.
jillian michaels
But do you need to be in many of these cases?
If you came down with MS, this would not be like a, hey, let's defer to common sense.
dave rubin
Right, right.
jillian michaels
Find the right doctor.
And we would obviously try to utilize the most intelligent, progressive, but safe therapies for you.
That's not something you and I are going to defer to common sense on.
But when it comes to raising your kids or, you know, strengthening your relationships with your parents, your partner, your friends, taking care of your mental health and your physical health.
We've been doing this innately for tens of thousands of years as a species.
We should have like a general consensus on what works and what doesn't.
And I think this is where people get taken down rabbit holes due to conflict.
And I would simply try to say, these are the things you, if you're interested, these are the things you should do more homework on.
And I'm just trying to tell people what to think about when it comes to their health and where to get the right information.
Just a hepatitis B vaccine can Literally, just take people, throw them into such a spin about vaccines and this and that.
So it's like, how can you give them enough information that if they want to, they can effectively research it on their own and empower themselves to make the right decisions across the board in health?
That's really the goal.
dave rubin
What do you make of how the mainstream media is still treating Bobby Kennedy now?
I don't know if you saw, but over the last couple of days, there was a clip of Bill Nye, the science wears a bow tie and he went on CNN and basically was going after Bobby again for vaccines and basically saying there's no correlation between vaccine scheduling and autism.
jillian michaels
It's not that.
It's not that there is or there isn't.
unidentified
It's that we do not have the data.
dave rubin
That's exactly what we do.
jillian michaels
We don't have it.
dave rubin
And there's, but we do see some relatively looks like a relative connection, but I get your point, but that doesn't necessarily prove anything.
jillian michaels
It doesn't.
And this is, again, so nuanced.
Like maybe you saw RFK went on Tucker that he talked about a hepatitis B vaccine study back in the 90s, maybe, I think it was.
And there was like an 1,135% increased risk for children who are vaccinated with hepatitis B. Now, okay.
So they were looking at the collective impact of an additive called thimerazole, which was 50% mercury by weight.
That's no longer in the hepatitis B vaccine.
Nobody mentions that.
There are other adjuvants that are of concern, like aluminum.
And aluminum is put in certain vaccines to essentially alarm the immune system when the pathogen, like hepatitis B, is dead, not alive.
So how do you wake up the immune system and get it to pay attention to a pathogen that's dead?
unidentified
Well, how about a little bit of aluminum?
jillian michaels
Honestly, Dave, we don't know.
And CNN actually, now let's see if I can remember this because I did a whole thing about this.
CNN had crowdsourced studies.
And they said, Kennedy is lying.
We have a ton of placebo-controlled trials on vaccines.
He's lying.
So here are the different factors that you need to think about.
First of all, none of them were pre-licensure licensing of the vaccine.
They were post.
How many of these vaccines are actually on the childhood vaccine schedule?
unidentified
Because there's stuff like just random diseases out of Japan on there.
jillian michaels
I don't even think it was half, if I recall correctly.
Of those vaccines that are on the schedule, despite the fact that none were pre-licensing, how many of them were designed to look at long-term safety, not efficacy?
Like how long does it work for?
Not in eugenicity, meaning how effective was the body in mounting a response to it, but long-term safety.
Very, very few.
So when you end up going through all of these variables, Kennedy is still 100% right that none of the vaccines on the schedule used.
Oh, and I forgot to mention this.
How many of them used in inert placebo?
So this means saline.
Many of them used a placebo that was a previous vaccine.
It's called an active comparable.
So they manipulate this bullshit this way because the average person's like, oh, CNN crowdsourced and there's the study and it says placebo.
It doesn't say whether it was done pre-licensing.
It doesn't say whether it was done for long-term safety.
It doesn't say if it was done against inert placebo or active comparable.
So he's telling the truth.
He's telling the truth.
And the reality is we don't know.
And there should be nothing wrong with asking the questions and doing the research.
dave rubin
Well, that's the thing.
I'm always amazed by their lack of curiosity because let's say that Bobby's completely wrong about, just for the sake of argument for a second, let's say he's, Bill Nye is completely right.
CNN's right.
There's no connection between vaccines and autism.
Why is it that you guys are not curious at all about the rates of autism?
jillian michaels
Right.
dave rubin
But they're not.
They don't do another episode.
They're only interested in doing an episode on something that makes Bobby look bad, not on an episode, not doing an episode on why do we have these strange who funds these networks?
jillian michaels
It's like 70 plus percent pharma.
So, I mean, it is everything from, you know, Kennedy said that the fluoride by the chemicals, the chemical form of fluoride being added to the water to fluoridate it comes from industrial waste.
It does.
Google it.
Just simply put into chat GPT who makes money off fluoridating water.
It is a byproduct of fertilizer.
When they make fertilizer, instead of having to dispose of the waste, they add it to the water, which is a complete, we can go on and on and on from that.
That is the truth.
dave rubin
Isn't it kind of crazy?
Like when you see how they do those things, you see the byproducts or you see how they make chicken nuggets or how they make even just candy bars or whatever.
When you see like the complex, crazy ways that they do it, that so much of this is a byproduct of something or something that should have actually been thrown away.
And that's the stuff.
jillian michaels
Hazardous.
dave rubin
But it's kind of crazy to think that anyone even formulated this idea in the first place to put all this stuff in our food.
jillian michaels
There's so much stuff.
dave rubin
Like, I'm going to make a chicken nugget.
I know.
I don't really need much chicken.
Right.
Like, was the chicken nugget guy nuts?
unidentified
It's easy.
And it's just, it overwhelms people.
jillian michaels
And then when they're like, if you paint this guy with a crazy brush enough and you have these legacy sources of news that so many older individuals, arguably a lot of Gen X, all the boomers, and there's even a few of those silent generation people that are still alive.
My dad's the silent generation.
It came before the friggin boomers that have depended on the New York Times and CNN for so long that for you to say it could be compromised is blasphemous to me.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave rubin
What do you think?
So if we don't have a particularly reliable set of people, let's say at the mainstream level, which we are all on board, that now we have the thing that we're in.
And what do you think the responsibility is for those of us that do this to be truthful?
I'll give you an example that'll be a little personal to you.
I was watching a clip that you did on a on a different show where you were sitting with a couple of ladies and one of the ladies, I won't even mention her name, was spouting some complete nonsense about the Gaza AIDS situation.
And it was completely debunked later in the day.
I'm guessing that there was no correction issued or anything.
I knew when I saw the clip, I was like, I know this is not true.
It's so obviously going to be debunked.
It was fully debunked.
What do you think the responsibility is in general?
And I mean this for everybody.
I mean it for me.
I mean it for Rogan.
I mean it for you.
Yeah.
jillian michaels
Of Israel.
Here's the problem with this one for me for me personally.
dave rubin
I don't even, I don't even mean this specifically about Israel.
I mean, what is our responsibility towards the truth?
jillian michaels
But if I was to answer that honestly, that one is so deep and so complex and it is tied up with so much hatred.
unidentified
And you have to be so erudite to combat it.
jillian michaels
Like I watched the clip that you posted of the lady on Piers last night and who was so eloquent and articulate at explaining okay, Dee, I can't fight back.
I don't know.
And for me to go down that rabbit hole, I could never, I'm like, Jill, like interview experts, I had Barry Weiss come on my podcast to give some context.
But when I get, I personally get caught up in those moments, you're thinking like, well, I trust this news person.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
You know, Dave Smith has said the same thing.
And I happen to love Dave Smith.
I think he's a great guy.
We disagree on this issue, but he's so well versed and I'm not that when he tells you.
dave rubin
He's not particularly well versed.
jillian michaels
See, you know that.
I don't know that.
And this is one where I'm like, I am not going to become an expert on this.
I'm going to go to the Barry Weiss's.
I'm going to go to the Dave Rubens and say, give me the counter argument.
I do think that corrections need to be issued, but people are so caught up in their bias that they simply don't.
I try to.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave rubin
It's a problem.
There's just no mechanism for it.
Now, you know, we have community notes that's doing some version of it, but for the podcast world that's now, that now is the teacher, what could the mechanism be?
Like we decentralize and then we would need some kind of centralized fact-checking apparatus.
And that's not really what people want.
So it's just kind of the Wild West and we got to accept it.
jillian michaels
It is, but I think you have to take Agency.
And you know, recently, I god knows what this is going to look like.
The New York Times is doing a piece on me.
I'm sure it'll be a hit piece, but then at least I could like, oh, yeah, I'll feel like I'm accomplished.
dave rubin
Welcome to the club.
Front page of the New York Times.
It'll be all right.
unidentified
Oh my God, I'm so excited.
Okay, good.
I feel good about it.
jillian michaels
Like, is everyone on humor?
And so it's, it's my turn.
unidentified
And I, and I knew it probably, but you know, it's incoming because yes, I agree to it.
dave rubin
Oh, you agree?
jillian michaels
I agree to it.
And, and maybe it won't be.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave rubin
You know, maybe I've done, I've been part of those too.
That one I was not part of.
Sometimes I'm part of one.
jillian michaels
Maybe it won't do it anymore.
dave rubin
No, it will be.
One way, it has to be one way or another.
unidentified
They're not looking to elevate a dissenting voice.
jillian michaels
Yeah.
So, nevertheless, this journalist showed up to a few of my podcasts because I had recorded a couple same day.
And she criticized the fact that I didn't push back on different things.
And I said, but I'm not professing to be an expert here.
I'm learning from these guests.
I can't push.
I'm not a geopolitical expert.
I'm not an economist.
You know, I'm getting different perspectives.
And I will put people from different sides of the spectrum on all have Barry Weiss and I'll have Dave Smith.
And then the goal for the audience is to turn around and like you're going to have to do your own work on it.
And at the end of the day, you're going to hear different things.
For example, if we go back to the hepatitis B conversation, Kennedy said they did this research, they found an 1,135% increased risk of autism with hepatitis B vaccine.
And then they did five iterations of the study to bury the results the way they buried the results.
They kicked out older kids and used only younger kids who were too young to be diagnosed with autism.
Now, the CDC and the study's author came out and said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We expanded this study so significantly.
We looked at 140,000 kids.
We made it better.
It was all so, so much better and found no causal link.
Who are you going to believe?
Now you know what you need to do?
Now you need to look at the freaking study.
How old were the freaking kids?
unidentified
What was it?
jillian michaels
How did they do the study?
Blah, blah, blah.
And you'll get the answer.
unidentified
If I can see why some people just check out about if I had an incoming baby, though.
dave rubin
Yeah, so that's what I'm saying.
jillian michaels
I would do that.
I would take the friggin time.
And if I had a time machine, I would not have given my son.
My daughter was born in Haiti, but I would have not done the hepatitis B vaccine.
Except the issue, of course, is that once it's on the CDC schedule, it's essentially a federal mandate because most schools are like, oh, no, no, no, Vax, we're going to need those vaccination records.
Your kid can't come to school.
And now you're starting to see conservatives who are homeschooling their kids.
And that's one reason.
Indoctrination is another, but it's a wild picture.
dave rubin
So actually, that was my next question.
So if you were having kids right now, if you had a child that was going to be born tomorrow, what would you be doing?
Or not minimal.
jillian michaels
So, so what I would do is look at each of the vaccines and what are the pathogens that they're meant to immunize my child against.
Having had whooping cough at this point, which I was supposed to see you for dinner when I was getting over it.
Oh my God.
And thought it was reactive airway.
Until I, yeah, like having had that, a newborn getting whooping cough, there's a reason a child would die from this.
Adults have died from this.
I would 100% say, you know what?
The cost-benefit analysis here of my child getting whooping cough is going to be a pass.
Please vaccinate the kid.
Hepatitis B is a sexually transmitted disease that you also get from intravenous drug use.
So that's not going to happen.
And my ex, who gave birth to our son, did not have hepatitis B. So it's going to be a hard pass for me.
So that's the thing.
dave rubin
Right.
So that's the one that's very confusing to people because basically, if you're in a monogamous relationship and there's no reason to think that the mother has hepatitis B, there's really no way this kid's going to get hepatitis B unless the argument is, oh, when they're four, like they're going to be, here's the argument because I've really tried to understand it.
jillian michaels
They could step on a needle at a playground.
unidentified
Okay.
jillian michaels
They could interact with a family member that has hepatitis B and an open sore who will then put the open sore on the child's eyeballs.
I'm actually dead ass serious.
And I looked into, because of course I have to, I have to speak on this now, despite the fact that I'm not a vaccine scientist, but at least tell people what to look for.
You know, I'm not going to tell you what to think.
I'm going to tell you what to think about and where to do the research.
How many kids used to get in America used to get hepatitis B?
18,000 a year.
Okay.
Well, 18,000 kids, we don't want them to have hepatitis B. And obviously, that number has been virtually wiped out.
But how many tens of millions of kids are in this country?
With that said, of those 18,000, arguably they got it from mom.
Could you test mom?
unidentified
Right.
jillian michaels
Yes.
I mean, yes.
So.
dave rubin
So in this case, the argument isn't necessarily there's something wrong with the vaccine or something damaging with the vaccine.
It's just kind of like, why is there just like another thing?
unidentified
No.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
We don't know, Dave.
And when you look at when you actually did a whole video on this, there's a package insert for the vaccine and it will tell you what pre-licensing studies were done.
And the amount of days that they monitored the child for adverse events was five days.
Five days.
We don't know.
dave rubin
Do you?
jillian michaels
It just, we don't know.
And when you're taking this kind of a risk with a disease that your kid is probably never going to get, and if there is a risk, we can test for that risk before vaccinating them.
What ended up happening was Merck created the vaccine.
This is, this is, I don't have concrete proof of this.
This is what I've heard.
This is my opinion on it on the matter, but Merck was asked to create it.
And it was initially, this is fact, recommended for intravenous drug users and sex workers.
But that group of people that demography is not really interested in preventing disease.
So they didn't get it.
unidentified
Right.
jillian michaels
And Merck's like, we're losing our ass here.
Just FYI, we're getting killed.
So they lobbied the World Health Organization to make it a mandate.
They lobbied the CDC to get it on the schedule.
They funded the Every Child Buy Two campaign, which I think was headed by Rosalind Carter.
This is all true.
And now it's a guaranteed sale once it's on the schedule.
It is an $8 billion a year business projected to reach $13 billion by, I believe it was 2032.
We don't know.
dave rubin
So like, even I remember like the vitamin K one for kids to get their blood to coagulate, but your blood does coagulate by the eighth day.
So as long as they are not going to bleed in those first, in that first week, it's like, why are they rubbing this on their eyeballs?
And just like, and that just feels so strange.
jillian michaels
But see, it feels so strange.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
Now, now, mind you, if throughout history, you and I survived the plague.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
And we were watching people whose babies left right in the center.
And somebody came out and said, we've got a vaccine.
I mean, common sense would dictate, okay, this is killing kids.
It's killing kids right now.
There's a vaccine.
dave rubin
Right.
jillian michaels
A kid's going to cost-benefit analysis.
Even if it's a new vaccine, my kid's going to die.
Let me jab the kid.
For sure.
That is a choice that I would make.
COVID.
Kids don't die from COVID.
The data is there.
We know it.
Was it Burke's even came out?
I think it was on Peters and was like, yeah, I should have followed the science on that.
You are the science, you crazy bitch.
unidentified
Like, are you the science?
jillian michaels
And still, even after that, even after we have all of the data, we know it won't protect the grandmother, doesn't stop transmission.
Like, we know there's a greater risk of vaccine injury in youth than the risk of them dying from COVID.
And still, people bash Kennedy for suggesting it should be removed from the schedule.
And it is still available for any freaking parent who wants it.
dave rubin
You know, I was pretty, I'm very proud of my COVID track record.
And after two weeks to stop the spread, I was like red-pilled from that moment.
But the thing that really like solidified that there was no way in high hell that I was going to get the vaccine, even though everyone was under every pressure from family members or whatever it might be, is when they really were going after the kids, to me, I was like, this, this makes no sense because not only are kids not dying, but I, but I was trying to take it.
So what's really going on here?
What I felt was if they could get you to inject your kid with something that you don't know what it is, they own you forever.
Cause try to imagine the guilt that a parent would have.
And how many parents?
I know a lot of parents now that have a lot of guilt about they injected their kid with something because of social pressure.
jillian michaels
We didn't have a choice.
My ex didn't want to do it.
I'm like, they need to go to school.
Like California, they weren't, you know, they got to go to school.
We have to be able to have them travel.
They need a vaccine passport.
Can't walk into a restaurant.
I mean, you've seen Fauci famously brag about forcing people into the decision.
I never got them boosters, but we didn't have a choice.
dave rubin
And well, that's like, I mean, that's 90% true, right?
jillian michaels
Yes, you're right.
unidentified
You're right.
You could have.
You could have picked up or it felt like they would have to remove them from the system.
Yes.
Yeah.
jillian michaels
It felt like they would make life so incredibly difficult.
dave rubin
Yeah.
Which, what an unbelievably horrific position.
So do you think that basically we're either going to head to or maybe are in now some sort of brave new world version of all of this?
Well, there will be a certain set of people that will have the knowledge and the means and the community and support to live a certain more, let's say, healthy or holistic way.
And then there's just going to be this other set of people, which is going to be the bulk of the people.
So this is very brave New World or sci-fi that are just going to be in the system and they're just going to keep listening to the machine that's giving them vaccines and they're going to keep getting sick and they're not going to fix diets because they'll take the pill to do it and then they'll find out that the Ozempic shot is going to do this and all of that stuff.
And that really that will be the great divide of what humans are.
I think that's kind of, then you throw in a little AI stuff now.
I'm going real sci-fi and robots.
But like, that's kind of really what I see the divide, the incoming divide of humanity to be.
unidentified
Okay.
jillian michaels
There are incredibly intelligent people who have pushed back on the most common sense things.
I was doing an interview with a person from MIT and she was talking about how you need a truckload of red number three for it to have any deleterious health impact.
And I said, okay, first of all, have you considered all of the other toxins in your water, in your air, in your food?
And are you looking at the cumulative load of these things?
dave rubin
I mean, as a scientist, but you ever see the incredible shrinking woman with Lily Tomlin?
Like, that's what happens to her.
It's, she's using all of the cleansing.
You never saw it from like 1979.
It's an amazing movie.
She's just a housewife and she's using all of these things, the soap and the hair stuff and all these things.
And then she starts shrinking and she ends up this tall and get cancer.
jillian michaels
Yeah, that's the shrinking cancer.
unidentified
That's the equation right there.
And then the case then became, let's just say I'm wrong.
jillian michaels
And you've detoxified every other chemical from every other aspect of your life.
If there's beetroot powder, why are you arguing for petroleum-based food diet?
dave rubin
You'd be very taking you to the fridge after so you can see what we're making cupcakes for the kids.
It's beetroot powder.
It's protein to the flu.
jillian michaels
You know what the answer is?
Never Trump.
That's the answer.
I have fought with very intelligent people who have thyroid conditions over filtering fluoride out of their water because there's a potential link.
And you know why they won't do it?
Never Trump.
So people are going to dig in because of Kendi and Trump because they've made it political.
Right.
And then the one thing that does alarm me, and you'll know this better than me, you would put on the kind of topics we were going to discuss, a lot of the transgender athlete stuff going on, like UPAN and California.
unidentified
But the thing is, like all of these executive orders mean nothing.
jillian michaels
In four more years, where are we again?
None of this is settled law.
So while you and I can think, well, yeah, well, now we're not going to get the booster and we're going to have beef tallow and you can have your chemically extracted soybean oil until when the next president mandates it all over because none of it is moving through Congress.
dave rubin
No, that's why the executive action thing, I'm happy with what Trump's doing, but it is not a way to legislate.
What are we going to do?
unidentified
So at the time.
dave rubin
At that point, you just hope you hope that I think what the answer to that question is, is you hope that the culture has changed enough that enough people have come around so that at the end of the day, if you see fruit loops with red dye, or you realize that you can do it another way, you're going to do it the other way, that eventually that these things get disconnected.
Yeah, that these things get disconnected from the government.
That you can't assume that the government, because they pass legislation on beef tallow, is suddenly looking out for you.
jillian michaels
I mean, that's my hope: it's shows like yours putting out this information.
People can take agency, and corporate America will respond if you can impact their bottom line, even by a small percentage.
So, you know, Skittles doesn't want to remove the red number 40.
I mean, it's not freaking Nazi Germany.
unidentified
If they're not going to remove it, they're not going to remove it.
jillian michaels
And in all fairness, one of the spokespeople for the company was like, Well, you sell tobacco and you sell cigarettes.
You do, okay?
You want to poison yourself with this?
No problem.
But if another company and others are remove these things, hopefully a parent will go, well, hold on.
Like, there's still crap in this, but there's less crap.
So I'll buy this one.
Well, then Mars is going to change like that.
unidentified
Right.
dave rubin
Well, that's also the beauty of capitalism because the other one will be more expensive for a little while, but then hopefully people shift and then it starts going like this.
And then next thing you know, you're making actual property.
Well, that's another strange misnomer that people have: that somehow, if you don't have a lot of money, you cannot eat in a healthy way.
And look, I'm blessed.
So I'm not worried about that for myself.
But when I go to the grocery store, like, if you just buy like organic ground meat and you buy organic eggs and you walk out of there with, you know, organic arugula or something, like it's not expensive and you can walk out of there and eat well.
unidentified
They're going to tell you we don't have access.
jillian michaels
I just recently read a bunch of studies on the fact that food deserts are based on supply and demand.
People in that part of the country are not demanding those things en masse.
And it is also rigged.
So one of the things that Kennedy is doing is working to remove, you know, it's going, we have like, I think, six states that have done waivers to remove soda and junk food from Snap.
dave rubin
And then you see this crazy pushback against that, by the way.
Don't tell me what I can do.
jillian michaels
Yep.
dave rubin
And it's like, well, actually, if you're going to be on the government dole and now we're also going to have universal health care for everybody, then it kind of is our business.
That's I, when Obamacare was coming out, that's what I kept thinking.
Well, all right, you want us, you want everybody to pay into something for everybody.
Well, then fat guy over there.
jillian michaels
I don't want to pay for your cancer treatment or your diabetes medication.
So how about no soda?
unidentified
You know, you can do this on the government.
jillian michaels
Exactly.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
Exactly.
But the reality is that, you know, talking about the food pyramid, when you look at what made refined grains the basis of a healthy diet, well, the USDA was lobbied by the wheat lobby, the corn refiners association, the vegetable oil lobby, because again, chemically extracted soybean oil is far more profitable than grass-fed beef towel.
That's that's not going to work.
So these guys make hundreds of billions on big ag subsidies, our tax dollars.
They are big ag makes, I'm sorry, hundreds of billions off of our money in our subsidies, tax subsidies.
But then big food grabs these contracts.
And that's the part that's so nuts.
So like, you can't mess with this food pyramid.
This is how we feed our kids.
This is how we feed our soldiers.
unidentified
And they're like, oh my God, you're admitting that you feed them pure process poison.
So they lobby the USDA to say this is the way it goes.
jillian michaels
And then food stamps, I think Coke, I think 40% of its income is from food stamps.
dave rubin
God, I mean, even if you're doubling that accidentally, that's wild.
So they get real sugar in our Coke.
You have to go to Mexico for the real sugar.
jillian michaels
It's the corn syrup.
dave rubin
You'll love this one, just as you were saying that it reminded me.
So there's a new restaurant that opened up that's quite close to your little spot here in Miami that Phoenix and I went to the other day.
And it's a steak joint.
And they tell you when they bring you the steaks that the steaks are finished in beef tallow.
And that sounds, that sounds pretty good.
jillian michaels
Okay.
dave rubin
So then he asked, What do you make the fries in?
And they make the fries in canola oil.
And it's like, even that sort of thing right there, it's like we're in this weird in-between process where they're like, here's your steak finished in beef tallow.
unidentified
And also, here's your bowl of evil.
jillian michaels
No, no, no, no, you're not going to ask that.
It's just, and it, and that one's also conflicted because they're like, seed oils aren't that bad.
unidentified
Seed oils into themselves aren't that bad.
It's a chemical extraction process.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
So people are like, I saw somebody say they're not that bad and it doesn't make sense.
It's just canolas.
That's the part where it's, there's so many levels of bullshit because people will tell like their version and omit the facts.
And then these guys will tell their version and omit the facts.
Like, sure, canola seed is not the devil, but the process they use to extract the oil is bad for you.
Watch a and then watch a video of it on YouTube and you'll just, you'll like throw up in your mouth and never want it again.
dave rubin
That's why I can only have the pure chicken tenderloin now and not a chicken nugget.
I want a tenderloin.
It is just the tenderloin and you want to fry it fine, hopefully in beef tower, but I'll eat that.
But the nugget, I just don't do it anyway.
Let me ask you something else altogether.
I guess it's ancillarially related.
We're holding this interview for a couple of days, but tonight you are going on CNN.
We talked a little bit about the mainstream media.
What, so I've never been invited to go on CNN.
jillian michaels
This is the first time.
dave rubin
Yeah, I used to try to get on for my books and things like that.
I don't care to go on at this point.
I'd rather mock them and everything else.
But what do you like?
What's your angle in the idea of someone that's outside of mainstream going back in?
Because there's this weird moment where they realize we're bigger than them.
So they kind of need some of us.
Then you have some of these people that cross over the other direction too, meaning they'll suddenly do some podcasts.
But it's that tension between the old and the new there.
But like, what's your reason?
jillian michaels
I will talk to anyone.
Yeah.
Not only will I talk to anyone, I come from legacy media.
So I still appreciate it.
I still think there's value in it.
I still think people are showing up there.
I think that they're taking those clips and putting them in new media, posting them on YouTube, posting them on X and so on.
So I think there's value for the people who watch it.
I think there's value for those of us who contribute to it.
Is it a necessity?
No.
Both of us have come this far without it.
But it does feel a bit like you're fighting for souls.
Now, the game can definitely be rigged in those environments.
I did do CNN one time and it was about Ozempic.
And I had like they black out the screen.
And I thought it had something to do with like pant sales going down.
So I was prepared to sort of discuss the economics of obesity, but then it ended up being a debate.
No one told me and I couldn't even see the person I was debating.
And I was completely caught off guard.
And I was like, oh man, this was a freaking setup fully.
Now, I'm not suggesting that's what's going to happen.
I've watched Abby Phillips and she has Scott Jennings on and bajan Gar Sargon.
You named a few awesome people center or conservative.
My only hope is that, you know, look, the setup will come.
If you ask me questions about Putin, I'll give you an opinion.
I'm certainly not an expert on the subject matter.
So if you, if you catch me so far out of my lane, you know, I'm a little, I'm wondering how that's going to go.
If it's something within my wheelhouse, I can speak confidently.
I can crush anybody, you know, that steps to me with a counter argument.
That said, all I can simply do is say, this is not my wheelhouse.
I'm not an expert in this as a citizen of the country.
dave rubin
Like if I get roped into the birthright citizenship, by the way, I mean, most of those people are not experts in anything.
They're political pundits.
jillian michaels
Like, honestly, if you wrote me into this whole birthright citizenship thing, as an American citizen, common sense is going to tell me that anchor babies and birthing tourism is exploiting our system here.
And we should revisit it.
Like, I can't sit here and argue if Trump has the executive power to do this.
It seems like he doesn't.
And then there is that loophole of like, okay, you pulled the class action thing.
You did that fast and you undermined the Supreme Court here on these nationwide injunctions, but legally you can do it.
So smart, cynical.
But you can do, okay.
Like, I think if you, if you ask me to be a constitutional political piece, right?
Yeah, but as a citizen, like, I don't like it.
unidentified
Yeah.
jillian michaels
I don't think it's cool.
You know, you didn't see me taking my ex over to Europe 13 years ago and having her drop the kid there for dual citizenship.
And I would love to be able to live in Paris, although I don't know what the politics are now.
dave rubin
No, I don't think you're going to be able to do that.
jillian michaels
Okay, but I would like certain places in Europe.
I'd love to move freely, get a second home.
Like, it sounds great.
But I can only address it that way.
So it remains to be seen if it's like a smear campaign, kind of like the New York Times, or if it'll be an open and honest conversation where we're listening to different ideas.
unidentified
Right.
jillian michaels
And I don't know.
I'm somewhat nervous about brain, Scott Jennings.
dave rubin
Yeah.
jillian michaels
So I can tap.
unidentified
Can I tap out?
I'd like to phone a friend on this question regarding tariffs.
Can I, do you mind if I?
jillian michaels
Yeah, we'll see.
dave rubin
Yeah, I hate to tell you, but it's probably the former.
jillian michaels
I know.
dave rubin
But the other thing is, I mean, I think what's happened with them also is that because they're so purging viewers, they need some of us to be let in because that then gets some action going online.
So it's not like they're necessarily bringing you in to take you out because it's like, oh, bring her on because people like her.
She has traction online.
jillian michaels
You know, I hope not.
There's certain things where I feel confident because I have done so many interviews with people about it.
It could be tariffs.
Like, I feel like I'm ready to have that one.
I'm like, okay, I've done my homework on the reshoring and the national security stuff and like this and that.
And I think I can, like a scale of one to 10, I can do a four, which I, you know, but I think everybody else might be at like a six or a seven.
So, you know, I'm not the person you should be asking, but if you're asking me an opinion as an American citizen, I'm going to, I'm going to give it to you.
And I think that's where I have value and anything outside of my wheelhouse.
dave rubin
Did we do everything we were supposed to do?
jillian michaels
I hope so.
unidentified
Did we?
jillian michaels
We didn't smash the trans athlete thing, but I definitely alluded to it.
Do we need to?
Again, do you have eyes?
Does it seem fair?
dave rubin
Realize your boys are different than girls.
jillian michaels
They are.
unidentified
All right.
dave rubin
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